National Highways’ A303 Sparkford to Ilchester upgrade in Somerset has opened to traffic today, seeing a 3.5-mile section of single carriageway improved to a dual carriageway.
The company says this will promote economic growth, improve journey times, and increase safety by unlocking a major bottleneck in the county because the new section will significantly reduce travel time in the region, cutting congestion throughout the school holidays and for daily commuters.
As well as the dualling, the scheme has involved the building of three new junctions at Camel Cross, Downhead and Hazlegrove which safely separate traffic, built two new structures, a bridge at Steart Hill and an underpass at Hazlegrove, which will allow all road users to cross the A303 safely.
It’s also excavated and redistributed 900,000 cubic metres of earth and soil to create cuttings up to 10m in depth and embankments up to 12m in height to provide a level route for the new road and created four hectares, equivalent to 1,352 football pitches, of woodland and linear belts of trees and more than six miles of new hedgerow.
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