{"id":56226,"date":"2015-04-02T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7bbb90e0e25af3d3e792dfbc1c50ae4a"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:18:00","slug":"press-release-new-lane-opens-on-the-a14-histon-to-girton-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56226","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New lane opens on the A14 Histon to Girton scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Highways Agency Project Manager, Mark Saunders, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have worked hard over the past 24 hours to try and get the additional lanes open to traffic in time for Easter.<\/p>\n<p>The A14 eastbound between Histon and Girton opened to traffic at about 6.30am this morning with a 50mph speed limit in place due to safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The westbound carriageway is in the final stages of construction and we aim to open westbound at the end of next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">To help people making journeys over the Easter bank holiday, we will suspend work between Thursday 2 April and 7 April.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The scheme will be finished by early June.<\/p>\n<p>Mark added: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Opening the extra lanes is an important step in finishing work on this project, and drivers should notice a difference to their journeys now the eastbound carriageway is open.<\/p>\n<p>Other work will continue until early June, which will include street lighting work \u2013 for which a 50mph limit will be in place \u2013 and fully resurfacing the road between junctions 31 and 32, which we\u2019ve added to the programme and will be completed using overnight closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Some finishing off works and landscaping means scheme completion could be early in June.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"general-enquiries\">General enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the public should contact the Information Line on 0300 123 5000.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"media-enquiries\">Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Journalists should contact the press office on 0844 693 1448 and use the menu to speak to the most appropriate press officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road users are advised a new lane on the eastbound carriageway on the A14 between Histon to Girton is now open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}