Re: Salisbury bypass | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

Stonehenge and its Environs 134

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Highways England Consultation — A303/Stonehenge

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nigelswift Jan 19, 2017 13:26:36

Replying to Evergreen Dazed

"Probably a deeply unfashionable thing to say, but I love driving, and being able to glimpse stonehenge from the road ...."
Not unfashionable at all. It's one of the Great Views and it would be entirely lost.

"Does anybody have access to a report on the direct disturbance or damage to scheduled monuments in the area?"
Proximity to Blick Mead and disruption of the Winter solstice spectacle are 2 issues but of course if you dig anywhere there you wreck something and what that will be is yet to be known..

Evergreen Dazed Jan 22, 2017 09:14:40

Replying to nigelswift

It is difficult to accurately predict of course, but surely a vital thing to work out is whether, if the view to the stones was lost, would traffic be reduced?

As in, if the tunnel was built would there still be the same volume of traffic on that road?
If so, then that does support the case for a *long* tunnel.

Or is it the case that the 303 is only so busy because people divert to it so they can see the stones?

Imagine the building of a tunnel at great expense financially and archaeologically, only to find the traffic using it is 50% of what it was.

If this were the case (I suppose you could get close to a decent answer with survey) then perhaps a one way or toll system would work out to be the better option?