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The A36/A350 Corridor Alliance is an umbrella organisation that came out of the Twyford Down campaign and was set up in 1993. It brought together local environmental groups, originally along a corridor from Southampton to Bristol, but in more recent years has widened to cover a general corridor from the south coast in Dorset and Hampshire to the western M4.  

ACA’s aim, in the post-motorway-building age, has been primarily to prevent a creeping process of linking ostensibly local relief roads into a new, but undeclared, strategic corridor. Over 16 years a number of highly unsuitable road schemes have been successfully contested, from Wellow Bypass in Hampshire, through the Salisbury Bypass in several forms, the Wylye Valley Road, the Codford-Heytesbury link and most recently the Westbury Bypass in Wiltshire. Despite the defeats of these schemes, the road-building ambitions - in particular of Wiltshire and Dorset County Councils - are undiminished, though increasingly unrealistic. Still-desired schemes include Shaftesbury Bypass, a new alignment of the A350 on to the C13 route, Yarnbrook/West Ashton, Melksham and Chippenham.