Essex County Council has welcomed the Government’s first public comments on the future of the A12 as a ‘positive step in the right direction’.
The A12 inquiry report, published in the summer (Surveyor, 31 July 2008), was the UK’s first local authority-led public inquiry into a trunk road.
Transport minister, Lord Adonis, speaking in the House of Lords last week, said many of the interventions proposed by the county council-funded inquiry were already ‘under consideration, or in the pipeline’.
Lord Hanningfield, leader of Essex, said: ‘I am very pleased at this encouraging response from the Government, as we know the A12 is one of the most important routes in the country, and yet has one of the worst records for congestion.
‘We now wait to see what action ministers will take to help improve the lives of the thousands of motorists using the A12 every day.’
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