Mulleys Motorways SJ02 AAW queuing at Barton Mills - 5 Apr 2019 (P1000849)

Friday 5 April 2019 (1734) – Mulleys Motorways SJ02 AAW stuck in Friday tea-time traffic on the old A11 (Newmarket Road), Barton Mills when heading back to Ixworth after completing the school service 956 from Bury St. Edmunds to Worlington and Mildenhall. It is a former Dublin Bus Alexander ALX400 bodied Volvo B7TL which I believe was their AV248 (02 D 10248) new around January 2002.

Queuing traffic on the A11 dual carriageway from Chalk Hill to Fiveways encourages drivers to try and beat the queue by turning off and using the parallel old road. However, they then have difficulty re-joining the dual carriageway and have also to queue along with rat run traffic travelling out of Mildenhall through Barton Mills village. Those drivers who then try to avoid that queue use Bell Lane and The Street and when reaching The Bull find themselves in another queue. Unfortunately the legitimate routine local traffic like the bus gets bogged down in the queues.