English Heritage.....letting us down again!

Well here we are....
1) - 8 months after my post of 29.01.14 "English Heritage adopting etc...."
2) - 9 months since the new Visitor's Centre official opening on 18.12.13
3) - 1 year 3 months after the closure of the A344 and commencement of the
TRO: (Traffic Regulation Order)
and still not a lot has been done vis a vis the erection of Kent Carriage Gaps - they look like this and the measurement is:

However, just recently, it does appear EH made some attempt at installing said gate, and the tidying up of kerbs and paths....and I thank my learned friends for providing these photos which were taken between Airman's Cross...(oops! I mean Corner, don't I) and the entrance to the Visitor's Centre car park....
Do you think it may have been a rush overnight job in view of insider knowledge of the visitation of a certain President??
(er! I fink ya got it wrong again Dad)!!.....because of course....they're in the wrong place, and the Kent carriage gap should be built across a path, walkway, or as in this case the A344.....not on the side of .....so therefore - not fit for purpose and how is one supposed to ride a bike or drive a carriage over this.....!!!  

And it gets worse.... bear in mind that the path you can see, running from left to right, comes down from the coach park and we do note they have dropped
the kerb, is the main access for visitors going to and coming from the Visitor's Centre.

   Given these pedestrians are about to cross an open highway, the A344, in very large numbers, you'd think English Heritage would have had the common sense to do a number of things. First, leading pedestrians onto and across a highway, without warning them they are crossing one, is a fairly stupid thing to do; particularly given that many of them are foreign visitors. Also, wouldn't you think, there might be proper signage on the path and the road, "Look both ways" signs on the footpath, etc, etc, but no!    So, a typical English Heritage bodge job and when we have our first visitor mown down by a horse rider, horse and carriage or even a cyclist, the negligence on English Heritage's part will be clear.
We also have to report that there has been no further progress from the aforementioned post of 29th January for the completion of the so called "cycle/walk route" between By way 12 and Stonehenge Bottom nor a safe crossing after the gate.....So! it's clear to all, they might as well make a new sign:  


"BY ORDER OF ENGLISH HERITAGE:
THERE SHALL BE NO FREE VIEWING OF OUR STONE CIRCLE!"

And now, an update of the work on the Kent Carriage gap....this past week, EH have gone in with tarmac and rollers and it's now all lovely and smooth on the far side!!:

May I draw your attention to that previous post dated 29.01.14.....
"When the A344 was closed in June last year, English Heritage, took it upon themselves to erect some nice 5 bar gates.....to keep us all out!
To assist with this....they also put some "yellow jackets" in place. I've had more than enough e-mails telling me that they've "done their own thing" by putting up the gates and worse still.....locking them at night. These gates, whilst agreed by Wiltshire Council on a TRO - Traffic Regulation Order, as part of the planning permission for the new visitor's centre, were merely to stop unauthorised vehicles and should not be closed to the public! We have the right to walk/cycle/ride or use a horse and carriage i.e. mechanically propelled vehicles, beyond the gates and this is not questionable. This is an extract from an e-mail to one of our supporters from: Development Control Engineer, Wiltshire Council: "I can assure you that the works have been carried out generally in accordance with the planning permission, and the accompanying planning obligations, which clearly set out intentions to control vehicle traffic movement along the A344; the arrangements for the gates were agreed and facilitated by Wiltshire Council, acting in its capacity as both local planning and highway authority" The TRO stated that there are no restrictions to the following: pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders, or invalid carriages......still, the "Yellow Jackets" are not allowing "the public right of way" without asking questions as to why you would want to pass through the gates! English Heritage just don't want anyone seeing those Stones without paying....do they?!"