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A3 About the Road The A3 is the old and historic London to Portsmouth road, built to link the capital with the main naval port. Its significance was welcomed by local villages and towns that straddle the route, with travellers providing the local economies a boost and well-earned prestige. Due to its strategic importance and lack of parallel motorway (apart from the short A3(M) bypassing Waterlooville at the southern end), the road has been subject to some serious investment and upgrades since the mid 1920s. Many of the villages and towns have been by-passed, the first of which were Guildford and Kingston-upon-Thames, and the road turned into a high quality dual carriageway for virtually its entire length. Many sections of route have even been built to motorway standards, with rumours circulating for a number of years of the A3 becoming M3 (with the M3 changing to M30). The two lesser standard sections are around Esher - where there are a number of central reserve openings and crossover points - and the congested Hindhead section, where the A3 is single carriageway for about four miles passing through the village and the sensitive Devil's Punch Bowl. However, this section is to be by-passed and tunnelled, with the old road through the Bowl being returned to open heath land.
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