Balloon roundabout, has a grand vista of the Severn Valley. After the roundabout and the Air Balloon pub, the road turns sharply and there is a steep gradient. This is a bottleneck at peak times, and there are plans for a dual-carriageway section here. These plans were listed within a roads expansion programme pledged during the government's 2014 Autumn Statement for delivery during the coming 5–8 years. The £36m Brockworth Bypass opened in December 1995, and included the new junction 11a of the M5. Gloucester (M5) to Hope under Dinmore Through Gloucester, the road overlaps the A40 Gloucester northern bypass, and from the end of this bypass at a roundabout the road goes north-west through the village of Maisemore, past Hartpury College, then through the village of Hartpury. The A417 then passes through the twin villages of Corse and Staunton. It crosses the M50 Ross Spur motorway at junction 2, then meets the Ledbury bypass, where the road noticeably widens out, and has many large roundabouts. Between Gloucester and Ledbury there are many changes of speed limit. From Ledbury it goes west, overlapping the A438, then at a set of traffic lights known as the Trumpet crossroads, the A417 goes north-west along a more high-hedged, narrow road. It meets the A49 at a wide junction at Hope under Dinmore just south of Leominster. Junctions {| border=1 cellpadding=2 style="margin-left:1em; margin-bottom: 1em; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" class="wikitable" |- align="center" bgcolor="#00703C" style="color: #ffd200;font-size:120%;" | colspan="3" | A417 (T) |- align="center" | Northbound exits | Junction | Southbound exits |- align="center" | Ross A40, Ledbury (A417), Chepstow (A48) Cheltenham A40, Tewkesbury, Bristol (M5) | Elm Bridge Court | Start of A417 (T) |-align="center" | Gloucester (A38) | Corinium Avenue Roundabout | Gloucester (A38) |-align="center" | Local routes | Zoons Court Roundabout | Local routes |- align="center" | The Midlands M5 | rowspan="2"| M5 J11A | No exit or access |- align="center" | The South West Bristol (M5), Gloucester Business Park Exit only | The SOUTH WEST Bristol (M5) |-align="center" | Cheltenham, Stroud A46 | Primrose Vale | Cheltenham, Stroud A46 |- align="center" | Stow on the Wold A436, Oxford (A40), Cheltenham (East) (A435) | Air Balloon Roundabout | Stow on the Wold A436, Oxford (A40) |- align="center" | Cowley, Caudle Green, Brimpsfield | Cowley Roundabout | Cowley, Caudle Green, Brimpsfield |-align="center" | Syde, Winstone, Elkstone | Winstone Junction | Syde, Winstone, Elkstone