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Andy,

Who the Hell knows what's going on? Confusion reigns. I think all on here want the road well away from the Stones, but what that will that mean in terms of commercial exploitation is anyone's guess.
Let's face it, they're (EH) charging a lot of money to see a ruin, and for very little added value, apart from an earpiece that tells you what you can read from a shit book, which they also charge for. Sorry, you can also buy a fridge magnet.
How they will still make money from a site without gates and turnstiles is the worrying thing. They're surely not going from a big fee per head for nothing to no fee per head for an improved site in which you're free to walk, are they?

Suspiciously yours,
TE.

Hi there,
Apart from some bluster about free access in the 1997 'Millennium Park' proposal, conceived by English Heritage and the Tussauds Group (which was dropped soon after), no other proposal has considered that all the fences will come down and everyone will be free to wander at will without paying. In fact, the visitor cost as a result of the various proposals hasn't really been discussed in any depth as far as I know. I remember that Chris Chippindale and a colleague did some research a few years back, which ended up concluding that we'd be looking at a cost of at least £10 a head!
All the best,
Andy

Andy is the author of 'Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion', described by SchNEWS as 'by far the best bit of modern British social history I've seen', and the editor of 'The Battle of the Beanfield', described by Ronald Hutton as 'probably the definitive work on its subject, something very rarely achieved in practice'.
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