Highways England operates, maintains and improves England’s motorways and major A-roads, also known as the strategic road network.

Our network totals around 4,300 miles. While this represents only 2% of all roads in

England by length, these roads carry a third of all traffic by mileage and two-thirds

of all heavy goods traffic.

England’s strategic road network forms the economic backbone of the country, is open

24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is relied on by communities and businesses

to get from A to B.

Our ambition is to ensure all our major roads are more dependable, durable and,

most importantly, safe. In pursuit of that aim, we’re delivering £15 billion of investment

in our network as described in the first Government’s Road Investment Strategy

(RIS1) 2015-2020.

As part of this Strategy, the Department for Transport has made money available to

develop a scheme to upgrade the remaining single carriageway section of the A417,

with the aim of constructing the road in the second RIS (RIS2) 2020-2025, subject to

funding availability.

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