Busy Lowestoft Road Opened After Repairs

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:00

Roadworks in central Lowestoft, as seen here from Battery Green Road during the clousre

A47 Reopened in Lowestoft

After a week of gridlocked traffic in Lowestoft and Oulton Broad - a busy road has been reopened.

Traffic delays of more than two hours to travel across Lowestoft had been reported, after a burst water pipe at the Waveney Road - Battery Green Road, Suffolk Road juction was shut for repairs.

Although Anglian Water had fixed the damaged sewer pipe - the scale of damge to the road meant it took svereal days to compelete the resurfacing of the main A47 through town.

The road was opened to traffic on Good Friday.

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