Progress is continuing to take place with the construction work on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement programme. This £1.5 billion improvement work has been taking place since November 2016. A year later it has been announced that the temporary bridge that has been erected over the A14 at Swansea will be taken down this week.

This bridge has been an essential asset to the work carried out in this area as it has been used to carry 160,000 cubic meters of construction materials from the south to the north of the A14 over the course of the last 2 months.

Highways England has commented on the construction work taking place to upgrade the road between Ellington and west of Huntingdon, which is the Milton junction on the Cambridge Northern Bypass. The use of the temporary bridge has helped the team working on the programme to carry out work and to prepare for the construction of the planned Swansea Interchange while trying to have a minimal impact on people’s journeys. The use of the temporary bridge has been just one of a number of different solutions that have been but in place in order to keep people moving on this route, and cause as little disruption as possible while the improvements are being made.

The bridge will be taken down overnight and there are expected to be closures of the A14 when this takes place, on Monday 20th November, Tuesday 21st November and Saturday 25th November between junctions 24 and 31 from 9pm to 5am. The construction work on this road is expected to be completed by March 2021. The road has narrow lanes and a 40mph restricted speed limit in order to offer safe working conditions while the building work to improve the A14 is carried out while also ensuring that traffic is still able to make use of the roads.