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The A303: Highway to the Sun

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In March, Highways England revealed the names of three international joint venture contractors which will tender for the tunnel construction work. These are: BMJV, comprising Bouygues Travaux Publics and J Murphy & Sons; HDJV, (Hochtief Infrastructure and Dragados); and MORE JV (FCC Construcción, Salini Impregilo SPA and BeMo Tunnelling UK). Car dependence

more miles of motorway by early 1980s will bring growth to less prosperous areas". The Times. 24 June 1971. p.4 . Retrieved 19 August 2016. Based on experience, project costs tend to grow rather than fall, at least in the early years,” said Amyas Morse, the head of the National Audit Office (NAO) in 2019. The road then bypasses Ilchester and RNAS Yeovilton and widens to dual carriageway again. Between Ilchester and Shores Bridge (over the River Parrett, east of South Petherton) the road follows the course of the Roman Fosse Way. At Yeovilton the road becomes dual two lane again, and connects with the A37 which joins it until it reaches the end of the bypass. This final section of dual carriageway ends at South Petherton. It runs north of Ilminster as a three-lane road where it meets the A358, providing access to the M5 motorway. [4] [7] But the A303 has much history on its side – or to either side. Fort's account of succeeding attempts to explain Stonehenge are worth the detour, and I am inclined to agree with his suggestion that the real reason that nothing has been done about diverting the road away from the stones is not due to the intransigence of the various departments, but down to the fact that, deep down, we kind of like the arrangement of road and monument the way it is. The flesh-and-blood example of progress v nature here resides in the case of the great bustard, the world's heaviest flying bird and so, therefore, one of the most impractical, whose attempts to re-establish itself on Salisbury Plain, courtesy of the admirably quixotic Great Bustard Group, would seem to be doomed. (In an aside, Fort has an unkind word for those who have reintroduced beavers to Scotland, and I will take issue with him over that, should we ever meet.)Early Assessment and Sifting Tool Forms (PDF) (Report). Wiltshire Council. 2013. p.11 . Retrieved 19 August 2016. Some long distance (as well as local) traffic still uses the A30 for the same reason, particularly traffic originating at Yeovil, Sherborne, Shaftesbury and even Salisbury. This ought to go A3088/A303 but I bet most of it stays on the A30. The crunch will come when the "acceptable alternative" becomes unacceptable due to over use. I would suspect that it would be far cheaper to dual the remaining S2 bits of the A303 than widen large chunks of the M4 & M5 to D4M or D4HS. (although you might have to add in widening the M3 to D4M as well to cope with the extra A303 traffic). I looked up the AADTs for the more recent A66 improvements between Penrith and Scotch Corner, and they seem to have been in the 15-16000 area. Admittedly not such major schemes, but D2 improvements nevertheless. Travis, John F (1993). The Rise of the Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750–1900. University of Exeter Press. p.64. ISBN 978-0-859-89392-3.

Rather fun, though. As was singing in a pub with a pair of ram's horns on my head. And talking road-kill with the country's leading expert on the subject (if you ask me nicely I'll give you the recipe for fox casserole).Renaming the A303 as A30 would be quite achievable with some green patches but I don't think renaming the A30 as A303 is on, as it would be (a) too confusing and (b) most of it would not merit a three digit road.

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