The rest of the UK will soon be connected properly to Norfolk!
Much as I love my home county of Norfolk, where I still live, it has long been a bone of contention that we have no motorways, and no fully dual carriageway road to the rest of the UK. Well, the good news is that the 'missing link' from Barton Mills to the Thetford Bypass, north of Elveden, is being upgraded to dual carriageway, and the work is on schedule, despite the wet weather in the winter. It should be completed by the late autumn of this year. For the most part, you now drive on one carriageway of the new road (except through the actual village of Elveden), but still as a single carriageway road. The upshot of this is that there is a 40mph speed limit for the whole 9.8 miles of the roadworks, most of the way with no overtaking allowed. When the road is busy, as it was earlier this week when I was towing my caravan home from Cambridge, you have to travel quite slowly, which is a nuisance- so if you are coming to Norfolk for a caravan trip, you will need to allow for delays here. It also has the effect that, when the traffic is less crowded, if you stick to the 40mph speed limit, as I did, you end up with a queue behind you, and lots of space ahead of you, as naughty motorists don't obey the speed limit!
