Tangled Metal wrote:Put simply would you pay £1.6 billion pounds of state money on tunneling under a UNESCO world heritage landscape that's still subject to research and is still turning up important finds that further understanding of these ancient cultures? Or would you save money by building through that uninvestigated landscape destroying what's there.
Got it in one!!!You can
either build a tunnel
or you can build a road across an archaeological landscape - that's the choice. Would you like a road Sir or would Sir like a road? Do they think we are really that stupid that we swallow such guff?
Basically you can reduce the traffic around Stonehenge by having a man in a white coat and a small shed (cost £199 from B and Q) collecting tolls from those who really need to go that way at peak time.
But that isn't what it is about. It is about firstly constructing a four lane dual carriageway to Cornwall - don't forget they wanted to ram this road across the Blackdown Hills. Secondly it's about dishing out huge road building contracts.They thought that if they left the Stonehenge stretch until last, logic would dictate its building. Well, that hasn't quite worked out but hey, the contract just got bigger! The absolute criteria for this road by the way are that it must be free at the point of use and four lanes (rwo on either side). This is so Mr Motorist can drive unhindered whenever and wherever he wants without regard to any other cultural value. Well maybe Stonehenge is just too big even for Mr Motorist.
The worst insult in all this is that they really think we believe them when they talk about saving Stonehenge - the old biddies in the National Trust have certainly been taken to the cleaners and back - they probably sold them some double-glazing while they were at it.
