"Sinking bridges, damaged roads and broken promises"

Councillors have blasted "negative legacies" of the A14 upgrades four years after completion.

Issues such as sinking bridges, damaged roads, missing pathways and road signs were raised by councillors at a Cambridgeshire County Council meeting on Tuesday 22 October 2024.

The National Highways project to build the new A14 road between Cambridge and Huntingdon cost £1.5billion, and when it opened in 2020, it was described as a project that "pushed boundaries" and would offer "benefits for many years to come".

While councillors said there had been benefits to the scheme, concerns were shared about "the problems left behind" four years on.

A motion, calling for the county council to put together a report highlighting all the outstanding issues so that they could be documented, was unanimously backed.

There have also been calls for MPs, the new minister for transport, and National Highways to be "more responsive" to problems from the A14 project being raised by people and to look at how they can be addressed.