Campaigners continue to fight to get the A47 between Great Yarmouth and Acle dualled following a series of crashes on the road.
Over the past two weeks, three multiple-car collisions on the Acle Straight have brought traffic to a standstill in Yarmouth, with many people and their families affected.
Talks of dualling the Acle Straight go back to the 1950s, with a headline in the Great Yarmouth Mercury reading: "Acle New Road may become a dual-way in five to seven years."
For longtime campaigner Mick Castle, the town has been left behind while it waits for "1960s-style infrastructure".
"You can't have a quarter of a million people on the coast with ports, energy and tourism industries and expect them to do it on a cart track," he said.
"At some point, people are going to have to wrestle with the idea that we need 1960s standard dual carriageways at least if we are going to have any future with road safety and economic development.
"Essentially, we have brand new bridges at Yarmouth and Lowestoft connected to the A47 by a B-road.
"It's not good enough."
Mr Castle acknowledged critics who have raised environmental concerns around the dualling of the Acle Straight and other parts of the A47 but said a dual carriageway would reduce the number of road-related fatalities.
"In a climate where everyone is talking about saving the planet and wanting to stop everything, it's hard for politicians to wake up to the idea we've got to dual that road," he said.
"But they have to step up."
Councillor and chair of the A47 Alliance Graham Plant said the group continues to lobby until the entire length of the A47 is dualled.
He said: "Over the years, that road has cost lives.
"And just in the past two weeks, multiple families have been affected by collisions on the Acle Straight alone.
"It remains imperative that the Acle Straight is dualled."
Mr Plant said he was disappointed that East Anglia had been excluded from upcoming investments from National Highways to dual more of the A47.
In July, the county council wrote to the Department for Transport and National Highways expressing alarm and frustration over the lack of solid commitment to one of Norfolk's most important roads.
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