Tag: Roads
Mayor Dr Nik Johnson’s letter to Transport Minister, Mark Harper, to push for further details on Ely Junction, A10 and A1139
Dear Secretary of State, I am writing to follow up on the Prime Ministers Network North announcements regarding A10 and A1139 improvements and Ely Area Capacity Enhancements at Conservative Party Conference. Such news has been met warmly by residents in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and I am keen to understand the wider details around these welcome […]
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Green Nene: Have your say on walking and wheeling bridge
Peterborough residents and visitors are being invited by Peterborough City Council to share their views on the proposed walking and wheeling bridge across the river at Fletton Quays. The active travel crossing over the Nene will be for non-motor vehicles. It will offer a safer and greener alternative to the busy main road for pedestrians, […]
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New A1260 footbridge completed and ready for active travel
A brand new footbridge was completed this week, one part of a multi-million pound scheme to reduce congestion and offer improved routes for active travellers trying to negotiate one of Peterborough’s busiest traffic bottlenecks. Opening to the public on March 27th, the replacement footbridge over the A1260 Nene Parkway in Longthorpe is one part of […]
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Win-Win for Peterborough as Fengate savings put A1260 Jct 3 on the road
Members of the Combined Authority board have unanimously approved a proposal to put an underspend of £3,441,880 from Peterborough’s Fengate Access Study budget towards building the city’s A1260 Junction 32/3 project. The Board’s decision gives the go-ahead for contracts to be signed and the use of the Transforming Cities Fund allocation for construction of the […]
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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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Further £300K allocated to North Cambridgeshire Training Centre by the Combined Authority
The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Board have voted to allocate a further £347,000 to the North Cambridgeshire Training Centre (NCTC), Chatteris. The money is additional to £3.16m of Local Growth Funding the Business Board awarded the training centre in January 2020. NCTC, which has been built on land owned by Stainless Metalcraft in Chatteris […]
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£6 million from Combined Authority to take A141 St Ives Improvements forward
The Board of the Combined Authority today voted to take the A141 St Ives Improvement scheme up to the next level by putting £6 million to fund the Outline Business Case, or OBC. Unanimous approval from all members followed a wholehearted recommendation by the Combined Authority’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee. On July 13th, the committee […]
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Combined Authority vote clears the way for A10 improvement
Members of the Combined Authority’s transport and infrastructure committee this week voted to recommend the Board release £2m funding from the Department for Transport for the delivery of the A10 Outline Business Case. Members also voted to recommend that the Board agrees reprofiling the remaining budget from 2021-22 to 2022-23. The Combined Authority will make […]
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New Year start to A1260 Parkway construction, thanks to Combined Authority
At today’s meeting of the Combined Authority Board, members approved the Full Business Case for Peterborough’s A1260 Nene Parkway Junction 15 – and signed off millions of pounds to get construction on the project started. Members approved the forecast construction cost of £8.014m, including re-profiling the project budget to ensure work can go ahead. Wildflowers, […]
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A141 Huntingdon and St Ives road plans will go ahead together, Combined Authority reveals
A141 Huntingdon and St Ives road plans will go ahead together, Combined Authority reveals businesses with an interest in options to improve the A141 at Huntingdon and the road network around St Ives, Mayor of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, Dr Nik Johnson, has asked Combined Authority officers to take forward streamlined plans that advance the improvement […]
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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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Green Clean Nene – Combined Authority brings A1260 Parkway Junction 15 a step closer
Helping people walk to and from green spaces and enjoy connected active travel options were key considerations when the Combined Authority’s transport and infrastructure committee this week gave their support to ensure construction work starts as planned at Nene Parkway in January. Chaired by Mayor Dr Nik Johnson, the committee unanimously approved the Full Business […]
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March plans can move forward thanks to unanimous vote by Combined Authority transport group
Showing their wholehearted approval of the collaborative work under way to make life better for people in the Fenland market town of March, the Combined Authority’s transport group this week recommended the drawdown of £1.51 million to push plans on to detailed design. In the unanimous vote, members of the Transport & Infrastructure Committee noted […]
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Have your say on plans to improve Peterborough’s A16 Norwood
A public consultation was launched today (Monday, 1 November) which invites Peterborough residents and road users to have their say on plans to improve the A16 Norwood and A16/A47/Welland roundabout. The six-week consultation asks people to complete a survey with their views on plans to improve this stretch of road, which suffers from significant congestion and delays during peak hours. The road scheme is […]
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Revamped Local Transport Plan to consider improvement to digital infrastructure
A bold plan to bring together Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s transport and digital infrastructure, to provide for better connectivity in a clean and green refresh of the Local Transport Plan, has been approved. Making explicit the Combined Authority’s commitment to deliver truly integrated connectivity to all communities with a drive towards a net zero carbon future, […]
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A505 Royston to Granta Park Strategic Growth and Transport Study
Members of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority transport and infrastructure committee today heard how cooperation between the county council, the Greater Cambridge Partnership and the Combined Authority will be vital in taking the A505 Royston to Granta Park scheme to the next stage. Members were briefed on the progress of the first stage of […]
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We want bikes and a bypass, Hunts people tell A141 planners
Road safety, congestion, air quality, protection from rat-running and concerns about HGVs were all high on the agenda of people responding to the A141 Have Your Say survey run by the Combined Authority to gather public opinion on the transport options around Huntingdon. Clawing roadspace back from motor vehicles for cyclists and walkers also topped […]
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Combined Authority wins £2m for A10 dualling study
Bringing a safer, greener A10 a little closer, the Combined Authority’s transport and infrastructure committee today heard that central Government has agreed to fund a study into potentially dualling Cambridgeshire sections of the crucial but over-burdened road. The committee noted the Department for Transport’s decision to fund the Outline Business Case for A10 dualling and […]
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£1m improvements to A142 Lancaster Way roundabout at Ely finish on schedule
Highway improvement work to the A142 Lancaster Way roundabout finishes on schedule this week. The £1m scheme was reopened to traffic on Tuesday afternoon, following its 13 weeks delivery programme to the end of April. The improvement works, which started in February, have provided two-lane entries for the A142 approaches to the Lancaster Way roundabout […]
Find out morePeterborough road users get say on Combined Authority-funded plans for greener, safer city junctions
Peterborough residents and road users can now give their opinion on Combined Authority-funded plans to improve two major Peterborough city chokepoints, freeing up access for cyclists and pedestrians, and easing traffic jams and delays. Headed by Mayor James Palmer, the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, has given Peterborough City Council funding to prepare a Full […]
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Mayor’s ‘road-trip’ shares A10 options with public despite Covid
Thanks to a ‘virtual road-trip’ which went live this week, people can have their say on the shortlist of options being considered to improve the Ely-Cambridge stretch of the A10, despite Covid-19 safeguards restricting public gatherings. Although the public consultation demanded by statute will not be held until much later this year, Mayor James Palmer […]
Find out moreA141 Options Work Scrap Controversial Huntingdon Third River Crossing
Today Members of Huntingdonshire District Council, Cambridgeshire County Council and representative Ward Members on the A141 and St Ives Steering Group were presented with the findings of the emerging results of work completed by Cambridgeshire County Council who have been working on options for the A141 including the controversial proposal for a Huntingdon Third River […]
Find out moreMayor welcomes news of the successful bid for safety barrier replacement on the A15 improving safety and saving Peterborough Tax Payers nearly half a million pounds
Peterborough City Council have been successful in their bid for funding for A15 Vehicle restraint system (Safety Barriers) replacement work along nearly 8km of the A15, part of Peterborough’s parkway system. The Department for Transport will provide a maximum funding contribution of £ 419,000 by 31 March 2020 towards an estimated total scheme cost of […]
Find out moreNew events announced for public to have say on Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s transport future
Three new consultation events have been announced for members of the public to have their say on the future of the area’s transport network to 2050. The new events form part of the ongoing consultation for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s developing Local Transport Plan (LTP) and will take place in September in Buckden […]
Find out moreMayor James Palmer welcomes bids to Government to dual A10 and build key Peterborough junction
Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough James Palmer has welcomed news that the Combined Authority’s bids to dual the A10 between Cambridge and Ely and to build a new road junction to facilitate the new University of Peterborough, have been submitted to Government. The Combined Authority, through the region’s Sub-national Transport body, England’s Economic Heartland, has […]
Find out moreMayor James Palmer welcomes news that A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet road upgrade works can begin in 2021
News that Highways England will begin work on its major A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet road dualling scheme in 2021 and not 2022 has been welcomed by Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough James Palmer. He met with officials from Highways England on March 5 to be updated on progress and to follow up on […]
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Mayor James Palmer welcomes plans to improve journeys on A1, A421 and A428
Mayor of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, James Palmer, has welcomed the unveiling of the propose route for a major new road and junction at Black Cat. The plans, proposed by Highways England, mean drivers using three of the busiest roads in east England are set to benefit from a major upgrade creating a new […]
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Mayor James Palmer welcomes ‘single route approach’ as significant step forward in accelerating plan to fully dual A47 in Cambridgeshire
Mayor James Palmer has described the Combined Authority Board’s approval of a comprehensive, single route approach to dualling the whole of the A47 in Cambridgeshire as a significant step forward in the long wait for the road to be upgraded. A paper presented to the Board on Wednesday (October 31) also described the economic case […]
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‘It’s about delivering for people’: Mayor James Palmer welcomes Ely Southern Bypass opening
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayor James Palmer has hailed the opening of Ely Southern Bypass, describing it as a significant boost to residents and the economy of East Cambridgeshire and beyond, after years of suffering the effects of delays and congestion on the busy A142 route. In his previous role as leader of East Cambridgeshire District […]
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