And you expect them to carry on digging if they find invaluable archeological artefacts?
Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel
GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 months agoThere could be countless archeological objects in the surrounding area. So digging for no good reason is a bad idea.
Though I don’t know if any specific stability risk, the vibrations and disturbance from construction is a non zero (but probably low) risk to the stability of the site.
Also roads create pollution, which in general should try to be kept as far as possible from natural or ancient archeological sites.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 9 months ago
GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No but they would have damaged the site
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 9 months ago
With great respect that’s not how works happen in archaeologically sensitive areas. There’ll be a full search done ahead of earth works.
Nighed@sffa.community 9 months ago
I think a lot of money has been spent looking at the area to confirm there isn’t anything in its way - one of the other comments has a link about how everything was paused for 4 months when they did find something nearby.
If they can dig a tube tunnel through some of the places in london that they did for crossrail, this isn’t going to be a problem.
There is already an A-road there, one that is normally practically stationary due to how the road narrows there. by sticking it in a tunnel it saves the immediate area from the pollution. Hopefully as we electrify more vehicles that will get even better too.
For reference - this is how close the road currently is - getting it underground will make the immediate area much nicer.
Image