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Indeed. The interesting thing about the dual carriageway proposals that were put forward in the early 1990s was the fact that a very high proportion of the existing local traffic that travels on the road between Polegate and Lewes wouldn't have been allowed access on to the new dual...

I doubt if we will ever see another formally designated motorway in the UK (in the sense of a new road numbered "M something"). Look at the recent upgrading of that bit of the A23 at Handcross, as an example. A high spec trunk road, but nevertheless open to learner drivers and other...

That's the word on the street out our way. And there will be a lot of local consultation on the detail.

There never was a plan to build a motorway from Folkestone to Honiton. It was simply the case that the Department for Transport (or its predecessors) always liked to give names to bits of the trunk road network. They came up with the "Folkestone to Honiton Trunk Road" back in the late 1970s...

Stephen Lloyd supports a dual carriageway scheme, Norman Baker has always opposed it. If there is a political motive behind today's announcement, I would say it's a Tory plan to embarrass the Lib Dems.

I had a conversation last month with a former local councillor who has had some contact with people from the Highways Agency who are involved in drawing up the proposals for the A27 in the Lewes area. He said that he was AMAZED to discover that the Highways Agency team were completely unaware...