New roads don’t reduce traffic, they create more. It’s called induced demand. We should be building viable alternatives to driving.
Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government
Streamwave@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’m glad about this. There’s clearly major issues with traffic in that area, but why on earth would the solution be to build a huge tunnel so close to one of our most ancient and iconic heritage sites? Think of all the archaeological relics this might have destroyed.
Just build a new road further away from Stonehenge!
mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 month ago
This sort of thing? Or even farther south?
Zip2@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I couldn’t agree more, the destruction of what might be there was my major concern. Digging a tunnel through a world heritage site should never have been approved in the first place, even if archaeologists excavated it all by hand.
And I guess building a new road further away would eat into other national parks/landscapes. Not sure what the answer is here. Suck it up I guess.
Nighed@sffa.community 1 month ago
If they took it right through the hills and brought out out by Winterbourne Stoke then it would be much better I think?
Most of the traffic is through traffic anyway. Bringing it up by Long Barrow Roundabout (it’s in the name!) was crazy.