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Mustard M
Mustard Oct 8, 2013 17:11:50
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
Are EH as keen to see the back of the road through Avebury as they are at SH? If not, why not? The A303 is nowhere near as evasive as the road passing straight through the middle of a stone circle of WHS status!
Bit different though, isn't it? Even if you dug a tunnel under Avebury, there's still a living community that would need vehicular access, so the road couldn't be removed. Best you could do would be to significantly reduce traffic.

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Oct 8, 2013 17:18:49
Replying to Mustard

Mustard wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Are EH as keen to see the back of the road through Avebury as they are at SH? If not, why not? The A303 is nowhere near as evasive as the road passing straight through the middle of a stone circle of WHS status!
Bit different though, isn't it? Even if you dug a tunnel under Avebury, there's still a living community that would need vehicular access, so the road couldn't be removed. Best you could do would be to significantly reduce traffic.
I was thinking bye-pass and leaving the road down to the church and past the Red Lion the other way to Swindon open and cutting the road through the middle of the circle off. Along those lines anyway.