A14 work on hold after 16-year wait
And talking of cuts. Aren't we always?
(the Lib Dem who replaced David Laws as Chief Secretary to the Treasury) has revealed that development for , so very, very, very long in the planning, is now on hold saving the government £1.1 billion.
Back in 1994, Lord MacGregor, the former MP for South Norfolk and the then Secretary of Transport, hailed plans to sort out this road from the Midlands to the east's ports.
Yes 1994.
Now we hear it's off. Well, to be exact, the project hasn't been cancelled but its fate now rests with the spending review.
The plan was to upgrade 22 miles between Cambridge and Ellington and transform the congested stretch into a six-lane super highway.
Transport, the whipping boy of many a government, takes another hit.
Having just stepped from tram to high speed train in Europe, the irony is not lost on me.
Astonishingly, survives, with its perilous £80 million price tag intact - for now.
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