Plans for a new multi-million pound link road to be built off the A500 in Stoke-on-Trent have been approved.
The new one-kilometre stretch will link the city's Festival Park and Wolstanton roundabout off the D-road.
The £40m road is expected to reduce congestion and speed up journey times when it opens in 2022.
And work is expected to start on the Etruria Valley Link Road within months.
This will include improving two roundabouts at the Wolstanton junction, creating a new viaduct over the West Coast Mainline and creating a new central roundabout linking Shelton Boulevard and Festival Way to the A500.
A new canal bridge crossing and a mini-roundabout will also be created as part of the scheme which is being funded by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, the Department for Transport, the Regional Growth Fund and Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
Councillor Daniel Jellyman, cabinet member for infrastructure, told : "The link road will be one of the biggest and most complex projects the council has delivered in decades.
"The project is backed by the Department for Transport at a national level which recognises, like we do, the link road’s huge potential to boost the city’s economy and businesses by reducing congestion and further opening up an employment site which is already home to thousands of workers and global companies."
The Department for Transport is still to make a final funding decision on the link road.