Stonehenge road scheme is "absolutely crazy", says professor of zooarchaeology
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Professor of Zooarchaeology, Umberto Albarella, is a long-standing Stonehenge specialist who opposes the Stonehenge tunnel and road scheme. He opposes it for many reasons:
First, the Stone monument needs to be appreciated for its rich archaeological landscape. "The damage will be huge" and many archaeologists share his concerns.
Second, is the planetary crisis. The scheme will simply facilitate more traffic. "It is high time that we wake up to the current crisis and we start looking at alternative solutions."
Finally, the cost of the project when the country needs to face up to a cost of living crisis.
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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.
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?
Saved! For now.....
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...
It is because that is the only problem with the road. People slowing down to look at Stonehenge. When stuck in traffic there then once get to the point where cannot see the stones through windscreen then somehow the driver in front is able to magically speed up.
If drivers stopped slowing down to look at Stonehenge then wouldn’t need the tunnel.
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.
they dont want to give away the view for free. its partly revenue based . its also maybe about security for the stones so noone can drive past and blow it up.. and also the masons who engineer and build our infrastructure like big revenue projects like this .
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
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.
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?
They intend to disrupt the energy field of the circle
All the council has to do is restore the Laybys that it took away at the behest of English Heritage.. Congestion Solved ..
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