Stonehenge and its Environs 134
Image by Chance

Mustard wrote:
tjj wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-24403775
Sounds like NIMBY bollocks to me. The only difference for traffic is that it now needs to turn right at Airman's Corner instead of carrying straight on.
That’s what I thought. There’s no pleasing some people - they protest when new roads are built and they protest when old ones are close ;-)

Looks like the widening of the A303 (where it passes Stonehenge) is now back on the cards though so there are three possibilities (excluding a flyover fourth :-)

1) A dual carriageway above ground (no thanks, that’s going to increase the speed of vehicles and the noise generated by those vehicles as they whiz past the monument).
2) A dual carriageway tunnel.
3) A dual carriageway bypass.

I don’t know how feasible the latter is but it might be the only viable solution in the end (but wait for the howls of protest along the lines of, “It’ll destroy the environment.” and, It’ll wreck the archaeological record.” No it won’t, if done sensitively and correctly it’ll improve the environment around one of the world’s greatest monuments (which is what we’re talking about) and it’ll no doubt add to our understanding of the archaeological record of the area.

Littlestone wrote:
Mustard wrote:
tjj wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-24403775
Sounds like NIMBY bollocks to me. The only difference for traffic is that it now needs to turn right at Airman's Corner instead of carrying straight on.
That’s what I thought. There’s no pleasing some people - they protest when new roads are built and they protest when old ones are close ;-)
Is that one of your side swipes at me Mr Littlestone ... tch! tch! Would that you could manage to do it directly at least once. I will always protest when new roads are built but like many others was happy to see the section A344 past Stonehenge closed and grassed over. I was merely documenting a news item on the plight of local people.