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<p>On 1<sup>st</sup> December, the Government published the first Road Investment
Strategy, setting out how we will invest £15 billion in over 100 schemes across the
road network. It included a long-term commitment to invest over £2 billion in the
A303/A30/A358 corridor and proposed to start this process with three major improvements;
dualling the A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down and between Sparkford and Ilchester,
and providing a dual carriageway link from the M5 at Taunton to the A303. The Highways
Agency will now start to develop the proposals but each will be subject to differing
timescales depending on detailed design and progress through planning processes. Our
aim is for construction of these proposals to start towards the end of this Road Period
which runs from 2015/16 to 2019/20.</p>
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