Representation by Jonathan Smith
- Date submitted
- 5 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
1/ East end (Countess roundabout). Raising the height of the A303 through road puts noise pollution into a wider area (bad). Traffic will be able to run at 70mph where currently it stops/slows for the roundabout. It seems to me that putting the A345 on a single bridge over the top of an A303 aligned at its current height (ie ground level) is possible (and might be cheaper). Given the bulk of traffic is A303 (East/West) to A345 (South), there are other junction layout possibilities for keeping the new A303 lower. An example junction is the M5/B4509.
2/ West end of tunnel. This is just about money really. It would be much better to continue the cut and cover West to the boundary of the Stonehenge special area.
3/ Fundamentally though, please go ahead and build this asap, the A303 Stonehenge is stinker at peak summer traffic times, with huge delays.