Does Ipswich Need A Northern Bypass? A Driver's Perspective

Ipswich has a problem. It's a town of 140,000 people entirely reliant on one road, the A14, to move traffic around the town. This includes lorries destined for the Port of Felixstowe, the UK's busiest port (*1).

Today, these HGVs go around Ipswich - but before the A14 bypassed it in the eighties, the only way was straight through.

Perhaps this road's most defining feature, the Orwell Bridge, is also its most fallible. Its closure sends all this traffic through Ipswich once again - but today, car ownership and usage are higher than ever.

The result: the town grinds to a halt as streets designed for local traffic are lumbered with arterial traffic too. So, what can we do?…