An audience with ICOMOS & UNESCO

So! our presentation with the big shots at ICOMOS & UNESCO went well and the folks from Paris and Australia weren't too scary at all. Gratifying to note that Richard McKay and Isobelle Antole Gabriel, were both taking notes on some points as I spoke but I had prepared 3 of everything in separate folders to be left for each of them, one of whom was called back to Paris early.   People who follow this blog, will be familiar with most of what I said but of course, the folks from ICOMOS & UNESCO were new to the situation and so here it is.....

Stonehenge Traffic Action Group
WHO WE ARE:
STAG: Stonehenge Traffic Action Group was set up by myself and my husband – Janice & David Hassett in September 2013. The purpose of which was to highlight the dangers of living in a village where rat running to avoid queues on the A303 past Stonehenge is the norm.
The campaign has evolved over time and a blog has been running since it’s inception, which has had over 41,000 visits from around the world. This can be reached at:
http://staga303.blogspot.co.uk/
and the facebook page: www.facebook.com/stonehengeTrafficActionGroup/ 
I would urge the good people from ICOMOS and UNESCO to take some time to have a read at both the blog and Facebook pages as this explains what has taken place over the course of 4.5 years. You will also be able to listen to the debate at the 2017 AGM of the National Trust where I stood up in support of the people of our village who have had to endure the problem of rat running which has increased hugely during this time.
I would like to point out that the majority of people against fixing the A303 past Stonehenge, don’t actually live in our area….some even live in London!!! and therefore do not suffer the way we do. The queues a few years ago, started on Friday afternoons – mostly west bound and continued all weekend till it all works in reverse, when on Sundays the queue is east bound. During school holidays, the queue is constant and in summer, all day and everyday. Much of this traffic diverts into our village where there is a paucity of pavements. We have elderly, mothers and children, cyclists and horse riders who all find our village currently, a dangerous place to live.
This is why we need to fix the A303 past Stonehenge and I’m certain that archaeologists from Highways England, National Trust and Heritage England have come together in an effort to make changes in a sympathetic and appropriate manner, whilst retaining the tranquillity of the World Heritage Site, and returning the land to nature and wild life. Putting the A303 into a tunnel will achieve all of this and there is no reason why there cannot be a balance between the living and the dead!

Those I refer to in the piece as - "not living in our area" and who don't therefore experience what we do, don't want anything done to fix the A303 past Stonehenge, would be our fiends from Stonehenge Alliance https://www.facebook.com/stonehengealliance/photos/pcb.2092221584345870/2092219054346123/?type=3&theater      With members most notable being Historian Dan Snow, Tom Holland and of course Tony Robinson....Baldrick to you and me!!.....unfortunately, Baldrick didn't turn up at their demonstration on Thursday 8th March outside the Consultation at The Society of Antiquaries, Piccadili in London, presumably because his turnip crop failed and he wouldn't be able to carry out his plan mentioned in our previous blog titled " Baldrick has a Cunning Plan" dated 11th February 2017 which was..... To block up both tunnel portals east and west with two enormous turnips!!!