Upgraded Designs Unveiled for Road Tunnel Near Stonehenge
Historic England said that This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reunite this ancient landscape, giving people the opportunity to tread pathways used by our ancestors who built the monuments, to visit
and appreciate the monuments and see and hear wildlife without the intrusion of the traffic and noise from the road,
Unesco welcomed that If you tamper with it, you are not going to get it back.
"Each of these milestones in the region is evidence of Highways England delivering major infrastructure upgrades for the whole country." Despite the revisions to the designs, archaeologists warned
that prehistorical remains at the site of the monument would be ruined by the construction of a tunnel and called for the plans to be scrapped completely.
Supported by By Ceylan Yeginsu LONDON — Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument in England
that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, is closer to getting a traffic tunnel nearby to "enhance and protect" the tranquil environment of the ancient landscape.
Heritage groups had also been concerned that the proposed tunnel exit would be too close to the
Normanton Down Barrows, a collection of tombs that is a part of the Stonehenge landscape.
In the proposal, the latest and most significant one put forward by Highways England, the British government
organization overseeing the project, the tunnel would be longer than previously envisaged: 1.8 miles.
