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4th March 2004, Page 13
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Keywords : Wiltshire, Stonehenge, Druid

Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up oft way the newspapers have covered the transport world this week.

About 5000 years ago work started on what has become c of the greatest mysteries in English history. Fast forward a millennium and we are still scratching our heads — not about what Stonehenge is for, but about why we can't pi anything better than shoddy facilities at the sacred site.

As well as ruing the day that a bunch of druids decic against robes for goalposts, opting instead for somethir a little sturdier and thereby provr ding us with a modern c tourism tight spot, we can express immense gratitude th hooded loons have created a monster of a traffic proble us as well. As if we needed their help.

The Times was present at the start of another Stonehenge Public Inquiry —set to last two months —which hopes to resolve how to rid the site of its stranglii roads and nose-to-tail traffic.

In the blue corner the Highways Agency and English Heritage will argue that a 1.3-mile, £200m tunnel is the b solution. In the red corner, the National Trust and the "So Stonehenge Campaign Group" will argue otherwise (thc NT concede a tunnel is needed, only much longer, perh avoid Wiltshire altogether which is rich in ancient burials other druid paraphernalia).

Word has it that some modern-day druids will also gi statements, although this is less to do with the dark mag animatronics than with a modern-day order of ecologica minded pagans who want to keep the site nice and tidy.

Save Stonehenge's Chris Woodford shrewdly told Tt Times: "People should have no illusions about democra inquiry is designed to rubber-stamp a decision made ye ago." His cynicism is correctly placed: those meddling c got us into this pickle shortly after the dawn of man, therE preceding the government's best efforts by a good few

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