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Travelling to Polperro, and travel around Cornwall, is a relatively simple matter nowadays. Whereas as recently as ten years ago a trip from Exeter, at the south-western end of the M5 Motorway to a destination in Cornwall and back would represent a day trip for delivery or bus drivers, today there is a fast route straight through, avoiding all the traditional traffic bottlenecks. This new road system has the added advantage that the towns and villages that used to form these traffic bottlenecks, with nose to tail traffic and heavy lorries trundling through them, are now free from all but local traffic. 

In many instances, apart from the modern vehicles at the kerb, these towns have gone back to the atmosphere they had 30 or more years ago, as relatively traffic free areas where it is again quite safe for children to walk, it is easy to talk without having to compensate for traffic noise, and many cafes and pubs have gone back to outside seating due to the huge reduction in emissions from vehicles.
 

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MS Auto Route screen grab, with the route highlighted in green.