Re: STONEHENGE OWNER funds A303 Improvement:

On Feb 29, 12:54 pm, Whiskers <catwhee...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-02-29, Digger <p.du...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



"Garry Denke" <GDe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Supermarket giant Tesco is planning to open a Mega-depot warehouse
near Stonehenge

Hardly!! Andover is over ten miles from Stonehenge!

But adding even more 40-ton lorries to the single-carriageway A303 isn't a
good move.  

Andover is probably cheaper to build in than places with proper existing
motorway access, which is where huge warehouses ought to be (if there are
genuine compelling reasons for using lorries instead of trains or boats, of
course).  I can't say that adding a huge warehouse to Andover will do any
harm to Andover itself, from what little I've seen of the place as I've
queued up to get through it or past it on the way elsewhere.

Perhaps someone is hoping that adding Tesco's traffic to the existing
congestion will revive plans to upgrade the A303 to dual carriageway all
the way from the M3 to the M5 despite the ancient beautiful and sacred
landscape in the way?  

That is what Tesco PLC's hoping (banking on), Whiskers, but only to
just west of Winterbourne Stoke.

http://www.tescocorporate.com/

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