Are we there yet? The familiar refrain reserved for lengthy car journeys could equally apply to Hull's long-awaited Castle Street improvement scheme.
It's just over 20 years since plans for a separated junction at Mytongate were first put forward.
They were subsequently shelved only for lobbying to continue over the need to do something about the city centre bottleneck.
Fast forward to earlier this week and the current upgrade scheme, which is uncannily similar to the 1990s version, got a fleeting mention in the Government's latest £15bn infrastructure spending plans.
It's already pretty certain the Castle Street project will start sometime in 2016.
Preparations have been going on for some time, including the recent appeal by the Highways Agency to trace relatives who think they might have ancestors buried in the Holy Trinity burial ground, which lies on the proposed route of the new-look A63.
However, we are still waiting for the development order covering final details of the scheme to be submitted.
The date for that has been put back until early next year, which is when we will also get to see the preferred design for the new pedestrian bridge linking Princes Dock and the Marina.
At this stage in the proceed- ings, I realise it might be a late for a rethink.
But I continue to have nagging doubts about what we are going to end up with.
The bridge could well end up being iconic, but I'm still struggling to understand why a suitably designed subway could not be built under Castle Street between Princes Dock Side and Humber Dock Street.
The argument over ground conditions surely doesn't apply if they are planning to lower Hull's busiest road into the ground just a few hundred yards further west.
A wide, well-lit subway has got to be better than clamber- ing up and down a bridge.
Then there's Castle Street itself and how it will look once the work is completed.
Unless I've missed some- thing, it's going to be one long, smooth drive for motorists, but a bit of a nightmare for pedestrians to cross.
My own preference would have been an elevated road from Myton Bridge to the Daltry Street flyover, leaving plenty of room underneath for the people to move freely between the city centre and the waterfront.
Maybe 20 years from now, someone will take my ideas and turn them into reality.
