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Miserable bit of road. One 60 mph stretch by Stonehenge is so reliabley congested protestors walk up between the cars with leaflets demanding a dual carriageway

Miserable bit of road. One 60 mph stretch by Stonehenge is so reliabley congested protestors walk up between the cars with leaflets demanding a dual carriageway. To be honest the whole south coastline of the UK is a narrow road winding through the middle of towns and villages. You don't quite drive through farmyards scattering geese but it's often close.

dkdbejwi383 5y ago
It's unfortunate that the ancient Britons built Stonehenge pretty much exactly where you'd want a motorway from Exter to London to run. What's worse is the state of the railways in the south west.
- cameronh90 5y ago
  As I don't have a car, the South West is really the only part of Great Britain that I haven't explored. Really wish we could build some decent rail infrastructure out there...
  - nicoburns 5y ago
    To be fair you can actually get to most part of the south west by train, it's just slow. As someone whose parents live in that part of the world I'd definitely appreciate faster trains though.
  - jen20 5y ago
    The train to Bath and Bristol (from London) is sufficiently good to use as a daily commuter if necessary (I’ve done it from Bath in the past even before the 2019 schedule reworking), but going anywhere further south west by train is pretty miserable. It’s particularly sad if you look at the pre-Beeching map and consider what could have been there instead.
- drawfloat 5y ago
  The only thing worse than the railways in the South West are the railways everywhere other than the South East.
- Reason077 5y ago
  > "It's unfortunate that the ancient Britons built Stonehenge pretty much exactly where you'd want a motorway from Exter to London to run." I remember seeing a documentary once that argued this was no accident. Stonehenge was a site meant to be visited, centrally located and easy to access. The route of the A303, more or less, has likely existed since ancient times, pre-dating Stonehenge.

dkdbejwi383 5y ago

It's unfortunate that the ancient Britons built Stonehenge pretty much exactly where you'd want a motorway from Exter to London to run. What's worse is the state of the railways in the south west.

cameronh90 5y ago
As I don't have a car, the South West is really the only part of Great Britain that I haven't explored. Really wish we could build some decent rail infrastructure out there...
- nicoburns 5y ago
  To be fair you can actually get to most part of the south west by train, it's just slow. As someone whose parents live in that part of the world I'd definitely appreciate faster trains though.
- jen20 5y ago
  The train to Bath and Bristol (from London) is sufficiently good to use as a daily commuter if necessary (I’ve done it from Bath in the past even before the 2019 schedule reworking), but going anywhere further south west by train is pretty miserable. It’s particularly sad if you look at the pre-Beeching map and consider what could have been there instead.
drawfloat 5y ago
The only thing worse than the railways in the South West are the railways everywhere other than the South East.
Reason077 5y ago
> "It's unfortunate that the ancient Britons built Stonehenge pretty much exactly where you'd want a motorway from Exter to London to run." I remember seeing a documentary once that argued this was no accident. Stonehenge was a site meant to be visited, centrally located and easy to access. The route of the A303, more or less, has likely existed since ancient times, pre-dating Stonehenge.