Some Positive Rumblings From the House of Commons

After a day of Press interest in the STAG campaign to get the A303 dualled as quickly as possible, with reports on the BBC's South Today this morning, we now have a report from STAG's very own man inside the Palace of Westminster.

Our intrepid correspondent observed:

"In short, a positive session in which all agreed the imperative economic need, but many procedural hoops to jump through before we know what the consultation will bring.

There is a general view that a long bore tunnel is much more achievable/acceptable now than it was 10 years ago: financially, technically, socially and archaeologically."






We hope to have more a detailed review in the morning.

Our correspondent ended with the following point.  "Our MP, John Glen, did us proud today!"  Nice to be able to say something like this.

John also forwarded the following update from the Roads Minister, Robert Goodwill:

It will be interesting to see the metrics they propose to use to measure cost benefits - and how they propose to reconcile purely financial factors with less tangible, but equally relevant ones.