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Route of the A120 from OpenStreetMap |
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West end: | Puckeridge |
A10 road A1184 road A1250 road M11 motorway Junction 8 A130 road A131 road A12 road Junctions 25 and 29 A1232 road A133 road A136 road |
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East end: | Harwich |
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Stansted Airport Colchester |
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The A120 is an important trunk road in southern England. It follows the course of Stane Street, a Roman road from Standon, Hertfordshire at its western terminus to Colchester. From Colchester the A120 leads roughly east to Harwich, on the way carrying much traffic from Stansted Airport.
The road forms part of the unsigned Euroroute E32.
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The old A120 has been bypassed in several places, such that the old Roman road can be easily traced on a map, with the current designated A120 being less straight. From west to east, the A120's bypasses are:
The A120 was, at one point in the Ringway scheme of London roads, going to be part of an outer ring road for London. However, the Ringway projects were scrapped, and the implications of extending the A120 to the west were too great.
The western end of the A120 terminates at the A10, which was recently upgraded such that the route from the A120 south to the M25 motorway is all dual-carriageway road (although some of this passes through Broxbourne and Cheshunt). As such, the A120 is now carrying more traffic from the M11, that wishes to avoid the heavily-congested M25.
A joint scheme involving work to junctions on the M11 and A120, it is proposed that a new junction on the A120, replacing two existing ones, will be built to inprove access to Stansted Airport.[1]
There are proposals to upgrade the A120 from Hare Green to Harwich which is currently a mixture of single carriageway and dual-carriageway as required by approval for the new Bathside Bay container port at Harwich International Port. Plans for consultation were put on hold in August 2009.[2]
There were proposals to turn the A120 into a dual carriageway between Braintree and the junction with the A12.[3] In July 2009 the proposed improvements were 'scrapped'.[4]
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