The WECA Will Have Powers and Funding Over Local Transport, Including: • £1 Billion of Investment to Deliver Infrastructure to Boost Economic Growth
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The WECA will have powers and funding over local transport, including: • £1 billion of investment to deliver infrastructure to boost economic growth. • Devolution of multi-year transport budgets, enabling the area to deliver transport projects with greater certainty that the funds are in place. • Further powers over transport, including responsibility for a Key Route Network of selected local roads. • There are also high traffic flows on the A370 through villages in North Somerset, and on minor routes in Bath & North East Somerset such as the B3130 through Chew Magna, creating both congestion and environmental problems in these communities • Traffic to the Airport also uses other routes, many of which are not appropriate for heavy traffic flows. These include routes through the Chew Valley from the east and minor roads through North Somerset from the north and south. • A37 Bypasses Analyses have shown that there is not a strong case for major transport improvements on the A37 corridor between Midsomer Norton and Bristol. • There are problems caused by traffic on the A37 through Pensford, Temple Cloud and Clutton, but the issues are mostly related to community severance and environmental quality in the villages. • There are not significant congestion or delay problems in the villages. This means that bypasses for the villages would be unlikely to generate significant user benefits on the road network. • Furthermore, the costs of the schemes would be high, particularly in Pensford, where it would be necessary to cross the valley of the River Chew. .