Re:High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel i...
by pjc50 on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:53AM
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> The A303 is utterly broken and causes knock-on problems all over that area of the UK.
Yeah. I popped up a map to see if I could think of a better route round the situation, but the options aren't great for "how to get to the southwest of England from London". Go north and take the M4/M5, which is the main route to Wales and already busy? Or go south, M3, and get bogged down somewhere west of Bournemouth? Expanding a motorway through the New Forest isn't going to be popular either.
Note that the tunnel proposal as written was cut and cover, which would involve digging up all the archaeologically-significant land above it, rather than a bored tunnel.
Yeah. I popped up a map to see if I could think of a better route round the situation, but the options aren't great for "how to get to the southwest of England from London". Go north and take the M4/M5, which is the main route to Wales and already busy? Or go south, M3, and get bogged down somewhere west of Bournemouth? Expanding a motorway through the New Forest isn't going to be popular either.
Note that the tunnel proposal as written was cut and cover, which would involve digging up all the archaeologically-significant land above it, rather than a bored tunnel.