Home safe and well we hope....sorry for the queue on the A303

STAG hopes you all got home safely from your Xmas holiday, where ever you were and we hope you weren't stuck for too long on the A303. It's not been the best of weathers for the festive season especially if you were in the floods down in the West Country. As I write this, it's pouring with rain and blowing a gale again, and if you did have to queue on the A303 it's all down to the closure of that A344. You see we need to get the A303 dualled past Stonehenge and it should have been completed before the closure of A344....but apparently that road had to close to accommodate the "New Visitor's Centre" at Airman's Cross - one and a half miles from Stonehenge! I'm not sure where English Heritage thought 600 vehicles an hour that used the A344, were going to go - vanish into thin air? Of course, they've ended up on the beleaguered A303 which is why you have to queue along with us!!! There have been enough feasibility studies and now they're going to start another.....£46m spent so far!!! Unfortunately, because the A303 is still single carriageway past The Stones, this queue will still be here next time you head for the West Country because - it's permanent until we get it dualled! We "Yokels" are....Soooooo sorry for the queue, but you need to have words with : www.english-heritage.org.uk and or www.wiltshire.gov.uk for the long tail backs on the A303 since the road closed. Whilst we understand the need to get off the beleaguered A303 and out of queue, the act of doing so, has caused "rat run" traffic through our villages and towns, making them unsafe for local people, but who can blame you?     Please feel free to write to these two organisations and copy it to me, because, now we all have to stay in that queue...even us just trying to get home to our villages because the stupid planners, when designing the new visitor's centre, didn't consider putting in a separate entrance/exit ....and it's in the wrong place anyway!!! More information on decisions taken to close the A344 can be found on http://bypasswinterbournestoke.blogspot.co.uk So! here you all are queueing and queueing and queueing..... 

Please sign our parliamentary petition at: www.sh2.co.uk to dual the A303 past Stonehenge and remember to use the follow up e-mail to confirm....thanks!