A COUNCILLOR is urging county transport bosses to look at creating a new link road to a Hampshire motorway.

Cllr Paul Bicknell wants Hampshire County Council to investigate whether a new link connecting Leigh Road in Eastleigh with the M27 going towards Fareham is feasible.

In the motion, which will be put to Eastleigh Borough Council today, he argues it would help to reduce traffic going through the town centre to get to the next available motorway junction.

It is one of a number of traffic measures he will be calling for at tonight’s full council meeting at the Ageas Bowl. At present drivers have to join the M27 eastbound from junction five near Southampton Airport, whereas they can join both the M3 northbound and southbound at Leigh Road, which also leads on to the M27 westbound towards Southampton and Bournemouth.

Cllr Bicknell, an Eastleigh ward councillor and chair of the Eastleigh Local Area Committee, said to get to the eastbound motorway, traffic currently goes along Passfield Avenue, Chestnut Avenue and Stoneham Lane, clogging up roads around the town centre, adding to the town centre’s air pollution problems.

“This is just something that needs looking at,” he said.

The meeting starts at 7pm.