Water and hills Options

[SirWilliam]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-40547691

So some bright spark has decided that our beloved Lake District should be given UNESCO status.

Now I am all for conservation but history shows us that when we place these things in the hands of people who live miles away then it is a recipe for disaster, ( a bit like the pricks in Westminster ). Most people only visit the lakes in summer but it is a landscape forged by millenniums of weather, ( usually VERY wet ), hill farming and a singular lack of human intervention.

I do like the passing reference to Stonehenge and, as anyone who has had the misfortune to drive down that way of late will testify, what a pig's ear they have achieved with that.

[SirWilliam]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-41227359

£1.6 billion just in case the sun decides to show it's face in the middle of December ? Plotus Lostus comes to mind .

Yes the 303 has a problem that needs addressing , and it aint going to be cheap but for that sort of money they could upgrade to dual carriageway from Amesbury to Honiton , including a new section going North of Winterbourne Stoke .

Why does traffic use this route over M4 / M5 when everyone knows they are going to be held up anyway ?

I surmise that if you are using someone elses money all they need to do is have austerity for another 20 years and it will be paid for .

[Biker1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-41227359
Why does traffic use this route over M4 / M5 when everyone knows they are going to be held up anyway ?

I should imagine that one of the reasons is that it is about 35 miles shorter.
In these days of major concern about the emissions of cars (ref. the diesel debarcle!) maybe folks think this matters?
Also, if everyone currently using the 303 switched to M4/5 then I would imagine that they would become a car park themselves?

As an aside there was one comment from someone on the Jeremy Vine show yesterday who declared he wanted things to remain as they are as he and his kids enjoyed the slow ride past the monument and that this was of historical value to his children!!