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Problems a-plenty, but still the best chance yet A lot of time and resources have been wasted on the way to where we are now, both in doing things that came to nothing, and not doing things that would have been useful. Read about some of those past efforts here (page 4). The Norwich Connect2 project didn't suddenly appear in 2007 as an entry dreamt up to enter the Sustrans competition bid. It grew out of the City Council's original Whitlingham Bridges and Links project of 2002. For the last four years, NRHG has been urging the City Council not to sacrifice attainable improvements to a vision of a Big Joined-Up Scheme. The Whitlingham Bridges and Links project, which has been the foundation for all NRHG's work, is the obvious way of doing that. It doesn't conflict with the

further long-term studies in progress, because it focuses on: Links that don't involve roads or elaborate riverside developments Access only by cycle and pedestrian paths and by river River crossings only by lightweight bridge structures. There are problems enough in achieving that, but this is still the best chance we have, and it must be taken and not lost. The job here and now for the Project Delivery Team and the stakeholders it represents is to put maximum effort into taking timely and appropriate decisions and getting resources to make sure the Norwich C2 project is completed on time. That's the only way this long-running story will end to the benefit of local people and the credit of the local authorities. | Page One | Page Two | |Page Four |