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> Simply widening it is unthinkable: the Stonehenge heritage site is a precious prehistoric landscape.

Looking at it on Google Maps, it seems the south of the road is just fields. It's unclear why the road can't be widened and a tunnel would be needed.

https://www.google.fr/maps/place/51°10'38.8"N+1°49'33.4"W/@5...

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Those fields are part of a UNESCO world heritage site, where countless neolithic artefacts (including human remains) would be disturbed or destroyed by construction.

Besides that, the road is very busy and noisy, and is a huge blight on the site itself. Visitors will get a much better sense of how Stonehenge felt for ancient visitors without the stinking, roaring A-road right next to it!

It is a very sensitive area for conservationists and historians. Pretty well guarantee that if they started to dig a hole to build a new road they would find something of interest that would delay the build and make the cost sky rocket.

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