The chancellor has promised to fix the A303 in his first Budget of the Conservative Party's majority government.
Rishi Sunak referred to the road as one of the 海角视频's "most important regional arteries" in his speech today (Wednesday, March 11).
Before he announced his plans for the A303, which runs past Stonehenge, Mr Sunak revealed a number of measures for roads around the 海角视频 including a new £2.5billion pothole fund.
He said: "There is one more road I would like to mention. It is one of our most important regional arteries. It is one of those totemic projects symbolising delay and obstruction.
"Governments have been trying to fix it since the 1980s. Every year millions of cars craw along it in traffic ruining the backdrop to one of our most important historic landmarks.
"So to the many honourable and right honourable members who have campaigned for this moment I say this: The A303. This government is going to get it done."
The move to fix the A303 is among a number of planned infrastructure investments announced by the chancellor.
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He added: "Today, I’m announcing the biggest ever investment in strategic roads and motorway - over £27billion of tarmac. That will pay for work on over 20 connections to ports and airports, over 100 junctions, 4,000 miles of road.
"I’m announcing new investment in local roads, alongside a new £2.5billion pothole fund - that’s £500m every single year; enough to fill, by the end of the Parliament, 50 million potholes."
He also revealed plans to improve the A417, which runs through Cirencester and Gloucester.
Tim Jones, chairman of South West Business Council and a board member of the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership said the Chancellor’s announcement that the A303 improvement will “get done” was the major win for the region.
He said he was “delighted” to hear what Mr Sunak had to say and added: “We will secure £40billion of extra investment in life of that project. It’s a major step forward.
“We will be dusting down a lot of investment plans. This is a big boost for a lot of sectors, particularly tourism and leisure.”
He said the region could also potentially benefit from other announcements around further and higher education, new hospitals, green businesses, R&D investment and the road programme aside from the A303, but said there was a lack of detail in the Chancellor’s speech.
But he said the Budget had been generally positive for business and added: “It’s an investment Budget, but let’s wait until we see the detail, there lies our future prosperity.”