There will be a full road closure in place on the A140 from the B1077 (top of the Brome triangle) down to Castleton Way in Yaxley from 20:00hrs on Friday 26 February until 05:00hrs on Monday 01 March 2021. The closure will allow construction work to take place to connect the existing A140 carriageway to …
Northern Roundabout: Surfacing Works are well progressed with base and binder courses completed. Final surface course and roadmarkings will be installed as connections made to the existing A140 carriageway. This is currently scheduled for the weekend of 26th February to 01st March 2021. Footpaths & verges – path construction works are well progressed and topsoiling …
Northern Roundabout: Surfacing Works are well progressed with base and binder courses completed. Final surface course and roadmarkings will be installed as connections made to the existing A140 carriageway. This is currently scheduled for the weekend of 26th to 28th February 2021. Footpaths & verges – path construction works are currently ongoing and topsoiling to …
Northern Roundabout: Surfacing Works are well progressed with base and binder courses completed. Final surface course and roadmarkings will be installed as connections made to the existing A140 carriageway. This is currently scheduled for the weekend of 12th to 14th February 2021. Footpaths & verges – path construction works are currently ongoing and topsoiling to …
Latest Works Progress: Northern Roundabout Surfacing works to roundabout and link roads approaching completion Drainage & kerbing works complete Footpath & verge works progressing well Tie-ins to existing A140 carriageway planned for Feb 2021 – exact dates tbc. Southern Roundabout Preparation of Sub Base to roundabout and link road progressing well Drainage & kerbing works …
Sub Base preparation works approaching completion with surfacing works due to be carried out Tuesday 15th to Wednesday 23rd December. (Further works from 04 January 2021)
Over 1000 Tonnes of aggregate have been imported to form the Sub Base to the new carriageway / Drainage works continuing / Kerbing works have commenced.
These two drone flyovers show both roundabouts progressing well and clearly taking shape with the new link road to the B1077 clearly visible. We’re continuing to make good progress on site. We’ll share more videos of our work in due course.
Did you know – As we are building near a disused WW2 airfield we occasionally find interesting artefacts in the ground (we’ve safely disposed of any ammunition). This is an air bottle jettisoned from an aircraft and would have been used by aircrew at the rear of a plane to breath at altitude.
The A140 scheme recently hosted an event bringing together the various partners involved. Representatives from Suffolk County Council, Mid Suffolk District Council, Norfolk County Council, Interserve and Dr Dan Poulter MP visited the site and were very happy with the progress made so far. They were impressed with the efforts made to modernise this stretch …
