At last. The A11

[Baitrunner]

Just had to tell someone because this is super exciting. How sad am I?

Just come up the A11 and northbound the 2nd half of the road is open as dual carriageway

[BroadScot]

Good news indeed,   now for the A17 next!  Well.... I can dream  can't I?

 

 

Iain.

[Oddfellow]

The A11 is open now. Officials are to cut the ribbon later, but reports are that is running as a dual in both directions as I write this.

 

Excellent news.

 

I remember travelling to Norfolk on holiday when the A11 ran through Epping Forrest and the journey took four hours!

 

Does anybody recall the pond in Elevden?

[Boaters]

In the paper today,Yippee !

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/it_s_open_final_cones_moved_away_and_the_a11_is_now_a_fully_dualled_road_1_3883505

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

I posted earlier on about using the A11 when we used to race at Snetterton. We went up on the bikes, mine being a Suzuki GS750DB, and my mate was riding a Suzuki GS850E (the shaft drive version of mine). We did the M11 / A11 route, but in 1980 you had to go through all the villages, with the Thetford bypass being a ringroad in Thetford itself. Needless to say we went over the speed limit by a few mph only ( :naughty: ) and it took us an hour and three quarters to get home to North Kent.

 

As for the dualling now, It looked finished when we came up in October, with such things as landscaping still being done, which i assume was why it was still all coned to one lane each way, with a 40 limit.  Great to hear it`s now finished, so when we come up next May, we SHOULD have a quicker more straight forward run.

[Polly]

Hooooooray!!!!!

[ExSurveyor]

Straight through the Dartford crossing, no queues, sailed through the newly opened A11, and on a Friday afternoon. I am very impressed. 2 hours 15 minutes from Kent, normally takes 2 and a half hours late evening and nearer 3 and a half on a Friday afternoon.