Roadworks on main route into Ipswich to continue over summer
It's so two new roundabouts can be built
Last updated 5th Apr 2022
Roadworks on the A137 at Wherstead are due to continue throughout the summer.
Work started last month on the A14 onslip and offslip roads, as well on the A137 itself.
The ÂŁ6m work is to reconfigure the road and two teardrop roundabouts to create a new entrance for an industrial park.
Danaher & Walsh, the civil engineering contractors carrying out the roadworks on behalf of developer Pigeon Investment Management Ltd, said the work is due to finish at the end of August or September.
David Lavery, operations director with the firm, said the two teardrop-shaped roundabouts will become “conventional roundabouts”.
He said: “It’s about slowing them down to make it safer for people, and then there will be the industrial development.”
Mr Lavery confirmed the plan was to do work with temporary speed limits and in some periods lane closures with signals may be needed, but no full closures are planned for the majority of the works.
He added: “We’ll probably have some road closure for the final stages but if we can do stuff at night or offline we will do.”
A temporary speed limit of 30mph is currently in place for the area for safety reasons.