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Highways England has its head in the sand about rubbernecking at Stonehenge

Andrew Nicolson
05 February 2021

 

For highway and traffic engineers, Stonehenge is globally unique among monuments. It is ancient, iconic, short in stature, in a rural area, and close to a major road of moderate capacity. No wonder, then, that it induces ‘rubbernecking’, the distraction of drivers who then slow down. Rubbernecking at Stonehenge is both prevalent, and a dominant cause of delay, implying that Highways England’s ambitious A303 tunnel scheme takes a sledgehammer to crack a nut, is poor value for...

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