Stoke-on-Trent is growing and the A500 provides a strategic link connecting the city with the M6, local housing and the Etruria Valley Development. To ease congestion and improve safety between Porthill and Wolstanton junctions, a £17.5m scheme was proposed to widen this section of the A500 from two lanes to three in each direction. The extra lane would allow local traffic to hop between junctions avoiding the main flow
