Push for better Norfolk roads
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• Most of Britain's transport associations, including the RHA and the FTA, have pledged their support to a new campaign for better trunk road links in Norfolk.
The campaign, entitled Trunk Roads, the need for Action, is being spearheaded by the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
Chief Executive Officer John McGhee says that Norfolk's trunk roads have fewer stretches of dual carriageway per kilometre than any other county in England.
He hopes to persuade the Government that many stretches of trunk road in Norfolk, including the A47, the A10, the A17 and All should be turned into dual carriageways.
McGhee says: "East Anglia emerges very clearly as the English region least served by dualled trunk roads, now and currently projected. Kings Lynn, Yarmouth and Boston are the only three major ports in England and Wales not served by the national dual-carriageway network." Supporters of the campaign include the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the English Tourist Board, Associated British Ports, the RAC, the AA, the RHA, the CBI, the British Roads Federation and the Freight Transport Association.
fl Despite the recent announcement by the Government that it intends to widen the M25 to four lanes each between Junctions 11 and 13 (CM, Aug. 23), the British Road Federation says that
there are other sections of the orbital motorway which will experience congestion and should also be widened.
It claims the section between the M4 and Al(M) will soon be handling too many vehicles and that the eight kilometres between the M4 and M40 should be rebuilt to four lanes each way.
According to the BRE, the Department of Transport already owns the necessary land and has built the bridges over the motorway to accommodate four lanes each way.