A14 road
| A14 road in the UK | |
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| Start of the street: | Felixstowe |
| End of street: | King's Lynn |
| Overall length: | 204 km (126.8 mi ) |
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| Traffic jam on the A14 at Needham Market (photo 2006) | |
A14 road ( English for road A14 ) is a long-distance road in England with at least four lanes and numbered junctions . It begins in the east, at the same time as part of European route 30 , but not signposted as such, with junction 62 in Felixstowe , the most important container port in the British Isles, after around 11 km at junction 58 it meets the A12 road , with which it shares a joint The route bypasses the city of Ipswich to the south and crosses the Orwell River , separates from the A12 at junction 55, forms part of the European route 24 in its further course and leads in a north-westerly direction past Needham Market and Stowmarket to Bury St Edmunds (connections 42, 43, 44), further west via Newmarket , from junction 38 to junction 36 with the A11 road together, to Cambridge , which is bypassed to the north. At junction 26 it meets the northern end of the M11 motorway . From there it leads in a west-northwest direction to Huntingdon (the southern bypass is to be opened at the end of 2020), crosses A1 road , passes Kettering , runs a short distance between junctions 8 and 7 together with the A43 road and between junctions 10 and 3 with the A6 road and at the junction ( Catthorpe Interchange ) merges with the M1 motorway into the M6 motorway towards Birmingham .
