Secret meetings between Culture Minister and others.....

STAG completely agrees with the posting by Dr Andrew Shuttleworth on his blog: http://bypasswinterbournestoke.blogspot.co.uk about the, by all accounts, secretive and undemocratic meeting on Wednesday 16th April, facilitated by persons unknown.....line up all guilty parties please!!   By all local media accounts confirmed in a story by

Annie Riddle in http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/11164491.Meetings_over_Stonehenge_right_of_way/
those in attendance at said meeting included : Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, Wiltshire Council, and English Heritage and they met to discuss "traffic problems around Stonehenge" or to get to the nitty gritty....wait for it.....how to close Byway 12 specifically between the A303 and the now (defunct?) A344.
It doesn't take any local rocket scientist many more milliseconds to deduce that the prime purpose of this undemocratic meeting, was to exert as much leverage into STOPPING any traffic from either using, or parking on Byway 12 - very clearly, because www.english-heritage.org.uk EH (and we do exclude Kate Davies/General Manager at Stonehenge Visitor's Centre) do not and have never, since their inception as a QUANGO in 1984, wanted to allow FREE ACCESS to the Stone Circle at Stonehenge.

Arthur Uther Pendragon has campaigned on this issue for many a long year, culminating in a protest on Byway 12 in 2008 to allow free access to the Nation's property that is Stonehenge.
STAG in principle, would support this view...i.e. to deny a RIGHT - underwritten by Sir Cecil Chubb in the early 20th Century, that Stonehenge BELONGS to the Nation and that any citizen should have access (effectively free, or otherwise) basically in perpetuity.
What we are seeing now, is the latest in a long line of cynical, quasi-legal, and very forceful attempts to close non-metalled roads in the vicinity of Stonehenge to ALL forms of traffic, and this currently, has nothing whatsoever to do with any supposedly legitimate aspects of safety.  It has all to do with English Heritage's - MISSION/QUEST/OBSESSION!  (I would not give it the title "crusade" as this would give the attempt, an erroneous form of legitimacy).
Consider this: A303 gets an overdue and appropriate dualling past Stonehenge, by whatever means.   Would this then mean that EH's supposed concerns over "safety" in respect of Byway 12/A303 be met, or overtaken by events?.....Certainly not!   They would then claim that they had "succeeded" in addressing the "safety issues" and there could be no reason to then return that section of Byway 12 to its previous status.   They would then dig in heels, and demand that because, for a given period of time, there had been no continuity of route on said Byway in either a Northerly or Southerly direction, that this would be sufficient reason to close the whole of the route by Statutory Instrument or S I, dig it up, and therefore, the same tenets would also be applied to the remaining Byways in the locus of Stonehenge of which there are 5 others, some of which are both, not visible from Stonehenge and vice versa.  Also, as described in the report to Wiltshire Council of 16th November 2011 see: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/stonehenge-inquiry-recommendation-report.pdf file ref: DPI/T3915/11/20 as "clearly little used, with grassy sward over most of its length....very quiet and the landscape is more intimate"  If you have no time to read the whole 83 pages of this report, the important section is on page 5 para 2.8.
E H attempted in 2011 to, not only obliterate the A344, but all other Byways they considered within the Stonehenge WHS by the instrument of Stopping Up Orders (SUOs) and a tranche of Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs).   However, they failed to achieve their objectives as a result of well presented objections by a very large number of parties who were well briefed and in the greater majority, presented arguments that EH thought they could "brush aside".
They didn't succeed in part of their plan then, and some of us who are in STAG now realise that, figuratively speaking, they would lick their wounds, and then be back to try again.
It appears.....THAT TIME HAS COME!
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Ralph Smyth MA BCL.....engage brain before mouth please!

I thank Salisbury's MP johnglenmp.com for providing a link to a story in this morning's Telegraph....please read here those who are remotely interested in matters A303...it won't take too much of your time:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10783496/Stonehenge-tunnel-plans-could-be-revived.html 
I am astounded at a comment within the piece from One......
Ralph Smyth MA BCL  who is Senior Transport campaigner for CPRE: Campaign to protect Rural England....he has lots of attributes to his name, and is both a Barrister and Bachelor of Civil Law.   I'm wondering if he's been locked up rather than locking others up, for the past 10 years from the following.....and I quote: "The traffic at Stonehenge hasn't increased in the last 10 years and it does not justify the huge cost of a tunnel"   He goes on to say that "a tunnel would be preferable to a dual carriageway at the surface, which could cause the historic site to lose its World Heritage status".   Where is he coming from?....I call that running with the hare and hunting with hound!!   I don't suppose he's all that interested in reading anything from local people who have to live with the queues along this section of the A303 and the fact that our villages have become untenable with rat run traffic, which we all experience throughout the summer and Bank Holidays.  If he is of a mind to, he can read blogs at: www.sh2.co.uk but he probably won't even bother.   For his information, the increased traffic figures are available at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/traffic-counts/cp.php?la=Wiltshire#countpointstable  count point i.d. 6874  These figures are only up to 2012, so prior to the new Stonehenge visitor's centre opening last year.   In just 4 months, they report a 10% increase in ticket sales with 21,000 visitors during the Easter holiday......how did Ralph Smyth think that many people arrived there???? And just as an update following the Atkins Traffic Survey of one week during March 2014 and the same week during August 2015.....on the 8th August over 1100 vehicles used the very narrow, no pavement, High Street in Shrewton, which is part of the rat run created by the now very successful Stonehenge Visitor's Centre and we have to deal with this in going about our daily lives Ralph!!!!
In his capacity as a barrister, he should get his facts straight before putting his proverbial foot in mouth.....which is another rural problem he probably knows nothing about!
Of course, living where he does in London, he is completely out of touch with the consequences of not improving the A303 in some way shape or form and is clearly less than interested in the economy of the West Country and the main industry of tourism!   I urge him also to get on his bike as he appears to be a fit bugg....r .....oops sorry! gentleman, and cycle along the A303 past Stonehenge on a Bank Holiday Saturday and experience for himself .....the chaos that is an increase in traffic!!!!

If you want to take this up with the CPRE directly, then their contact details are:

National Office
Campaign to Protect Rural England
5-11 Lavington Street
London
SE1 0NZ

Tel: 020 7981 2800
Fax: 020 7981 2899

Email: info@cpre.org.uk

A quicky at Stonehenge Bottom?

Judging from the number of hits my posting "a nice place to have a kip" has had, it's clear you're all intrigued to know what this HGV driver was doing on Wednesday last, parked for such a long time on the "Clearway" at Stonehenge Bottom!   If you've not read it....take a look....Of course this kind of parking, whilst not against the law, is downright dangerous, especially when he then had to join back into the flowing traffic which could have resulted in a  serious accident!! 

 It's obvious to me that people with maps are not buying new ones and people with sat. navs are not up dating them either!   Both are surprised to find that, when they pitch up at this section of the A303 and expect to cross over onto the A344 to get their "quicky of the monument" through the fence, only to find that this is no longer available to them because the A344 is now closed permanently..... so what do they do now?.....They could do what these drivers are doing here again, not against the law but should just an inch of rubber tyre find itself over that white line, this could result in the driver being presented with a heavy fine or worse......Or they could resort to what other drivers have been doing of late and take "an on the move photo" with camera phone when passing the monument, resulting in a different type of dangerous situation.    Why are drivers doing this?....for a free photo of course, because now they should use the preferred and safer route, by staying in the queue on the A303 to Longbarrow, make their way to the New Visitor's Centre and pay the money - £14.90 per person, take the land train to the monument....this in itself, has probably given them a feeling of deja vu .....because they're actually back where they were, only on the other side of the monument.  They can now take their photos in a safe manner!

 My thanks to Inspector Christian Lange of Wiltshire Police, www.wiltshire.police.uk  who has provided this photo of vehicles parked on both sides of the A303 at the same spot just 3 days later....keep a weather eye out for the barriers to be erected very soon at this spot,but until then, if you see vehicles parked here, please phone 101 and report the situation!

Two weeks of West bound and now it's East bound in 48 hours!!

The later Easter was of benefit to those travelling to the West Country this year.   The schools had already been on holiday for 2 weeks prior to the Bank Holiday and this meant people could stagger their journeys.   That said, the A303 around Stonehenge was queued, mainly westbound throughout the whole of the two weeks leading up to Easter....allowing only a 2/3 day holiday for some.....Then......it all works in reverse on the return leg.    But....not over a 2 week period......home bound traffic this time, has just a 48 hour window and so the A303 was queued Eastbound around the area of that bottle neck that is - Stonehenge but starting with Longbarrow!!
However, nothing keeps Wife of Watch Bustard down....she had to be out there with the camera at 19.10......but knew she had to be back at the nest for Monday night's Corry!!!   Taking the B3083 to Winterbourne Stoke she finds the A303 is flowing nicely, so ventures out when there's a gap in the traffic......then, half way up the hill towards Longbarrow, encounters the queue, brake lights a plenty, reason being.....
there's the usual snarl up at the roundabout with 3 lanes of vehicles all trying to get into one lane......as I've reported before: "a quart doesn't fit into a pint pot".....

I quote from a local driver, returning to Shrewton at 16.40 from Amesbury yesterday..... "traffic was free flowing until about 500 metres east of Longbarrow, from there, through the roundabout and all the way up to Berwick Down (how many miles?) traffic was solid or stationary. All three lanes of the roundabout were being used by vehicles going straight on, along the A303. The entire jam was being caused by cars in these three lanes all fighting to get into one. So, miles of stationary traffic being caused by the totally crap design of the Longbarrow roundabout, and drivers' selfishness"...... 

 

Tell us about your journey along the A303 and win a bottle of bubbly....visit: http://bypasswinterbournestoke.blogspot.co.uk

The A303 needs to be improved from West Amsbury to Berwick Down by what ever means...so please sign our petition at www.sh2.co.uk  many thanks!

The A303 at 1000mph....win a bottle of bubbly for fun!

We think you regulars who make the journey along the A303 each weekend - twice, will already know that it's taking longer since the closure of the A344 past Stonehenge.  So lets get some fun out of it......!
We have an unclaimed bottle of bubbly from last year and another one for this year starting today.....
if you can film your journey either east bound or west bound.
Check out my learned friend Dr Andrew Shuttleworth's blog for all the details, watch the video, and read rules of the competition here:
http://bypasswinterbournestoke.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/stuck-on-a303-win-one-of-two-bottles-of.html

Best of luck! and thanks for following my blog!

A Web Cam at West Amesbury.......soon please H A!

The STAG team are very pleased that our web page is at last up for all to see: www.sh2.co.uk!   Among lots of information about how the dualling campaign is progressing, we can check what's going on with the A303 from the web cam at Solstice Park.  This information is handy in as much, that Watch Bustard and wife decided it wouldn't be necessary to go handing out flyers at West Amesbury, since the A303 looked to be practically empty at Beacon Hill and, it being Easter Saturday, assumed most people had reached their particular holiday destination..... How wrong we were, when we took a run out for some food supplies....And a note to :

a web cam at West Amesbury please......soon!

Queueing at West Amesbury was....S.N.A.S.U.....situation normal....another snarl up!!   Not only was it nose to tail, as it has been most days since we were out on Friday 11th with flyers, but at least two vehicles had to be rescued with poached radiators....or....over heats to you and me.  There was the usual cooked clutches..... and of course....Watch Bustard does have his uses in getting all these broken cars off the carriageway!......Only the finest bottled water, just purchased from Lidl 20 minutes previously..... used to cool things down!!  Tip from WB....apart from checking your water levels before you leave home, if you do find yourself in a traffic queue, turn AC off, the fan on full and the heating up to max - even if it's 30 degrees outside.  This has the effect of taking heat away from the engine therefore cooling things down under the bonnet!   Unfortunately, this information was too late for these poor soles !!

While all this rescuing is going on, flyers are being handed out.....my thanks to the gentleman who said "this road needed to be dualled over 20 years ago"....and offered me a shovel!!   I hope the two lads in the black Renault made it to their wedding in Frome and so sorry for the family in the Volvo who only went out for the day to visit Stonehenge......without a ticket!!   Watch Bustard and myself have made so many friends out here on the A303...such fun!


Just when things were settling down into a moving queue......there's an incident over the hill toward Stonehenge Bottom and Wiltshire's finest with blues and two's, are having to weave in and out through standing traffic......!!!!













Please will you sign our petition to get rid of these queues:
www.sh2.co.uk  Thank you!

Nice place to have a kip.....

I've already posted up about the "quick fix" ideas discussed at the Multi Agency meeting on the 24th March.   Inspector Lange was anxious to deal with people parking up at Stonehenge Bottom to take photographs of the monument......or.......even - have yourself a kip if you will!!    Kip or 40 Winks....40 clins d'oeil!
The weather is beautiful today Wednesday, on Salisbury Plain - wall to wall sunshine and blue skies - the perfect day to view Stonehenge!    We're told by Stonehenge General Manager that ticket bookings have increased to the level of that around the Christmas holidays and the car park, was certainly into over flow mode - with cars parked on the grass above the parking area when we passed.  

 
However.....here, we have Monsieur Norbert Dentrassangle parked up at Stonehenge Bottom on the A303.   He was first clocked by Watch Bustard at 15.15.  Le Monsieur was just dropping down from his cab at the time, and making his way to the gate into the WHS.  20 minutes later, banking all done, Watch Bustard comes out of town via West Amesbury....and..... Le Monsieur is still there parked up as before.  Only this time.....Watch Bustard clocks the driver closing the curtains of his cab!!!   Well, you would if you wanted a bit of shut eye and traffic was heavy but flowing past your cab!!!    Anyway! Watch Bustard returns to the nest, grabs the wife and camera - (which, wife says.... should always be carried anyway!) and about 16.30 our foreign gentleman is still sound asleep, while having his photos taken....and we noted that on our second round, he'd been joined by a couple of bikes - probably having a fag stop! 
 






Can you see the motorbike in front at 16.30



These are the words from The Good Inspector if we see this type of thing again.....

"Thank you for passing these photos to the Police. We are making enquiries with the HGV company to establish why the driver parked there and to ensure that the driver is dealt with appropriatly.

We would encourage people to call 101 if they see other HGVs parking at Stonehenge bottom.

Please ensure that any pictures taken whilst driving on the A303 are taken by the passenger and not the driver".

Many thanks
Inspector Christian Lange


Let the 2014 Rat Run begin!

Friday 11th April 2014...... 





Watch Bustard .....he does work hard for STAG doesn't he!....out again on the A303  taking photos, handing out our new flyers and generally just talking to stuck motorists. The queueing started about 11.20am - these pictures taken from Folly Bottom....and the traffic was nose to tail just 7 minutes later!  

and this, just 7 minutes later!

A303 flowing freely....or so he thinks!!!



We at STAG, sympathise with people who just want to get to their destination for what ever reason: pleasure, work or business, and for the unfortunate gentleman who had left home in London early, to attend a funeral in Blandford.....after sitting in our A303 queue for over half an hour, his car over heated, so it had to come off into a lay by to cool down.....good thing Watch Bustard was around to give the gentleman an alternative route, well off the A303!!
In the main, most people were happy enough to take our flyer to dual the A303 and asking questions such as "has there been an accident?"  "is there road works?"....no, this queue is here almost every weekend and worse leading up to, and during a holiday, and of course we have Easter coming up next weekend.   I say most people were happy enough considering they've been sitting stuck for perhaps 45 minutes to an hour on the A303 from Beacon Hill.  However, by the time they reached our hand out point of just 3 miles, in some cases, tempers were getting a bit frayed, children fractious etc.  I thank the shaven headed gentleman for his advice to go and do something.....that involved sex and travel??.....can't think what he meant!!
At 1 o'clock, our man - Jonathan, from BBC Wiltshire turned up with his mic and interviewed myself and a few of the waiting public - two of whom actually turned out to be Australian and in quite cheery mood considering.   They're used to driving 200 km without a service area!  But ooohhhhh! the smell from cooked clutch or as Watch Bustard put it....casserole de clutch!...and he now muses to take a portfolio of shares in Ferodo! 
You can listen to the interview on Graham Rogers early show from 6am at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vgtz7  and it takes place from the 7am news bulletin.

The exercise of handing out the flyers to ask people to sign our petition for dualling the A303 past Stonehenge, definitely works because a further 30 people have signed in just 12 hours....keep 'em coming at: www.sh2.co.uk

There is another side to setting off on your holiday and coming to our favourite road's traffic jam.   If you happen to be familiar with the weekly hold up.....like some drivers said....."something needs to be done, we've been travelling this route for 23 years!"   They could of course use their sat nav and provided they've clocked the hold up early enough - as they come over Beacon Hill for instance, come off at Solstice Park (Holiday Inn) and this would take them around the "rat run" i.e. through the local villages of Bulford, Durrington, and Larkhill and on to our own village of Shrewton.    There in lies a problem.....stressed town drivers meeting local villagers - a very bad mix really.....In Shrewton there are no pavements, lots of children, cyclists, horse riders not to mention the elderly and of course......
there's our Duck Race on Easter Sunday starting at 3pm!!! 

You may have thought that the 8 hours of traffic hold up on Friday would be enough......but no! it all started again about 08.30am on Saturday!   So! following a STAG meeting at Base Camp, STAGman.....giving Watch Bustard a rest, went out himself and sent the following photos.....Saturday 12th April........

My spies tell me that unexpectedly, the A303 is queued solid again Monday 14th from Beacon Hill....and, can you believe it, Watch Bustard only got stuck in it....wouldn't you think he'd know better!!!?

Please help us get these people to their destinations and sign our petition at www.sh2.co.uk to dual the A303 past Stonehenge! 






Roads Minister to witness A303 hold ups....wrong day!!

I draw your attention to a piece in the Western Morning News Devon, for Wednesday 9th April with the heading:

Roads Minister to Witness A303 Bottlenecks on road trip from London to the South West....read the whole story here:
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Roads-minister-witness-A303-bottlenecks-road-trip/story-20929077-detail/story.html

Firstly, I take exception to the penultimate paragraph, to the words: "a campaign led by Somerset, Devon and Wiltshire Councils" especially the Wiltshire Council bit, since they have taken little or no interest in our STAG campaign which was acknowledged by John Glen MP johnglenmp.com in the 90 minute debate in Westminster on 4th March, when he mentioned the 'S' word and said "The work of the Stonehenge Traffic Action Group-STAG-under the leadership of Janice Hassett and Dr Andrew Shuttleworth has motivated me to pursue those issues" Dr Shuttleworth's blog: http://bypasswinterbournestoke.co.uk

Very laudable of Neil Parish MP for Tiverton & Devon to take the minister along this notorious route with it's bottle necks and hold ups.....mid week? - Wednesday....pourquoi??
Yes, we're running up to the Easter break, which will show the first signs this year, of the predicament the villages and towns along this route are going to experience for the coming summer, but with a little forethought, it might just have been more appropriate to have done this on Friday of the week or even Saturday morning??   But no! of course we wouldn't want the minister to get held up in the queue past Stonehenge tomorrow, and see what the problem is actually like.....I'll be out there at West Amesbury, meandering between the stuck vehicles, about 11.30am with my flyers to get more signatures on the petition: www.sh2.co.uk  It appears that Neil Parish is not au fait with our bit of the problem so, If the minister would like...I'll take him in my car and promise not to get stuck....I would use the....famous rat run.....and we can wiz around the problem in about 40 minutes!!!

And here's more good news - just what we expect for the first holiday of the year: see http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11136918.Hampshire_road_to_be_one_of_the_nation_s_busiest_this_Easter/?ref=var_0

While we're on the subject of Wiltshire Council's involvement on A303 matters or lack of it...I have permission to post up this letter I found while doing research for my blog yesterday.   It's from Shrewton resident Mrs Mary Ruck who must have had a crystal ball back in November 2009 and it's clear to us all, that Wiltshire Council took absolutely no notice what so ever....

The Victory sign off Longbarrow.....how nice!

There are some days I get the urge to blog and today is one of them!  
After a little shop at Lidl, we have a choice of routes home to Shrewton so I decided, since traffic was light, to take the A303 at West Amesbury and using my trip meter in the car I wanted to ascertain my previous blog was correct in that a 2.8km (tunnel) would take me about 200 meters the other side of Longbarrow....right on the nail!   Problems with the new lay-out at Longbarrow roundabout have been well documented since the recent new signs on the road were implimented but have not made a blind bit of difference if today is anything to go by.   Approaching Longbarrow in a westerly direction, I took up the centre lane as per the new signs, to go straight across and was aware of a green Vauxhall Astra who took up the left lane for heading south on the A360 toward Salisbury.  Out of the corner of my eye - peripheral vision coming in here!! I noticed the Astra had not gone south but was still with me in the nearside lane, but of course, he had to travel much further to get back onto the west bound A303 than I, so I got there first by using the correct lane.  This must have rather upset the driver, because, how nice when I looked in my mirror, to receive the Victory sign from the elderly gentleman behind the wheel!.....except....I'm sure he got his fingers the wrong way round....like Winston Churchill in this picture, but not given in the best of grace - unfortunately....more like this of Ronnie Biggs!! 
 

said in an article to Salisbury Journal on 18th December 2013: "It is hoped the new markings and signs will ensure that motorists get into the correct lane as early as possible and we want motorists approaching the A303 at Longbarrow to use correct lanes all the way around.....I've got news for you H A....it aint working!!!

Madeira - an Island of Tunnels

Elizabeth Porter-Wright's letter to Post Bag 26th March 2014 got me thinking.....She had recently returned from the beautiful island of Madeira where Watch Bustard and myself have been known to roam.   She was rightly amazed at the road structure and the fact that mountains all over the island, didn't get in the way of progress and that there are good roads and tunnels everywhere - all paid for by the E U in Brussels!    Her comment was: "why can't we get EU money to pay for a new road around Stonehenge, as it is such a big tourist attraction".  Simplistic thinking me thinks....but never the less, thought provoking when you consider that the EU in Brussels have issued no less than 3589 additional directives since David Cameron became PM and it would take 92 working days to sift through and to find where we can have some dosh to pay for a new road/tunnel.
Today, a 120 mile road and tunnel network links Madeira's previously isolated mountain communities, cutting journeys around its steep volcanic contours from four hours to just one, says Colin Freeman in an interview with Gil Cana, a Councillor in Madeira's New Democracy party, to the Telegraph.   However, despite over generous grants from Brussels, the Portuguese owned island is swimming in debt.  
Read more: here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/portugal/9191749/Billions-of-euros-of-EU-money-yet-Madeira-has-built-up-massive-debts.html   The geology of this is interesting in that Madeira, is volcanic rock which is soft, light and porous called pumice and lends itself well to drilling.   The geology around Stonehenge however, is soft white porous, sedimentary rock a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and does not lend itself to the wet....but apparently they've got that sussed now - a sponge the size of Hampshire might help!!?   The chemical form of calcite....Ca C03 could that be an alliteration!?   If tunnelling gets the go-ahead, following feasibility studies, we are reliably informed by John Glen MP johnglenmp.com during the 90 minute debate in Westminster Hall on 4th March that "the difference now, compared with previous attempts to deal with the problem, is that Britain's engineering expertise has developed and we now have an international reputation for excellence in large-scale infrastructure projects involving tunnelling"  This expertise has been accumulated from the building of the Hindhead Tunnel and the Thames Valley Tideway tunnel......Thank heavens they did all the rehearsals out of our area!!!
This does bring me to costs and we have to compare a tunnel under Stonehenge....allowing English Heritage their wish that the WHS should not be seen for free and the more recent Hindhead construction.
I have to call upon Watch Bustard to do the calcs because when it comes to millions, he's better than I !
He says....if the Hindhead Tunnel opened in 2011 with 1.8km at a cost of £300million, a 2.8km tunnel at Stonehenge, allowing for inflation at 3% per annum, would probably cost £510million...now that figure sounds familiar?   (could it be the very same figure rejected as unaffordable in 2007??)   Also if it started where the existing dual carriageway finishes, it would only get as far as 200 meters past Long Barrow.....sorry Winterbourne Stoke, I do hope you get that by-pass!
Please help us improve the A303 around Stonehenge by what ever means by signing our petition at: www.sh2.co.uk but remember to confirm using the follow up e-mail or your vote won't be counted!



Salisbury Journal's Post Bag

 

Two letters in Salisbury Journal's post bag for 3rd April, from Cllr Andrew Shuttleworth and the other from myself, need little explaining. http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/ 

To tunnel or not to tunnel, everyone has an opinion and are entitled to have their say.  Therefore, we must keep our letters flowing in whatever manner to keep A303 wheels turning - (metaphorically speaking of course) and A303 matters to the fore.   One thing's for sure, there can be no more GANDERFLANKING - we need something done around Stonehenge sooner rather than later!

 

Amesbury Area Board have written following the meeting of 24th March, mentioned in my previous blog "quick fix ideas meeting".  They have told us, that a summery of actions for short term measures  is to be put in place to alleviate A303 problems throughout the summer months, will be with us by the end of next week.  

These measures may have little or no effect on our problems, but we won't know if we don't try them.   As my friend the Good Doctor says: "they may put us in a good position for the coming feasiblilty study and will re inforce the message, that half hearted measures and long term compromise will still cost the tax payer dear"

 

Please help us sort this problem by whatever means and sign our petition at:

WWW.SH2.CO.UK  but rememeber to confirm your vote using the follow up e-mail

many thanks!