In August the Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin,visited the long-awaited A11 project to see how work wasprogressing. His visit formed part of a wider tour of the region insupport of investment in infrastructure across East Anglia.
Mr McLoughlin was joined by Matthew Hancock, MP for West Suffolk,and Elizabeth Truss, MP for South West Norfolk, who were given aguided tour of the new A11 road and visited the B1112 underpass fora close up of construction work.
Delighted by the speed of progress Mr McLoughlin commented:”I am really impressed with what I have seen and when the work isfinished it is going to make a tremendous difference to this region – it’svery encouraging.”
Ms Truss spoke of the huge importance the scheme would have ontowns such as Thetford and said: “Businesses here are going to bethe main beneficiaries of this [scheme] and I know that many in thetown have already started to prepare for when it’s completed.”
The project is currently on track to complete by winter 2014.
