A Westcountry businessman wants to extend the M5 motorway to Plymouth inside a bid to place the city on a par with other Links of London parts from the region and entice significant companies to relocate.
Nigel Rees, regional manager of Calbarrie, a fire risk evaluation and equipment servicing company, claims growth during the city is being stunted from the lack of infrastructure and has launched a petition.
He aims to gather a hundred,000 signatures and force a Household of Commons debate around the problem.
Now he's calling for help.
Mr Rees said: "If a brand new organization seems to relocate to the South West they may not consider Plymouth since the motorway ends at Exeter.
"Exeter has a superior train and airport hyperlink to London but Plymouth doesn't, so if we extend the M5 we will make certain business enterprise growth and thus jobs within the city.
"There are additional persons out of work in Plymouth than Exeter and this can be greatly Links of London Charms influenced from the travel infrastructure.
"At least this may enable the folks in energy in London to recognise there is certainly another city while in the South West apart from Bristol and Exeter."
At the moment the M5 ends just south of Exeter with motorists opting for the A30 to Cornwall or the A38 Devon Expressway to Plymouth as well as A380 to Torbay.
Neil Mitchell, an independent regional transport analyst, primarily based in Devon, commended the enterprise from the new campaign, which revives a want expressed a lot of years ago.
Having said that, he predicted that widening the A38 would result in "immense devastation" by way of Devon and mentioned current environmental legislation and attitudes made the perform "impossible".
"There is often a long history of attempts to secure the extension of the M5 along with the compromise inside the 1990s Links of London Sale was the Devon Expressway," he added.
