£40m to be spent on improving roads and footpaths across Cambridgeshire
The County Council says the work will begin next month, and run until April next year
£40 million is going to be invested in improving various roads and footpaths across Cambridgeshire
The County Council says the work will begin next month, and run until April next year.
The funding will include over half a million pounds on resurfacing part of Newmarket Road in Cambridge, and over a million pounds improving the worst sections of the carriageway of Chatteris Road in Somersham.
However, the chair of the authority’s highways and transport committee said the funding is “never enough” to fix everything.
At a committee meeting earlier this week councillors approved the list of priority road maintenance projects for the coming financial year.
In addition to this the committee was presented with a proposed list of further schemes that are proposed to be funded through the extra investment, but have not been approved yet.
Carriageway and footway maintenance work prioritised for 2024:
Cambridge
£120,000 – Footway repairs to various city centre footways
£40,000 – Footway resurfacing along Mill End Road
£651,000 – Phase one of footway resurfacing the estate including Suez Road, Hobart Road, Madras Road, and Marmora Road
£552,000 – Carriageway resurfacing along Newmarket Road from Barnwell Road roundabout to Meadowlands Road (linked with a Greater Cambridge Partnership scheme)
East Cambridgeshire
£288,000 – Footway resurfacing along New Barns Avenue, in Ely, for the section from Cemetery junction to Lynn Road link
£155,000 – Footway resurfacing along Kirkby Cross Avenue in Littleport
£828,000 – Carriageway strengthening and resurfacing along two sections of Lyn Road – near Brandon Creek and near the A1101, including the roundabout
Fenland
£420,000 – Footway resurfacing a full estate in Wisbech that includes Windsor Drive, Prince of Wales Close, and Jubilee Walk, including separated footways
£68,000 – Concrete overlay on the footway along Perry Road, in Leverington
£58,000 – Footway resurfacing along Poplar Close, in March
£375,000 – Carriageway resurfacing in Leverington, along Church Road, Church End, Gorefield Road, and Roman Bank, from the sports club to eight Roman Bank and Ringers Lane junction
£475,000 – Carriageway strengthening and resurfacing along two sections at either end of Padgetts Road in Christchurch
Huntingdonshire
£180,000 – Footway resurfacing along Broadway in Yaxley, from number 140 to the bus shelter
£190,000 – Footway resurfacing along Maryland Avenue in Huntingdon
£1,241,400 – Carriageway resurfacing along two of the “worst sections” of Chatteris Road in Somersham
£170,000 – Carriageway reconstruction along California Road in Huntingdon, from Arbury Road to the corner
£120,000 – Additional carriageway surfacing on Cambridge Road in St Neots, at the High Street
£190,000 – Carriageway surfacing along New Street in St Neots, from the High Street to the start of Lammas Meadow
South Cambridgeshire
£250,000 – Footway resurfacing along Duxford Road in Whittlesford from the village to the Royston Road crossroads as part of a Greater Cambridge Partnership scheme
£380,000 – Footway resurfacing along Newmarket Road in Bottisham, from Bell Road to High Street
£460,000 – Carriageway resurfacing along Cambridge Road in Little Abington, between the speed bumps through the village
£430,000 – Carriageway resurfacing along Ely Road in Milton, from Denny End to just past Waterbeach Lodge
£325,000 – Carriageway resurfacing along Church Street in Gamlingay, from junction through to Church End