The £45 million A46 dual-carriageway Batheaston/Swainswick bypass opened in summer 1996. It joins the main A4 road which used to follow the Fosse Way which runs through the village. Despite the expense, the road failed to achieve its original objectives to link to the A36 either side of Bathampton and so alleviate traffic through London Road and Cleveland Bridge. It is also on the route of the Limestone Link a long-distance footpath from the Mendip Hills in Somerset to Cold Aston in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire.