STAG Stonehenge Traffic Action Group: I created STAG because....

English Heritage got their way and the A344 was closed past Stonehenge in June, to accomodate the new Stonehenge Visitor's Centre which opens 18th December. The closure of this road should not have taken place prior to dualling of the A303! We always had a problem at weekends and holidays with traffic cutting through our village, but the closure of this road made things much worse and has created traffic build up on the A303 backed up to the top of Beacon Hill at weekends and on into Hampshire on school holidays and bank holiday weekends.
Thanks to:www.westerndailypress.co.uk for this picture

The result - and who can blame them - is East and West bound traffic using sat nav to short cut the queue on the A303 past Stonehenge causing a rat run situation in the villages around the area. Look at the queues, not just on the A303 but in our village. Vehicles include low loaders, HGVs and even a double furniture van using our narrow High Street which has a 2 ton weight limit and very little pavement to speak of... and for local people, this is dangerous and we cannot go about our day to day business. Read all about it on www.shrewton.com and the diary of events.
On this day, I decided we must start a petition to dual the A303 - and so....a STAG was born on 22.08.13.
STAG: Stonehenge Traffic Action Group visit: www.sh2.co.uk to sign the petition!
Our slogan: HS2 UNPROVEN JAM TOMORROW....SH2 (stonehenge dual) LOSE THE JAM TODAY!

As if we needed more evidence that the A303 needs to be dualled, especially a by pass around Winterbourne Stoke, some new pictures have just arrived in my inbox, taken at 14.54 on Thursday 14th November......2 earth movers awaiting clearance from on-coming traffic. We estimate it would have taken them one and ahlf hours to go 4 miles on our single carriageway, creating a huge queue - the A303 is no longer fit for purpose!!