A major town’s roads are now a “dog’s dinner” following the shelving of a key A249 project designed to ease congestion, it has been claimed. Resident Ian Stuart says the years-long saga of worsening traffic jams in Maidstone can only be fixed by a major bypass. Work at the edge of the Kent Medical Campus, on the outskirts of the county town, was put on hold by Kent County Council (KCC) earlier this year when it emerged the cost would exceed the £11.4m budget. The project, part of wider scheme taking in junction seven of the M20, was aimed at relieving congestion on the A249 into Bearsted Road …
