nigelswift
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A light at the end of the tunnel?
Mar 22, 2017, 07:46
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Could the Stonehenge tunnel be ditched?
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/breaking-news-up-to-sixteen-upgrades-to-englands-busiest-roads-including-the-stonehenge-tunnel-could-be-scrapped/
Could this be a (good) consequence of Brexit? ;)
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Sanctuary
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Re: A light at the end of the tunnel?
Mar 22, 2017, 08:41
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nigelswift wrote:
Value for money is when you spend £1.3 billion on building hospitals or feeding the starving. Both save lives and the greatest value of all.
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tjj
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Edited Mar 22, 2017, 09:38
Re: A light at the end of the tunnel?
Mar 22, 2017, 08:58
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nigelswift wrote:
Positive news!
CPRE have just released a report which supports the above view (there is a great little video that goes with it).
http://www.cpre.org.uk/media-centre/latest-news-releases/item/4550-case-for-tripling-roads-budget-based-on-wishful-thinking-say-campaigners
Far too soon to see any benefits from Brexit - all gloom and doom at the moment though I did hear on this morning's news about a new Chinese factory (in the Midlands I think) which will manufacture electric London taxis. Good news for (some?) jobs and the environment.
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Rhiannon
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Re: A light at the end of the tunnel?
Mar 22, 2017, 12:32
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That would be great.
Although having said that there was someone on the Today programme yesterday stressing how they were going to spend lots and lots of money on roads. I guess it depends if someone's got a bee in their bonnet about it and wants to prove a point / add it to their CV. or whether they'll realise it's not worth the bother of it being such a hot potato and just back out quietly with the not-value-for-money excuse.
hopeful though
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nigelswift
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Re: A light at the end of the tunnel?
Mar 22, 2017, 19:23
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Rhiannon wrote: whether they'll realise it's not worth the bother of it being such a hot potato and just back out quietly with the not-value-for-money excuse.
I think the potatoes have got very much hotter in the last couple of weeks with the unqualified condemnation of the scheme by the group of 21 top archaeologists and also by ICOMOS-UK. So "not worth the bother" has maybe become more likely.
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tjj
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Re: A light at the end of the tunnel?
Mar 23, 2017, 10:01
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nigelswift wrote: Rhiannon wrote: whether they'll realise it's not worth the bother of it being such a hot potato and just back out quietly with the not-value-for-money excuse.
I think the potatoes have got very much hotter in the last couple of weeks with the unqualified condemnation of the scheme by the group of 21 top archaeologists and also by ICOMOS-UK. So "not worth the bother" has maybe become more likely.
Just seen this Torygraph link - David Cameron will be recalled in history for all the wrong reasons. No wonder he ran away and hid.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/22/major-road-schemes-could-cancelled-david-cameron-rushed-11bn/
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nigelswift
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Re: A light at the end of the tunnel?
Mar 23, 2017, 10:23
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Great link June!
As is this https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/how-control-of-stonehenge-was-stolen-from-archaeologists/
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(Wish there was a symbol for "told yer" or "smug"!)
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CARL
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Re: A light at the end of the tunnel?
Mar 23, 2017, 12:46
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Well said Sanctuary
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