I have read the long running, tedious debates on the exorbitant cost to upgrade the A120 extension to the A12.

This should have been planned, funded and built at the time of the building of the road from Stansted to Galleys Corner.

Now with the cancellation of this project, a driver can expect to sit in a traffic jam for some 20 minutes and crawl through to Marks Tey, annoying all small villages en route.

With Government plans to build thousands more homes on the A120 corridor without any true infrastructure in place, more congestion and pollution will continue.

For the transport agencies to cancel this project because of lack of funds is a joke.

I travel throughout Europe and Ireland on a regular basis, and all new road schemes under way display “EU Commissionfunded project” signs.

Can the authorities come up with a good excuse why our A120 cost will not be met by the EU Commission, seeing as how we are paying for such projects all over Europe?

It’s time our roads should receive some of this funding from Europe and not expect us to upgrade less congested roads all over Europe.

John Inskip
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