• Have you travelled along the All lately? If you
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have, you will know why the Institute of Transport Administration is stirring it up with Peter Bottomley, Road and Traffic Minister in an endeavour to have it improved, along with most of the other roads in East Anglia, which, to quote Peter Green, the Institute of Transport Administration's lively national secretary in his best ex-RAF jargon, is a pain in the tailplane.
Apart from it being in a bad physical state, its carriageways have a nasty habit of going from dual to single, and vice versa, with the resultant in
evitable bottlenecks, frustrations and danger.
According to Green, Lynda Chalker did some "piecemeal" improvements after he wrote to her last year "and God bless her for that". But it wasn't enough.
Following some strong, but so far unheeded local pressure by the IoTA's local Norwich, branch Green wrote to the Ministry again; got an acknowledgement of the receipt of his letter, but that's all. His argument is that there is need for a strategic look at all the roads in East Anglia. in particular the All.