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Freight Transport Association urge decision on Stonehenge road plan
by Simon at 10:34 08/08/07 (Blogs::Simon)
"FTA, and its members using the road, urge new Secretary of State Ruth Kelly to expedite a decision for which all interested parties have waited too long. If our prehistoric ancestors could construct something as complex and inspiring as Stonehenge, then why is it so difficult for our 21st century Government to provide us with a bypass which would benefit both environment and economy?"
http://www.tnn.co.uk/UKNews/plonearticle.2007-08-08.5482692721

... and just for Bruce, it appears on the TNN's website in a page entitled "TNN Tachomaster"
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simon

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Freight Transport Association urge decision on Stonehenge road plan Simon - 10:34 08/08/07
- Deleted User Account - 12:36 08/08/07
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Re: Freight Transport Association urge decision on Stonehenge road plan Simon - 13:03 08/08/07
The solution is either:

1) Go ahead with the published scheme (2.1km bored tunnel from King Barrow Ridge to Airman Crossroads)

or

2) Do nothing

The north and south routes are nonsense, put about as a desperate attempt to find 'cheaper' solutions than the tunnel itself.

Both routes would obliterate huge areas of the World Heritage Site.

The northern route would cut Stonehenge off from its wider context (Durrington Walls / Woodhenge etc).

The southern route would cut Stonehenge off from the other side of its environs - the Lake Group barrows, particularly.

Both are the antithesis of what the strategic plan for the WHS calls for - to restore Stonehenge in its original context as part of a unified mesolithic/neolithic/Bronze age landscape.

One option I've heard mentioned is to close the A303 across the WHS entirely and make a fast route to the south west along the A30 route instead.

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simon

- Deleted User Account - 14:56 08/08/07
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Re: Freight Transport Association urge decision on Stonehenge road plan Simon - 15:34 08/08/07
Solstice Services are an attempt to guess where the new Visitor Centre's going to be sited (ie on the opposite side of the road), and piggyback a load of stripmall outlets on to the location - including at least one hotel.

Actually, it wouldn't be too bad if the A303 stopped right there - they could terminate it in a great big underground carpark/U-turn, cover the whole area over with grassland, and include both Solstice Services and the visitor centre underneath.

;-)
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simon

Re: Freight Transport Association urge decision on Stonehenge road plan Hugo van der Sanden - 15:47 08/08/07
Yep, covering Solstice Services and the visitor centre with grassland gets my vote too.

Hugo

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