From Broadcasting House on R4 just now:
“The blocks at Stonehenge were raised 4000 years ago, oddly close to the A303 where drivers report a similar queueing time.”
I have always felt that it was a stupid place to build, so close to a main road.
I don’t know why people are moaning about the Oasis reunion ‘dynamic pricing’ rip-off.
Oasis have already ripped off the Beatles, Slade, Marc Bolan & T-Rex… so why not their fans?
Presumably, they applied for retrospective planning permission.
Cavemen chose the location to maximise tourist income. They weren’t daft.
Yeah, but they could have dug a tunnel under it first, for the road to go through. A little bit of foresight, guys.
Stonehenge took about 1,500 years to complete, start to finish…You can all add your punchline of choice.
I wonder how they set it for summer or winter.
Same contractors who have taken 4 years to complete 8 miles dualing the A30 between Chiverton and Carland Cross, just outside Truro, here in Cornwall.
And they’re still sorting the local roads out, and will be for some months to come.
Obviously live near me!
A brisk 5 minute walk from the Camel Trail at the Borough Arms
And if you want a real “roads” joke, I can give you the M27… three years to turn it into a “smart” motorway, then another two years to resurface the very same bits they had been working on for the previous three years.
M1 around me is similar. Years making it a smart motorway and now more time putting in the extra safe refuges that were apparently in the original design but not implemented, presumably to save cost.
The M6 near me should have been completed in spring 2023 and has now been extended to spring 2025. A friend that is working on the project told me that it’s the last “smart motorway” that will be built so they are dragging it out for as long as possible