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Comment

Representation ID: 25162

Received: 27/10/2017

Respondent: Suffolk Chamber of Commerce

We hope that the Council will continue to support the Suffolk Chamber-led No More A14 Delays in Suffolk campaign which advocates improvements to, amongst others, Junctions 53 (Whitehouse), 55 (Copdock), 56 (Whersted); 57 (Ransomes); and 58 (Seven Hills). In that context the Plan should identify, where necessary and possible, opportunities for the Council to 'mesh' with any proposals emerging from Highways England or the highways authority.

The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce strongly supports proposals that will evaluate, alternative routes round and through Ipswich to alleviate congestion including the Upper Orwell Crossings, a Northern Bypass and solutions to the heavily-congested gyratory and bottlenecks into and out of town such as the A1156, A1189, A1214 and A1071. Likewise we wish to see more careful forward planning of the infrastructure necessary to service new developments sites for example at Futura Park and Ransomes Europark.

We support the introduction of innovative transport and parking solutions to tackle congestion and stimulate footfall such as the continuation (or re-establishment, at ASDA) of simple and affordable park and ride schemes, more customer-friendly car park charging schemes, bus timetabling better synchronised to business needs and improved routes and facilities to encourage cycling.