A11 road (England)

Route map:
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For other roads designated "A11", see
A11 roads
.

A11 shield
A11
A140
Eastern endNorwich
Location
Country
Primary
destinations
Stratford
Newmarket
Thetford
Bishop's Stortford
Harlow
Woodford
Road network
←
A12

The A11 is a major

A12
extension in 1999.

It also multiplexes/overlaps with the

bypass
.

Route

City of London

All this part has been declassified and is now a minor road. Thus the A11 now starts at Aldgate, just inside the eastern boundary of the City of London. The first stretch is Whitechapel High Street, east of the junction with Mansell Street. In a complex reworking of the roads since the days of the Aldgate gyratory system, it is two-way, but the east-bound section is part of the ring-road that retained a one-way system south of this junction, but the westbound section is for local access and motorists have to U-turn to avoid entering the congestion charging zone.

Tower Hamlets

East of Aldgate station, the A11 enters the

Whitechapel station and the Royal London Hospital
.

The A11 is named Mile End Road where it runs through Mile End; the Green Bridge carries Mile End Park over the A11 / Mile End Road

It becomes Mile End Road at the eastern end of Whitechapel Road, at Mile End Gate, the former toll gate for the turnpike. It passes Stepney Green Underground station, with Stepney to the south, and continues through Mile End, passing the Mile End Underground station. Next, as it continues through Bow, it becomes Bow Road, passing Bow Road Underground station and Bow Church DLR station.

There is a dual carriageway flyover over the

A12 extension in 1999, to make the former A11 seem a less important road and encourage traffic to use the new dual carriageway between there and Leytonstone
.

Cambridgeshire and Suffolk

Passing south underneath the A1307 Junction near to Babraham, Cambridgeshire.

The road number A11 reappears at

Roman road
for the remainder of its length.

The A11 formerly went through

A14. The A11 re-appears north-east of Newmarket, and remained a dual carriageway. The road bypasses Barton Mills before entering Norfolk in the Thetford Forest
, passing the 113-foot-tall (34 m) Elveden War Memorial. This section of the road opened as a dual carriageway on 12 December 2014. This completes the dualling of the trunk road between Norwich and London.

Norfolk

A47
and A11.

The upgrading of the final section of single carriageway 'Thetford Straight' between Barton Mills and Thetford (opened December 2014) means the road is dual carriageway all the way to Norwich. The road continues northeast bypassing Thetford, Attleborough and Wymondham. The A11 originally ran through the centre of all three towns giving rise to congestion which frequently became the focus of delays on the route. It also passes the Snetterton Circuit motor racing venue. On entering Norwich, it becomes single carriageway again and is called Newmarket Road. It terminates at the St Stephens Street roundabout near the city centre.

Various sections of the A11 between the junction with the M11 in Cambridgeshire and Norwich have recently been upgraded to dual carriageway. The Roudham Heath to Attleborough section was dualled in 2003[2] and the Attleborough bypass was dualed in 2007.[3] The previously single carriageway road between Thetford and the Fiveways roundabout is now dual carriageway and opened in December 2014.

Cycling

London

Cycle Superhighway 2 (CS2) runs alongside the A11 between Aldgate and the A12 in Bow. One-way cycle tracks run along either side of the A11 through Whitechapel, Mile End, and Bow, carrying cyclists from the City to Stratford
. The route runs unbroken; the route is signposted and marked using blue paint and cycle icons.

At Bow, where the A11 meets the A12, CS2 leaves the main carriageway along slip roads, and cyclists may congregate at an Advanced Stop Line - in both directions - to cross the roundabout, rejoining the main carriageway on the other side of the roundabout. East of Bow, CS2 runs along either side of the A118 to Stratford station, and cycle lanes are provided as far as Ilford.[4]

Norwich

The Wymondham to Sprowston Pedalway runs along the A11/Newmarket Road. To the west, the Pedalway joins the A11 at Eaton. Westbound destinations include Cringleford, Hethersett, and Wymondham. Running northeast, the Pedalway is signposted along a shared-use path adjacent to the Newmarket-bound (westbound) carriageway. The route crosses the A140/Daniels Road and continues along Newmarket Road as a shared-use path. It leaves the A11 in a northerly direction at the junction with the A1056/Ipswich Road. The route runs through Norwich City Centre to Sprowston.[5]

Completed improvements

A11 Fiveways – Thetford Improvement

Highways Agency
Cost estimate£113-157m (8/08)
Start date2012
Completion date2015
StakeholdersHighways Agency
GeometryKML

Proposals to dual 14.8 km of the road between the Fiveways Roundabout at

comprehensive spending review noting that the report from the public inquiry had not yet been signed off by the Department for Transport.[9]

The

Highways Agency has published an official map of the proposed scheme and a Google overlay map is also available. The original cost estimate was £30 million rising to £60 million in March 2007[10]
and then to £113-£157 million by August 2008.[11]

The project received strong support from local business groups and local government[11] and was expected to reduce journey times by 3 minutes off-peak and up to 25 minutes at peak times.[12] Environmental campaign groups believed that in a time of economic downturn it would be better to invest in local public transport rather than on costly road schemes.[13] On 20 October 2010, the government approved the scheme, indicating that the works would continue.[14] The Elveden Bypass opened during Easter 2014 with one lane in use each way. The full dual carriageway between Barton Mills and Thetford was opened on 12 December 2014 by transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin.[15]

Former sections

City of London

Originally, the A11 started at the

Aldgate
. Hence leading to the current A11 starting point at Aldgate.

Newham

From Bow Interchange, A118 briefly becomes a

A112
also joins the one-way system, heading north–south.

Waltham Forest

North of Maryland, the old A11 crosses from the

Gospel Oak to Barking Line
.

Redbridge

Once past the Green Man Interchange, the former A11 route enters the

A406 at Gates Corner (named after a Ford car showroom, which was turned into residential flats in 2006), but since the A406 was widened when the M11 was constructed there are no slip roads for interchange and the old A11 passes over the top. It merges with the A104 Woodford New Road by the Statue of Winston Churchill and becomes the A104 High Road Woodford Green. North, the road was A11 until the M11 opened in the 1970s, triggering the downgrading of the A11 between Woodford and Stump Cross (see below). Just before leaving London for Essex, the A104 becomes Epping
New Road.

Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire

Shortly after entering Essex, the A11 enters

Potter Street. The road then becomes the A1184 and goes through Sawbridgeworth: through the rest of the Essex stretch between Harlow and Stump Cross the road follows a more traditionally English course, characterised by bends of varying and sometimes uneven radii, with just one straight mile (1.6 km) (to the south of Littlebury
) along the north Essex stretch.

At Thorley Wash, just south of

Audley End. The B1383 ends at 9A (Stump Cross), the end of a spur that comes off the M11 at Junction 9, near Great Chesterford
. From there, the former A11 section aligns once more with the current A11.

References

  1. ^ "News: And Newmarket by-pass". Autocar. 143 (nbr 4105): 27. 12 July 1975.
  2. ^ "A11 Roudham Heath to Attleborough Dualling". Highways Agency. Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2008.
  3. ^ "A11 Attleborough Bypass Improvement". Highways Agency. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2008.
  4. ^ "CS2: Stratford to Aldgate" (PDF). Transport for London (TfL). Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Norwich Cycle Map" (PDF). Norwich City Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  6. Highways Agency. Archived from the original
    on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  7. ^ "A11 Fiveways to Thetford Improvement – Project timeline".
    Highways Agency. Archived from the original
    on 3 December 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  8. ^ "Major boost for East of England as planned A11 dualling brought forward". Department for Transport (East). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2008.
  9. ^ "MPs from Norfolk and Suffolk fight to keep A11 funding". BBC News. 24 September 2010. Archived from the original on 25 September 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2010. MPs have called on businesses, residents and councils to lobby government ministers to remind them of the importance of widening the A11
  10. ^ "Estimating and monitoring the costs of building roads in England". National Audit Office. Archived from the original on 6 June 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  11. ^ a b "Government told it's high time to dual the A11 as public petition launched by Norfolk County Council". Norfolk county council. Archived from the original on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2008.
  12. ^ "Why dualling the A11 makes business sense". BIZonline. Retrieved 5 November 2008.[dead link]
  13. ^ "Road building won't stop the recession".
    Campaign for Better Transport (CBT)
    . Retrieved 18 November 2008.
  14. ^ The works were due to start January 2013 and finish September 2014 "A11 dualling set to be given go-ahead". Eastern Daily Press (Norfolk, UK). 20 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  15. ^ "A11 dual carriageway opens". UK Government. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  16. ^ "Switch to two-way traffic on Stratford Broadway". Newham Council.

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