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nigelswift Feb 14, 2015 05:52:15
Replying to The Eternal

The Eternal wrote:
I've never understood all the fuss about the closure of the road past Stonehenge.
Something WILL be lost if car travellers can't see the stones but apart from that the main "fuss" is about the destruction that would be created at the approaches to a "short" tunnel.

The Eternal wrote:
any decision will upset a lot of people.
Personally I wouldn't be upset, I just think the timing is probably connected with the push at Stonehenge and it probably won't happen.

(I'm also not sure if it's possible or likely they would ban most traffic while leaving it open for 2.5 million blue badge holders. That didn't happen at the A344, disabled people were banned too, so why would it be different at Avebury?)

O ocifant
ocifant Feb 14, 2015 06:07:33
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
(I'm also not sure if it's possible or likely they would ban most traffic while leaving it open for 2.5 million blue badge holders. That didn't happen at the A344, disabled people were banned too, so why would it be different at Avebury?)
That's the point though, isn't it? To 'open up the landscape' they'd have to *remove* the road, like at Stonehenge, but that's extremely unlikely to happen if it remains for farm vehicles and locals (defined/controlled how, exactly?)

So what's the point?

It doesn't affect me directly as I seldom visit these days, and we have a blue badge anyway - the only way my missus can get to really see or experience the sites is for me to drive past them...

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