The transport minister announced �700m of road improvements over the next three years across the East of England during a visit to Bedford on Wednesday. David Jamieson was marking the official start of work on the �57m Great Barford bypass on the A421, linking the Bedford southern bypass to the A1.
Most of the �700m will go on road improvements, including the long-awaited A47 bypass for Thorney, Cambs.
But there will be some support for guided bus schemes in Cambs and Beds.
The Cambridge to Huntingdon guided busway and the Translink guided bus scheme in Luton are both to be given government funding.
The minister said it was all designed to support the government's plans for areas of growing population in the east.
"The UK at the moment is a victim of its own success - the economy has moved far more rapidly than the transport system.
But we are now making that investment ... and this region is going to get a huge slice of that which will benefit the local economy and benefit local people,"
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