Internationally, it will be the decision to build a tunnel to take the main road away from Stonehenge which will get the headlines.
But for the untold masses of people in this country who have discovered that a twenty-first century transport system means spending half your life sitting in a traffic jam or on a broken-down train, it will be the hope that, perhaps, the decisions will make travelling slightly less of an ordeal.
Spending money building new lanes on roads is a policy somersault. When Jeremy Paxman met the Transport Secretary he asked him a simple question. Did he want to reduce the level of road traffic?
ALISTAIR DARLING:
(Transport Secretary)
My objective is to tackle congestion. When people say do you want to reduce the level of road traffic, the difficulty I have is, if you have a growing economy and more people in work, then people will want to move around more. My approach is this.