 A "Green Update" newsletter came out in Winter 2007 with news on conservation work including protection of the Great Crested Newt.St Ives is just off the A1307 (former A14) road on what was a particularly congested section of the route from the UK's second city, Birmingham, to the port of Felixstowe and thence to the mainland of Europe Before the opening of the new bypass, this section of road also linked the northern end of the M11 (Cambridge and region) to the A1 and the whole of the North of England and Scotland.The new A14 bypass for St Ives and Huntingdon opened in December 2019, leaving the existing alignment near Swavesey and passing to the south of both market towns.