So! Getting away at Easter is a given!

Or so it seems......So let me tell you about this latest Easter Break - sometimes I note, now called a "Bank Holiday" since for some it has lost the religious meaning and it's just a chance to eat chocolate!
This being the first longish break since Christmas and the schools having broken up a full 2 weeks prior to Easter weekend, it was certainly possible to "stagger" ones holiday providing a wider window to arrive at ones West country retreat. 
On Good Friday morning (or should I call that "bank holiday" Friday) according to https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcwiltshire  the A303 was already queued from Solstice Park and by 7 minutes past 7, vehicles were taking 1 hour 20 minutes to pass the Stonehenge section to Long Barrow roundabout!
Obviously, one would want to take the full advantage of the "bank holiday" (Easter to you and me!) and start the return journey east bound, sometime on bank holiday Monday and this is where it gets interesting because for the people who live in the village of Shrewton.....Great invention - the Sat Nav when it tells of "a queue ahead" and vehicles have the option to strike off early at the junction of the A303 and the B3083 at Winterbourne Stoke and then RAT RUN through our village using Salisbury Road as their main route, then through our High Street and back out via London Road.....remember those figures on a previous blog of 280,604 over Christmas?? 
Yesterday Easter Monday someone reported on our Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/StonehengeTrafficActionGroup/? holdups from the junction of the B390 from Chittern to get into the village and chaos in the centre of the village at our mini roundabout where the two lots of traffic converge and here is just one comment: " Paul Timlett Just the 10 hours of jams on the A303 today. 8:30 at night and it’s still slow moving or stationary. But hey there “might” be undiscovered archaeology somewhere. Possibly. So we mustn’t do anything. Tell that to the tens of thousands of people caught in today’s jams, and the probably hundreds of thousands caught in the jams over the last few weeks. Plus the tens of thousands who have to suffer the daily rat running. Ten hours of constant din, and counting.
10:40 at night and finally the rat running has stopped and we have peace at last. 13 hours after it all started"!!
All of this causing litter to be thrown from vehicle windows, poor air quality, and residents having to continually look out for speeding traffic when there is a gap in the rat run!
So! it's time for the Naysayers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blick_Mead and http://stonehengealliance.org.uk/ to listen up and understand that we're in the "here and now" and there needs to be a balance between the living and the dead so that the A303 can be fixed helping the economy to the West country, stop the Rat Run and open up the World Heritage Site for all to enjoy!!!!