Stonehenge Proposals

Stonehenge and its Environs 134

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nigelswift Feb 17, 2004 07:55:32

The Stonehenge Inquiry opens today. Not sure what I "should" think about the issue....

The tunnel as proposed? per the Stonehenge Project http://www.thestonehengeproject.org/.....

or "something else" per the Stonehenge Alliance http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:IjppWVFepfgJ:www.savestonehenge.org.uk/alliance.html+Stonehenge+Alliance&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8

I've been vaguely just grateful for the bored tunnel, but should we all be clamouring for a longer one? or is that just too expensive and unrealistic?

pebblesfromheaven Feb 17, 2004 08:46:24

Replying to nigelswift

There's quite a few organisations mentioned on the second website,

http://www.savestonehenge.org.uk/alliance.html

but where could 'our' HA fit into this?
I'm confused about how HA is different from, say, RESCUE or ASLAN...
[And a bit unfortunate that HA is on here as the highways agency.]

.o0O0o.

Nat Feb 17, 2004 09:42:07

Replying to nigelswift

Was watching this on the news this morning... and am completely flumoxed over the whole issue. Is the tunnel a good thing or a bad thing???

Will it go right underneath the stones, surely it can't as it could damage them?

What is the consensus from you?

I really don't know. I've enjoyed driving past Stonehenge and looking at it from the car, but would also love to walk around it without having the buzz of the vehicles in the background....

Will it become too commercial...

Am I waffling crap.. probably :o)

Nat xx

BlueGloves Feb 17, 2004 09:53:20

Replying to nigelswift

What I think about the issue is: 'I can't remember when I was last in a motorcar'. I think it was about six months ago. When people look toward me for social approval over their new vehicle I look at them as though they had a great hairy mole on their nose and hadn't learnt to ...

This may be evolution or it may be prejudice. The use of these boxes of tin has certainly contributed to extreme anthropocentrism - to the detriment of the longevity of the species. Because they're so low and streamlined, now, you can't see hardly anything anyway.

yours hastily,

Edward Tate-Gusset (retd.)