While people I greatly respect continue to fight the good fight with Highways England I find it hard to continue to engage in the discussions/debates and consultations. Have always been against building new roads based on the premise there far too many already - so a tunnel of any length seems an anathema to me (let the good earth sleep). While at a friend's house yesterday I picked up Tom Fort's book about the A303 with its iconic front cover - see article below ...
https://www.theguardian.com/bo[...]4/a303-highway-sun-fort-review
"But the A303 has much history on its side – or to either side. Fort's account of succeeding attempts to explain Stonehenge are worth the detour, and I am inclined to agree with his suggestion that the real reason that nothing has been done about diverting the road away from the stones is not due to the intransigence of the various departments, but down to the fact that, deep down, we kind of like the arrangement of road and monument the way it is."
Feeling this view is perhaps now redundant I didn't borrow the book as I originally intended.
But this morning I read another viewpoint by Professor George Nash. This is a viewpoint I get ... please take a little minute to read it.
https://heritageaction.wordpre[...]enge-tunnel-another-viewpoint/
Reply | with quote | Posted by tjj 8th February 2017ce 09:46 |
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