| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games 12:06 - Oct 14 with 2169 views | MaySixth |
National Highways : October 14th 2024
We've completed our project
We’ve now removed all of the temporary traffic barriers, cones, and speed limit reductions on the A12 between junction 25 at Marks Tey and junction 26 at Stanway.
Our road reconstruction work is now finished, and all lanes are now back to operating at the national speed limit. Please drive carefully while adjusting to the change of speed.
https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/east/a12-junction-25-marks-tey-to-junct |  |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 12:13 - Oct 14 with 2101 views | BlueRaider |
So to resurface approximately 2 miles of road has taken 2 years and cost £36.9m
How does it take so long ?
At that rate it would have taken over a century to build the M25 ! |  |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 12:16 - Oct 14 with 2072 views | Blueschev |
I've been driving for 25 years and I'm not sure I can remember a time when there wasn't roadworks on the A12. It must be a first? |  | | |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 12:51 - Oct 14 with 1892 views | EJP |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 12:16 - Oct 14 by Blueschev |
I've been driving for 25 years and I'm not sure I can remember a time when there wasn't roadworks on the A12. It must be a first? |
Fear not! There are plans to widen the A12 from J19 to J25, and if it wasn't for an unsuccessful legal challenge it would have started ...
https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/east/a12-chelmsford-to-a120-widening-sc |  | | |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:13 - Oct 14 with 1794 views | ghostofescobar |
I drove down to Ipswich at the weekend, and was awestruck that the road was clear! I guess that not only illustrates what a great thing it is for the road to be done, but how sad my life is! Hitting those roadworks both ways for over 2 years has been a bloomin pain for every home game. |  |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:26 - Oct 14 with 1699 views | MaySixth |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:13 - Oct 14 by ghostofescobar |
I drove down to Ipswich at the weekend, and was awestruck that the road was clear! I guess that not only illustrates what a great thing it is for the road to be done, but how sad my life is! Hitting those roadworks both ways for over 2 years has been a bloomin pain for every home game. |
100% been horrific | |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:28 - Oct 14 with 1689 views | AlanG296 |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 12:13 - Oct 14 by BlueRaider |
So to resurface approximately 2 miles of road has taken 2 years and cost £36.9m
How does it take so long ?
At that rate it would have taken over a century to build the M25 ! |
If only that were true. Local paper reported a few months ago already £11,000,000 over budget. | | | |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:28 - Oct 14 with 1686 views | MaySixth |
Oh dear | |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:46 - Oct 14 with 1636 views | SitfcB |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:13 - Oct 14 by ghostofescobar |
I drove down to Ipswich at the weekend, and was awestruck that the road was clear! I guess that not only illustrates what a great thing it is for the road to be done, but how sad my life is! Hitting those roadworks both ways for over 2 years has been a bloomin pain for every home game. |
If you drove down to Ipswich why did you drive up the A12?  |  |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 14:31 - Oct 14 with 1480 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
Now we just need an end to the engineering works! |  |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 14:46 - Oct 14 with 1428 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:13 - Oct 14 by ghostofescobar |
I drove down to Ipswich at the weekend, and was awestruck that the road was clear! I guess that not only illustrates what a great thing it is for the road to be done, but how sad my life is! Hitting those roadworks both ways for over 2 years has been a bloomin pain for every home game. |
Try doing it every day for work! |  |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 15:13 - Oct 14 with 1349 views | hype313 |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 14:31 - Oct 14 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Now we just need an end to the engineering works! |
Unfortunately they are never ending. |  |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 16:49 - Oct 14 with 1184 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 13:28 - Oct 14 by AlanG296 |
If only that were true. Local paper reported a few months ago already £11,000,000 over budget. |
It wasn’t just resurfacing it was also restructured. Foundation dug up and replaced. |  |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 17:00 - Oct 14 with 1164 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 15:13 - Oct 14 by hype313 |
Unfortunately they are never ending. |
Wonder if the delayed work on A12, including some completely new roads, for example Rivenhall by pass, will avoid the axe come budget day. Ditto with the replacement of miles and miles of concrete roads which are due to be replaced over the next few years. | |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 17:09 - Oct 14 with 1142 views | AlanG296 |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 16:49 - Oct 14 by Pinewoodblue |
It wasn’t just resurfacing it was also restructured. Foundation dug up and replaced. |
The job was always reconstruction and was supposed to cost £36,900,000.00. from the start. It was never just resurfacing.
The £11,000,000.00 overspend and 8 month overrun is a failure by National Highways and their contractors to deliver on time and on budget. | | | |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 17:23 - Oct 14 with 1113 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 17:09 - Oct 14 by AlanG296 |
The job was always reconstruction and was supposed to cost £36,900,000.00. from the start. It was never just resurfacing.
The £11,000,000.00 overspend and 8 month overrun is a failure by National Highways and their contractors to deliver on time and on budget. |
You were responding to a post which suggested it was just resurfacing. | |
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| Joyous news for those who use the A12 for home games on 17:42 - Oct 14 with 1067 views | Vaughan8 |
Thanks for this update. Great news. COming to Ipswich 2 Saturdays in a row so will save me a lot of time! | | | |
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