• This is the main artery from the North and Midlands to the East Coast for commerce and commuters.
• The volume of traffic at peak hours slow traffic to a crawl between the dualled sections at North Tuddenham & Easton, as evidenced by the traffic flow forecast page on the ‘Highways Agency website¹’
• Even the slightest RTA (road traffic accident) or breakdown on the single carriage sections can close the entire road.
• The cost of Emergency Services attending RTA’s is escalating and given time will overtake the cost of improving the road. This is false economy and a waste of tax payer’s money. (It is estimated in the last 3 years to be in access of £3.8M).

• Safer access to the A47 from our villages
• Crossing the A47 from our villages

• Roundabout on the large staggered crossroads of Wood Lane and Berry’s Lane Honingham allowing SAFER right turns (north to west & south to east) and crossing of the A47 at all times from our villages. The junction is large enough to take a roundabout the same size as the one at the western end of the Easton By-pass, and has a long visibility from both east & west on the A47.
• Wood Lane up-graded to take two-way heavy goods vehicles that currently have to use roads of nearby villages to go to and from industrial sites.
• No Right turn onto the A47 to Easton from the Mattishall Road...... providing proposed roundabout is constructed.

• As can be seen from the Highways Agency website, the traffic is already slowed below 30mph at peak times. Speed restrictions are unnecessary as pushing two lanes into one already slows the traffic. The lack of gaps in the traffic flow could lead to frustration and the possibility that commuters will take risks to get out of the junctions. Cameras will be a distraction.

• This will bring the flow of traffic to a complete standstill and will have a knock on effect for a considerable way back.
• The proposed roundabout will allow a steady flow of traffic
  

1/ “The flow for 8 November is forecast to be less that 30 mph eastbound between 0800-1000 and again between 1000 and 1100. Between 1300-1400 and 1500-1600 the speed shown is 30-50 on both carriageways, after which it is shown at over 50 mph westbound. Turning right onto the road at that time will be extremely hazardous. Only between 2100-0700 is the speed consistently > 50mph”.