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The Twyford Down cutting was ‘built’ on a lie. Famously the marked out area where it was proposed, was just half the width of the real cutting.

The M27 isn't set in, around and through the stunning South Downs.

@BG is in that pic on the top deck, on his way to see Brighton & Hove Rangers.

Paraphrasing from Hollywood, let’s build it and they will come. They being lorries and cars.

Spot on. It would've generated huge new volumes in traffic in its own right, for example making trips to S'ton, Pompey, Dorset, Devon far more doo-able. After a few years the calls would've come for three or four lanes each way, or for the A272 to be turned into a trunk road to take the...

In the 70's there were large signs by new bypasses 'A27 Folkstone to Honiton Trunk Road'. In the 80's or 90's many large homes on the A27 in posh bits of Worthing were compulsorily bought up, and boarded up. Quietly sold to the public years later - that part seemed to get no publicity.

Your scheme was unambitious, barely touching the problems. The authorities should announce a three lanes each way trunk road, entirely on high stilts, in dead straight lines as follows: a) Truleigh Hill (NW Shoreham) to Swandean (NW Worthing); and b) Crossbush (SE Arundel) to Avisford Park (a...