[News] Stonehenge tunnel, the best way to spend £1.7B of public money?

[Pavilionaire]

This is a drop in the ocean compared to the spend on HS2 - that could have fixed umpteen bypasses up and down the country, including the Stonehenge Tunnel.

 

[Bodian]

The henge is a bit of a wreck these days as well, and no longer fit for purpose.

Pull it down and replace with a proper sundial that actually works.

Especially if we ever end up adopting BST all year round. The old dial will be useless.

 

[warmleyseagull]

Living about an hour from it, and using A303 regularly, I am a yes. The stretch to/from Sparkford is being upgraded to two lanes each way and this will reduce the amount of the road that is not dual carriageway to minimum.

I am probably missing something but I thought the main aim was to protect Stonehenge yet there seems to be a lot of opposition (including UNESCO). The construction process will clearly be intrusive, but surely short term pain for long term gain for the monument?

 

[el_ciddy]

A wall that blocks the view to help stop people driving without due care and attention would do the job.

 

[BadFish]

I blame those neolithic tree huggers for building that eyesore in the first place. I mean it's not like it's ever had any historical significance or anything. You weigh that against chopping off ten minutes on a journey it's roads all the way.

Bloody selfish of them to build it near such a busy road anyway.

 

[BadFish]

Would it not be much cheaper to just build a new road taking the traffic away from the site?

Or a new henge?

it's not even the oldest one. Make a concrete and glass henge over the road and be done with it.

Or


use a bloody calendar.

 

[Eeyore]

Or a new henge?

it's not even the oldest one. Make a concrete and glass henge over the road and be done with it.

Or


use a bloody calendar.

It's an interesting take on human psychology is Stonehenge. If no-one had ever been told it was important it would be seen as just a pile of large stones.

I've only driven past it once and was surprisingly 'meh' about it.

 

[sydney]

so there is no worthier recipient of 1.8 billion pounds currently in the UK ....really ...?? i find that hard to believe , do some digging ( pun intended) into who the contracts are being awarded too ....follow the money , it will be just another rort to drain the public purse.

 

[Stat Brother]

 

[Heart and Soul]

The construction process will clearly be intrusive, but surely short term pain for long term gain for the monument?

Billion pound tunnel or not, I expect it to remain a boring circle of stones for decades to come.

 

[zefarelly]

A wall that blocks the view to help stop people driving without due care and attention would do the job.

Maybe rearrange the rocks that are already there to make a big wall?

 

[Weststander]

so there is no worthier recipient of 1.8 billion pounds currently in the UK ....really ...?? i find that hard to believe , do some digging ( pun intended) into who the contracts are being awarded too ....follow the money , it will be just another rort to drain the public purse.

£100b and growing fast, on a train line to slightly speed up London to Brum/Manchester times.

 

[Stat Brother]

£100b and growing fast, on a train line to slightly speed up London to Brum/Manchester times.

And potentially obsolete before it's finished! (Yeah I know but what's a little hyperbole among friends)



Love how giddy with excitement this fella gets.