The Executive Board AGREED to:
I. Note the responses to the consultation on the Western Orbital bus infrastructure improvement scheme.
II. the next steps as set out in this report for the ongoing strategic assessment of the Western Orbital scheme as part of the City Deal programme to support related potential Tranche 1 schemes.
III. to take a key role in working with Highways England to establish clear priorities along the M11 corridor and for these discussions to form part of the next report on the Western Orbital, and arrange a meeting of City Deal Board and Assembly members and officers and local MPs with Highways England, the minutes of which will appear on the City Deal’s website, to press the case for firm commitments from them to improve the M11 west of Cambridge including:
(a) Making that section of the M11 a “managed motorway” and seek a date for that, and
(b) Improving the motorway junctions, including priorities for junctions 11 and 13.
(c) Remodelling the Girton interchange.
The Joint Assembly RECOMMENDED that the Executive Board:
(a) Notes the responses to the consultation on the Western Orbital bus infrastructure improvement scheme.
(b) Agrees the next steps as set out in the report for the ongoing strategic assessment of the Western Orbital scheme as part of the City Deal programme to supported related potential Tranche 1 schemes.
(c) Agrees to take a key role in working with Highways England to establish clear priorities along the M11 corridor and for these discussions to form part of the next report on the Western Orbital.