‘They’ve knocked down hundreds of trees’: concerns over Cornwall’s new anti-gridlock road

The infamous A30 summer holiday bottleneck will go when eight miles of dual carriageway opens in March. But for some, the cost is too high

As cars and lorries snail interminably along the A30 in Cornwall - the county's notorious trunk road - the words of the furious driver in John Betjeman's poem, Meditation On The A30, seem befitting: I can't go on crawling like this!"

Such frustrations are especially acute in summertime when tourists compete with hauliers, tractors and local residents for space on the asphalt, many of them en route to the coastal hotspots of Perranporth and St Ives. But those days could soon be gone.