The controversial plans to create the UK's first toll road for a decade are to be binned.
Improvements to the A14 are instead set to be funded from general taxation.
The scheme involves widening a heavily congested 25-mile stretch in East Anglia carrying traffic from the port of Felixstowe to the Midlands.
There had been fears that lorries would be charged £3 and cars between £1 and £1.50 for using the 12-mile stretch of toll road, affecting a vast number of fresh produce firms.
But now, Prime Minister David Cameron has said he understands the strong opposition to the proposal to charge motorists and raise 20 per cent of the overall £1.5 billion cost from tolls, with chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander expected to announce imminently that the scheme has been dropped.
No comments yet