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Saturday 22 May 2021

So!.....let the Rat Run begin.....again!

Do you know, I'm sure I've said that before?.....oh yes, I remember.....my post dated 12/04/2014: https://staga303.blogspot.com/2014/04/let-2014-rat-run-begin.html   

So I've been boring everyone about fixing the A303 at Stonehenge for many years and here we are again!   As lock down is lifted and the country decide to take their long awaited "holiday" or was that "Staycation" down in the West Country, starting next weekend, the May bank holiday, the queues will yet again take their place on that section of the A303 past Stonehenge and we here in Shrewton....just off the A303 queue, can look forward to a summer.....(did I just say summer??) of dodging errant vehicles, traffic fumes, bad tempers and litter including the odd face mask, being thrown from car windows, not to mention those bottles of what apparently could be mistaken for half drunk iron bru! 
So this lot....

Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site

..an offshoot of Stonehenge Alliance - the scare mongers...

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-stonehenge-world-heritage-site/ are counting down for yet more contributions from their followers and with 7 days to go, have managed to fleece £64,308.00 of the £80,000 they need to go forward with their plans to see Grant Shapps the Transport Minister in court and stop.....apparent .....

 "Monumental vandalism of the Stonehenge landscape"!

As you will have read from previous posts, they have used up £50,000 of that money already, to set up their case.    https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/ and as we all know.....employing solicitors - especially London ones....don't come cheap!!!

They say they want a longer tunnel to take it outside the World Heritage Site (WHS) but don't say how long that should be, where it should start and where it would finish and nor do they say who will pay for this "longer tunnel".   So! if they are successful from their "day in court" 23rd to 25th June.....we have a wee saying in Glasgow and that's: "The Baw's oan the Slates"!! which means we're back to the expense of consultations, a further 15 years of re-assessment of the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme, where it relates to the WHS.   What they fail to take on board is the elephant in the room 😂 and that elephant is the present A303 which runs right through the middle of  their beloved World Heritage Site, splitting it in two.   It needs to be removed and get the traffic moving at that section, which in turn will help the economy to the West Country, stop the queues and......prevent.... 

RAT RUNNING THROUGH OUR LOVELY VILLAGE!




and this one.....









1 comment:

Dr.Strange said...

Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site - now to be known in my spiel as the SS don't have a view of alternatives: the abomination that begat the SS had said "no tunnel"/"a longer tunnel, at least 3.5km in length starting at Folly Bottom"/"destruction of previously undiscovered archaeology" etc.
What the SS are aiming solely to do, by presenting, one assumes, further falsehoods, is to 'persuade' High Legal Authority that DfT made an illegal judgement on the (note well) recommendations of the National Infrastructure Planning Authority.
They have a Plan A but deliberately ignore the broader implications, in the same way their forebears, Stonehenge Alliance, presented a shed-load of falsehoods to the Investigating Body, whilst failing to withdraw them when presented with the facts, as opposed to either warped conjecture, or downright lies....