Highways bosses hope that work on one of the three major Norfolk A47 revamp schemes will be completed early next year.
National Highways officials are optimistic that the work they and contractors Galliford Try have left to do on the dualling scheme between Blofield and North Burlingham will be finished in January.
The £100m scheme has seen a previously single lane stretch of 2.6-mile carriageway replaced with a new two-lane dual carriageway, which opened in March this year.
This week saw the unveiling of one of the two new bridges crossing the A47 to link the villages on either side of the road.
The new Knights Bridge - close to the now shut Cantley junction - has been named after Valerie Knights, who lived in the nearby White House and often went to the aid of people involved in crashes on the road.
Work still needs to be completed on a second bridge at Blofield, while the old A47, which will remain in use as a local road, needs to be resurfaced, with a new cycle lane added to connect North Burlingham to Blofield.
And officials will be planting new hedgerows and areas of woodland this winter, alongside scrub and grassland to increase habitats for badgers and reptiles.
National Highways says there will be a 40pc net gain in biodiversity as a result.
Chris Griffin, project manager for National Highways, said: "We're hoping the final work on the bridge linking North Burlingham to Blofield will be complete by the end of September and we are in the process of resurfacing the old A47 and putting the cycle path in.
"This winter we will be doing all the work to plant trees and put the habitats back in, so I am hoping we will have finished everything by January next year.
"With construction of the project in its final stages, the new dual carriageway will mean a less congested, much safer road which will open the area up to business."
Preparatory work on the dualling scheme started in 2023, but the main construction began in August 2024.
It is one of three major A47 revamps which National Highways has been working on in Norfolk.
A section of road between Easton and North Tuddenham is being dualled, while the Thickthorn junction, on the edge of Norwich, is also being upgraded.
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