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....
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