English Heritage Create Traffic Chaos at Airman's Cross

Well, much as anticipated, the poor design of the entrance to the new Stonehenge Visitor's Centre is creating a new choke point for traffic.  Visitors trying to get to Stonehenge are blocking the new Airman's Cross roundabout, preventing traffic moving along the A360 and the B3086 Bustard road.

JMcK, a kindly correspondent from Shrewton,  took some snaps from the passengers seat of a car on Sunday 29th December.

You can see stationary traffic in both directions in the shot above...

...and as you might expect, people were getting fed up and turning back towards Shrewton and then join the A303 after cutting through to Winterbourne Stoke.

Today, 2nd January 2014, the situation is exactly the same with the RAC reporting:

Errr - it looks as though no-one has told the RAC that the A344 no longer exists.  I guess that would be down to a combination of Wiltshire Council and the Highways Agency.  Either that, or the Stonehenge land trains have broken down yet again!


Goodness alone knows what the situation is going to be like in fine weather during the summer.  When we were demonstrating last month about the A344 closure and the A303 traffic problems; problems precipitated by English Heritage's desire to have the A344 closed without dualling the A303, Wiltshire Police were very keen to point out that we could be arrested if we caused an obstruction.  Fair enough, but shouldn't they now be applying the same standards to those blocking the Airman's Cross roundabout and those causing the A360 to be blocked - English Heritage?