Transport

Our transport infrastructure, and the lack of investment in it over the past 20 years, continues not only to have a detrimental impact on our environment and quality of life, but also on our economy.

Seven out of ten businesses in West Sussex feel that local traffic congestion has a negative impact on their business. One in five say that they will have to consider relocating from Sussex unless the transport infrastructure is improved soon.

The lack of progress on a bypass at Arundel not only causes inconvenience in Arundel – with lengthy tailbacks an increasingly frequent occurrence – but as traffic attempts to cut through the South Downs and other unsuitable routes in the constituency to avoid the A27, there is a worrying impact not only on air quality in the area but on the rural environment as a whole.

The scheme for a new bypass at Arundel was elevated to the Conservative Government’s main roads programme in 1996. But it was de-prioritised two years later by the incoming Labour Government despite a twenty year campaign and broad agreement on the so-called pink-blue route having been reached as far back as 1993.

Nick continues to campaign vigorously for a bypass at Arundel and for other vital improvements to the A27 at Chichester and Worthing.

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