A Big Thank You From All At STAG

Thanks to everyone who took the time to turn out this morning and this afternoon to protest about the traffic chaos caused by the closure of the A344 and the subsequent "improvements" to Longbarrow Roundabout and Airman's Cross and to draw attention to our campaign to dual the A303 along its entire length, reduce rat-running through local villages, bypass Winterbourne Stoke and solve today's national and international embarrassment that is the Stonehenge World Heritage site.

Yes, you read that correctly.  We do want to try and achieve what English Heritage has so publicly and humiliatingly failed to do - that is to return Stonehenge to a car-free environment.  The only way to do that, is to remove the A303 from being alongside the stones - either by burying it, or moving it a long, long way away.  It must've been very embarrassing for English Heritage today to entertain the World's Press at the opening of the new Visitor's Centre with the traffic on the A303 still roaring along.  If they weren't embarrassed, they damn well should have been.  

A particular vote of thanks to the nice policeman who sat in his car by the side of the road for several hours this morning and a couple more this afternoon.  He must've been bored to tears, poor beggar, just waiting for something to happen that never did.   We were very tempted to indulge in a bit of civil disobedience - just to give him something to do.

Of course, the irony today was the car crash in Shrewton - at the very time we were pointing out the dangers of the rat run!