A303 improvement plans move forward?

IMPROVEMENTS to a busy traffic “corridor” through the South West region took a major step forward at a meeting with the Department for Transport last Friday (January 24, 2014).

At a very positive meeting with Somerset, Devon, Wiltshire and Dorset Councils, Highways Agency, Local Enterprise Partnership, business groups and other interest parties the Department for Transport shared details of their study of the A303, A358 and A30 route and confirmed that they will be presenting a strong business case and recommendations to Ministers by the end of this year.

The meeting also sought to establish whether there are individual sections of the route which could be constructed early-on in the Government’s new roads programme which will start in 2015.

Somerset County Council’s deputy leader, Cllr David Hall, said: “Improving the A303 corridor will bring considerable economic benefits to the South West.

“We and our partners have long campaigned for these improvements and following the work we presented to Ministers last year I am really pleased that the Department for Transport is now taking forward our case.”

The Government announced in July last year that it would tackle some of the most notorious and long-standing road hot spots in the country including the A303, A358 and A30 corridor.

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