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Stonehenge road closure approved

nigelswift N
nigelswift Nov 2, 2011 11:14:49
Replying to Mustard

I do try to love EH, honest, but they make it hard. They have this lovely idyllic video of the stones in splendid isolation and re-united with the landscape with both the A344 and the chain link fence gone but they say not a word about the implications of that and what must concern people – if the big fence is going then is there or isn’t there freedom to access the stones? Is it credible they’ve got this far and haven’t decided? Or is it that they have decided but are frit to say? It has to be one or the other.

Personally I think they’ll HAVE to restrict access because of erosion and security issues and that means fences, hopefully lower ones and hopefully further away. But why don’t they just say so to the taxpayers that pay their wages?

M Mustard
Mustard Nov 2, 2011 11:22:22
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
Personally I think they’ll HAVE to restrict access because of erosion and security issues and that means fences, hopefully lower ones and hopefully further away. But why don’t they just say so to the taxpayers that pay their wages?
That may depend on the apathy and laziness of the British public. If it's a long walk from the nearest parking place, I doubt many will bother to get off their backsides and make the trek. It may be that there'll only be a trickle of non-paying visitors. It would certainly be nice to know what EH actually have planned though.

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