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Motorists face diversions of between 20 and 30 miles when the south and north bridges at Birchanger Green are closed for repairs and resurfacing.
M11 from Bishop's Stortford to Saffron Walden and A120 from Stansted Airport to Braintree to benefit from maintenance and improvement work.
Work involving essential repairs and resurfacing of the north and south bridges at Birchanger Green junction 8 will take place over six weekends.
Besides the new junction 7a, the project saw the widening of B183 Gilden Way/Sheering Road and installation of a new link road.
The A1250 is closed between Stortford Hall Park and the Nags Head until Thursday as UK Power Networks carries out emergency maintenance.
The road works have come at the same time as temporary traffic lights in Silver Street and a planned closure of Church Road next week.
The national chain wants to turn a site off the B1256 at Start Hill, near the M11 junction 8 roundabout, into a logistics depot.
After Springthorpe brothers from Sidcup in Kent started causing damage, Crete-bound flight was diverted to Corfu so police could deal with them.
An HMRC investigation found Ahmed Elamin, 61, had nearly 50 shipments sent from Dubai, worth £236,081 in lost duty.
494 (Stansted Airport) Squadron Air Training Corps marks its 30th anniversary this year but faces eviction as part of redevelopment plans.