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It appears that some in government and or associated with the WEF are suppressing our history. The WEF is covering up Gobelki Tepe and other ancient megalithic sites in Asia. We need to find out Why! It's is our History and we deserve to know!

Another unique feature of Stonehenge, not mentioned by MPP, was that the Stonehenge site was in use for around two thousand years. Trackways, ditches, settlements, boundary markers and burial sites came and went, stones from here there and everywhere were brought in, removed and set up again. Why so much fuss over introducing another earthwork into that amazing landscape

All the council has to do is restore the Laybys that it took away at the behest of English Heritage.. Congestion Solved ..

They intend to disrupt the energy field of the circle

What you need to do is has already been pointed out is to have the drivers in cars stop rubbernecking at the stones. When you look on traffic maps then literally the red for stuck traffic meets in each direction where drivers have to stop looking out the windscreen. After which somehow miraculously they can speed back up. If people didn't slow down to look at the stones whilst driving down a single carriageway road then the existing road could cope with the traffic levels and wouldn't need to do anything with the roads.

Its all about the money.....

Merely imagining the significance, pristine nature, and aesthetics of a landscape and its hidden treasures is far more exciting than decking it out with a thousand expensive signs, educational information boards, museums, shops and access paths meant to guide visitor flows and project 'solutions.' The true charm of the landscape increasingly gets pushed into the background. Developing new access paths always leads to more traffic.

You'd have thought after so many years of arguing about it, that the archeologists would have dug up all the bits they're interested in by now. I suppose they already have enough flint arrow heads to be getting along with. Just widen that part of road a bit and build a bypass around W Stoke, fgs.

The Stonehenge Road Scheme has been cancelled by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

The Stonehenge Road Scheme has been cancelled by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

The Stonehenge Road Scheme has been cancelled by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves. 🎉

The Stonehenge Road Scheme has been cancelled by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Stonehenge is . . . (1) really not so special. I mean there are a lot more henges around. All over the place and more than people think. Many overseas visitors are surprised by how small it is. It is really not that ancient. Don't try to impress an Egyptian with it. (2) really not in the right place. Transplantation would come cheaper than the contending road schemes. I would not be against auctioning it off. But how about one of the London parks as its new venue? I would go for Greenwich, near the Royal Observatory.

John Adams being another insufferable fool who believes the government, not wanting to spend money on widening one of the few remaining choke points, is going to spend money over even more costly rail links to the SW.

One may park up, and walk around the (Stonehenge) plain for free, and see the stones in their context. The tunnel will further give a greater view of context that we won't have seen for many hundreds of years. Maybe our ancestors shouldn't have put a pile of stones next to a main road... 😉

It's good that it's been axed

Saved! For now.....

The tunnel is a project from the mid 90s, now cancelled much to the average persons annoyance, but talks about the fact the road reached capacity many years before that. So now many of us will continue to get stuck in the bottleneck so archeologists can continue to be wrong about what it is or was used for...joy. At this rate the cheapest route will be right through it using the stones as hardcore.

.....A place to curse as you get stuck behind or crash into rubberneckers.

Another reason to switch from internal combustion engine vehicles to connected electric cars. They offer a much better driving experience and are much less harmful to other people and the environment.

I don't Live near Stonehenge..But it appears to me by looking at the maps of the area that the tunnel was planned to totally remove any view of Stonehenge from the Road...

My concern is the loss of the World war One airfield relics that lie either side of the A303. The foundations of the old hangars and the remains of the old fuel tanks could be lost to the unfavourable archaeologists who are only interested in flint arrow heads.

Why do they need a Huge expensive Tunnel...Answer they dont ...Its all about Money and Prestige...

I agree no need for the tunnel to be built. The only reason is an issue is people slowing down to look at the stones instead of keeping the speed up and mainting progress down the road. EVERYTIME caught in traffic there then is due 100% to people slowing down to look at stones. Once you get to where cannot see the stones through the windscreen then the driver is miraculously able to speed up and you wander what the hold up was. So erect a barrier to block view of the henge from the road and problem solved. Make it one so can be taken down for the solstice. Do that and you won’t have the issue,

Whoever built Stonehenge was no simple hunter--gatherer. They had knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, and a handy way with big stones over miles of rough ground. I don´t think they lived in huts of sticks and mud. Fast forward 3,000 years, and the Romans found a load of barbarians. An interesting interval shunned by academe. So don´t tell me you have the least scintilla of a clue about Stonehenge professor, because you don´t.

AT TYWFORDOWN they didn't want a tunnel because of a site of special interset ? they protested and protested . IN THE END A CUTTING WAS PUT ALL ACROSS IT. Something has to happen TUNNEL OR ROAD CUTTING.

Mike mentioned that he thought the tunnel as currently intended is too short. That is, it's the maximum length for a road tunnel without ventilation, which it would need if longer. This is standard spec for road tunnels and I assume based on expectation of build up of fumes from the traffic going through. So, its essentially a cost issue as the ventilation would add cost to install and run and a linger tunnel would cost more. This seems to lack consideration of the purpose of the tunnel. Govt has simply proposed an off the shelf spec rather than be part of the wider development of the site. Turning it into a national park that people could freely walk around would be nice

Poor old Stonehenge, the least primal/mystical of our monuments. Completely abused by Science & Government

End car culture.

The environment of Stonehenge is wrecked anyway; vehicles park all along a byway, ruining the views, cars drag past on the A303, their occupants gawping, people swarm to the place in the hundreds; and the visitor centre is just a typical commercial building like any other. If ever the place was sacred, it isn't now, whether a tunnel is built or not

It the masterbuilder craze - gone wrong!

So what happened at the hearing? New Government - new thinking?

up until 1984 on every summer solstice I and many others had free access to the stones. Great memories of being a part of the heritage of Stonehenge. Then Operation Stonehenge. And now this. Good luck with the campaign.

Amusing if digging out the road they find another henge even bigger and older and of inexplicably exotic materials! Anyway they will find more stuff for sure and leave massive road works for future discovery by a later civilisation or the one after that!

These conversations have been taking place since the 60s. Wow, we make decisions quickly in the UK. No wonder are MPs never get anything done.

I must have fallen asleep - I thought the tunnel was complete and open to traffic and hailed as a major improvement for those using the A303 trunk road

This is an environmental rant, not a solution. How about a cheap dual carriageway instead of an expensive tunnel - and a fence to obscure the view?

Let's face it, by the time this scheme has been argued over and completed this regime we're living under would of made driving so expensive and troublesome the volume of traffic on our roads would have gone through the floor. A complete waste of tax payers money.

His argument is all over the place - global warming, cost of living problems. Even if we all converted to electric or some other non-polluting cars we still need roads to drive them on. As for the road itself, I live not far from Stonehenge and use that stretch of road regularly. It seems to me that the problem has been overblown - it's a busy road and traffic tends to slow down near the stones, so sometimes it takes longer than it should to travel half a mile to a mile. It's not a big deal.

Chaos every weekend and during weekdays now. The henge was reconstructed in the late 1960's. Yes the area is full of history burying the road won't affect that or was a road always there in the first place since ancient times. One road has already been closed at the cost to local residents who suffer from rat runs all the time. This idea to hide the tunnel will open views across all the ancient area without the distraction of streams of traffic every day.

Nah, I disagree with the statement that "the amount of work that is going to occur is going to be huge" (! agree) "and highly damaging" (I disagree) "UNESCO has threatened withdrawal of World Heritage Status if this project does ahead" - agreed, but not if the longer, more expensive tunnel version goes ahead, so they aren't against a tunnel. The damage, presumably to the archaeology, complained of is almost certainly miniscule. The whole route being changed would be subject to the most meticulous archaeological digs and analysis. It is possible that science yet to be invented could make more of what is dug up, but how? How would the best available archaeology and world expert analysis The Stonehenge Alliance case is extremely weak and emotional

Oh my goodness £28 per person to see a few fake rocks or stones lol, wow I drive past it a lot and I still cannot get my head around the people paying that just to walk around and staring at nothing. I pray for these sad people hoping for them to one day wake up.

It is a latter day town square....or maybe a precinct.

If you think humans will still exist in 5000 years time, you're deluded. We'll have wiped ourselves out long before then. Even 500 years is beyond optimistic.

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the tunnel to be built deep under the archaeology without disturbing the surface so that it can be studied in the future where appropriate? Isn’t that why it’s costing so much?

Upon visiting Stonehenge a few years back I did notice how you don't get to see the stones until you've been corraled past the payment kiosk, even the approach road and car park are carefully out of line-of-sight. This "hiding the A303 in a tunnel" scheme all seems engineered so that anyone who wants to catch a glimpse of Stonehenge has to pay through the nose with those sky high entrance fees. We can't have people enjoying it for free from the public road now can we!

Surely the tunnel is better than what we currently have? We'll have less pollution, less of an eyesore when visiting the stones, be returning the environment closer to what it was when the stones were put there by our ancestors, restoring natural habitats for local wildlife, and improve traffic in the area. The entrance and exit are a mile away from the stones so that's not going to be a problem, there's hundreds of formally educated archaeologists working on it (not just some random academics in irrelevant subjects) and they've got years to go through it all. Also funding, Archaeology is incredibly underfunded - A dig like this isn't going to come around often.

The tunnel sounds a good idea - but is just too expensive; we need the money spent on more important things. Just widen the road, and get archeologists involved with the digging of it.

Well said, Professor. And to the Stonehenge Alliance, is there any indication that the change in your government holds out any hope for the Stonehenge WHS?