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A large upgrade to A428 has reached its semi -stage every day with a cost of approximately £ 1 million. The schema, led by the National Highways, involves building a 10 -mile pair of highway connecting the black cat junction in Bedfordshire to Caxton Gibbet in Cambridgeshire. The new route is designed to reduce and travel for about 80,000 vehicles passing through the black cat junction on weekdays. Key upgrades will add an A1 underpass, an A421 bridge and a pair of highway connection to M11.

National Highways Senior Project Manager Paul Salmon said to the BBC: “One billion pounds, this is the cost of the plan. We are at the top because we are at the top of the summit, we spend about one million pounds a day.”

Salmon said that there are many examinations in this project by the Ministry of Transport and Treasury, as it is the biggest road project in construction.

Salmon also announced that people connected to the single highway from nearby intersections and local villages caused a “compression point”.

“This work opens the lock of all these problems, unlocks security problems, then people are in line with traffic.

He continued: “There was a large amount of support in the way of this scheme. People who knew, live and travel this area, understood why this scheme was built.”

Salmon, the project planned for this weekend of the half of the big road work completed in half, he added.

He said: “We are exactly where we need to be.

“We had a real problem of rain in September last year, in the region, large amounts of floods and influenced us, but we brought it back.

“Spring 2027 is when we are open to traffic. It sounds like a long time, but we’ve already passed 18 months, so now it won’t take long.”