The Government has given the green light for a major new road for Shropshire. The road will connect the M54 in Shropshire with the M6 toll road.
The link will travel north out of the county before joining the toll road, which then heads south around the north of Birmingham.
The scheme, costing �55m, is part of a huge national road building programme announced by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling on Wednesday in the House of Commons.
However, plans for the Western Bypass around Wolverhampton and Stourbridge, which would have cut through the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, have been rejected on environmental grounds.
The �7bn road building programme - the biggest expansion of the motorway network for more than a decade - includes the announcement of a feasibility study on charging motorists to use busy routes.
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