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jonmor
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Re: Please sign the Stonehenge petition
Dec 04, 2014, 19:14
“The whole Stonehenge landscape has an outstanding universal value that is of immense significance for all people for all time, and this transcends any consideration of sorting out a 21st century part-time traffic jam.”


Difficult because this is obviously a forum in which people care about monuments. Not everybody thinks the above and it is a statement that can be fairly easily dismissed in an infrastructure value comparison setting.

Other people might, for instance, be more interested in sustainability. The proposed solution, using current definitions, is a far more 'sustainable' solution than the deep bore alternative. It is also cheaper.

Nevertheless, I have sympathy with the viewpoint as I believe the monument will eventually be shown to be both a landmark in our society's evolution and also relevant to today's society. This would put it into a very special category. However, road building projects can be easily completed within only one or two decades, so assuming the project goes ahead, time has almost certainly run out.
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