IN response to your article (Gazette, July 18, End of the road for the A120 to A12 upgrade?) I wondered: If National Highways plans are so thorough, how is it they’ve never explained why they feel it’s necessary to build a new six-lane road rather than adding two lanes between Kelvedon and Marks Tey?
And also, why they’ve not planned for a junction with the new A120?
On the A120, consultations have been ongoing since around 2005 (the Blair/Brown government listed it as a priority) but the public - who’s views are meant to be valued) and Essex County Council, clearly went for ‘Route D’.
I live 200 yards off the A120 and in the last five or six years there has been 1 very serious collision and 1 fatality within a few yards of where we turn onto and off the A120.
Apart from unlocking economic benefits for the whole region, an improved A120 will save lives.
Noel Mead
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