A spine road for the Potteries, making sense of the jumbled towns and villages that cluster around Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme and keeping the M6 free of local traffic.
Today you can catch a train to France. You can even put your car on it, and be there in less than an hour. But in the 1980s, Euro Tunnel had competition - including plans to build a motorway across the English Channel.