Tony Orgee, cabinet member for community infrastructure, said the area would always be a "bottleneck", but described the addition of a new cycle lane as "a very positive step forward".

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Something of a bottleneck has been created by the slow-burning attempt to develop a second New York-area franchise, to go along with the Red Bulls, who play in Harrison, N.

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The council said the exisiting "traffic bottleneck" in Ely would have become a greater problem with increasing use of rail networks through the area.

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