Tag: Kings Dyke
Combined Authority Clears Way for Removal of King’s Dyke Level Crossing
The Combined Authority Board has agreed £1million of subject-to-approval funding from the Medium-Term Financial Plan for the eagerly-awaited closure and removal of the Kings Dyke level crossing. The MTFP has a subject to approval amount of £2.1m for Kings Dyke level crossing closure and the drawdown will be spent in the current financial year. A […]
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Mayor joins celebration as new King’s Dyke bridge opens and first drivers go across
Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Dr Nik Johnson today rejoiced in the ‘triumph’ of partners and colleagues whose work will end the delays that snarled up road travel between Whittlesey and Peterborough at the King’s Dyke Level Crossing. For some fifty years, people around Fenland and the market town of Whittlesey have campaigned for a […]
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Time capsule looks to the future as partners celebrate progress at King’s Dyke
Looking to the future and making the long wait for a new bridge at King’s Dyke a thing of the past was the job in hand this week when a time capsule about the landmark project was buried at the site to inform generations to come. The bridge over the Ely to Peterborough railway line on the A605, is part of the King’s Dyke Level Crossing scheme which also entails building a […]
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Combined Authority reveals plan for the year ahead
An important milestone has been reached as the 12 key projects that will be the focus of activity throughout 2019/20 at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority were agreed. The new Business Plan was approved at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Board Meeting this week (30th January 2019). It sets out the 12 key […]
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Kings Dyke Crossing to move to construction phase
Funding for the new Kings Dyke level crossing project has today (October 31) been approved by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority and the project can now progress to the construction phase. The authority has agreed to provide funding contribution of up to £16.4m over the original £13.6m allocation to enable the scheme to progress […]
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