nigelswift
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Re: Stonehenge Tunnel Decision
Nov 23, 2020, 06:11
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This is why the jibe was so cruel Jon!
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nigelswift
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Re: Stonehenge Tunnel Decision
Dec 01, 2020, 17:20
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£20K raised really quickly. It's going to be quite a fight.
Please help if you will and can.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-stonehenge-world-heritage-site/?fbclid=IwAR0fv2cJ3Y-MtCGtB1Bf_pTXT5rZed4DK03CdsnjJS8vOmNUhf7z1a-cMTM
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Howburn Digger
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Re: Stonehenge Tunnel Decision
Dec 01, 2020, 18:49
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I think people are really missing the fecking point here. The tunnelling out of millions of cubic shintloads of soil and archaeology will create a Silbury somewhere else. The crazy excavators, JCBs, Lorries, big tunnelly-borer machines and tarmac laying gear will for sure be a blight on the landscape. The debate here (and elsewhere) seems to rotatey-diskers on whether the tunnel should be...
1. the size that the feckwads are planning on building
or
2. much, much bigger and much much longer.
Now shall it be the Horseless Carriage or the Iron Horse? Shall it be the knife or the briny deep?
No-one has suggested that those visitors to Stonehenge who dislike traffic should just learn to fecking live with it. How did the offended tourists get to Stonehenge in the first place - perhaps by hoverboard? If the sounds of passing lorries and agricultural vehicles offends them perhaps Stonehenge should be uprooted and re-erected somewhere much quieter (perhaps in Norfolk). No-one has mentioned my designs and plans for a possible flyover bridge. No-one has seriously looked at green camo-canvas masking of the current road to protect the eyes of the 21st Century needy and sensitive.
Perhaps we really need to look at the demolition, flattening and re-landscaping of Callanish Village? And the subsequent submerging of the A858 in a tunnel and eradicating all modern agriculture on Lewis so that our 21st Century senses aren't offended by the sound of Texel Sheep and Massey Fergusons.
Let us look at Orkney. Burn the Viking Sagas! Throw George MacKay Brown's works on the peat hearth flame! The A895 will have to buried under a tunnel! The little townships and broch stumps will have to go. Use them as backfill for the tunnel! Let us get remixing, remodelling and re-imaginising Orkney back to the active period of Ring of Brodgar. Or shall it be the active period of Skara Brae? Who cares? As long as it isn't today. Or tomorrow.
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nigelswift
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Re: Stonehenge Tunnel Decision
Dec 01, 2020, 19:01
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Nice.
I especially agree those "who dislike traffic should just learn to fecking live with it. How did the offended tourists get to Stonehenge in the first place - perhaps by hoverboard?" It's not very noisy, no-one says it is except EH who also fiddle the photos. And they go on about larks being drowned out. They aren't, they're piercing little buggers. although getting rarer everywhere and how many of their nests will be destroyed by a mile of dual carriageways?
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Stonehenge Tunnel Decision
Dec 01, 2020, 22:56
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Howburn Digger wrote:
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No-one has suggested that those visitors to Stonehenge who dislike traffic should just learn to fecking live with it. How did the offended tourists get to Stonehenge in the first place - perhaps by hoverboard? If the sounds of passing lorries and agricultural vehicles offends them perhaps Stonehenge should be uprooted and re-erected somewhere much quieter (perhaps in Norfolk).
I don't think the govt's motivation for planning to spend millions on a tunnel is because some visitors have complained about traffic noise is it???
The business case for doing anything at all is to speed traffic up isn't it? The motivation is nothing to do with the Stonehenge visitor and everything to do with traffic management. Or am I missing something here?
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nigelswift
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Re: Stonehenge Tunnel Decision
Dec 02, 2020, 02:54
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But the sad thing is this manifestation of it, short and cheap, was a David Cameron West Country vote-catching exercise and the business case, according to the National Audit Office, isn't there, it's not value for money - and that was before we discovered Zoom.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Stonehenge Tunnel Decision
Dec 02, 2020, 12:09
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Absolutely. The business case fell between the stools of low cost v real benefit.
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