Stuart Minting is the editor of The Yorkshire Post's CountryWeek Magazine.
Highways bosses have spoken of their optimism that major road building proposals to create dual carriageways to improve links between the east and west of the country will get underway within the next five years, decades after plans to improve the routes were first developed.
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