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A11 Fiveways to Thetford Improvement
A11 Fiveways to Thetford Improvement
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The Project
About the Scheme
The Highways Agency propose to improve the A11 between the Fiveways roundabout at Barton Mills, Suffolk and the roundabout at the southern end of the Thetford Bypass, Norfolk, a distance of 14.8km.
The A11 is of dual carriagway standard from the M11 to Norwich, except the section between Barton Mills and Thetford. It provides an important link between Norfolk and the rest of the East of England.
The proposed improvement would be on-line widening, except for the Elveden Bypass,
Key features of the new road include:
- Improvement to Fiveways roundabout
- Improved visibility on the approach to Fiveways roundabout
- An underpass to take the B1112 beneath the new road
- The B1106 would pass over the new Elveden Bypass at a two-level junction east of Center Parcs
- Access bridges to assist farming operations at Canada Drive and Chalk Hall Farm
- A Non - Motorised User (NMU) underpass for walkers, cyclists, and horse riders, adjacent to the War memorial
The Need for the Scheme
- It is the last remaining single carriageway section on the strategic M11/A11 route to Norwich
- Congestion problems particularly during holiday periods
- Conflict between fast moving trunk road traffic and slow moving agricultural traffic
- Overtaking difficulties
- Difficulties joining the trunk road from side roads
- Adverse environmental effects through Elveden
What are we trying to achieve?
The main objectives of the scheme are to:
- Complete the dualling of the A11 between the M11 and Norwich.
- Reduce congestion and provide additional capacity
- Restrict access onto the trunk road
- Improve road safety
- Provide a bypass for the village of Elveden
- Improve journey time reliability
- Minimise the impact of the improved road on the surrounding Breckland, a designated area of important landscape quality and a special landscape area.
- Develop a scheme that is well engineered and economically viable.
