Most expensive road in the world

[onthehoof]

Stonehenge tunnel 'costs £250k per metre' - £160m in total - so far

An FOI request found the scheme has cost £166,230,578 despite work on the ground starting.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Punch]

I think I’d rather have 250 more prison spaces. Same applies to HS2

 

[Yale]

And just stop oil walk in and deface the stones with robbed fire extinguishers.

 

[DrWazzock]

Things like this demonstrate that this country has had its day. It’s game over for Britain. Finished. Kaput. Bankrupt.

 

[serf]

I think I’d rather have 250 more prison spaces. Same applies to HS2

Don't think there's anyone that wants the white elephant apart from Boris and I bet he wasn't even sure ...

 

[serf]

Things like this demonstrate that this country has had its day. It’s game over for Britain. Finished. Kaput. Bankrupt.

And the gov want to start up and run a energy business

 

[FMF74]

Just have a free tip for muck away and build a bund

 

[David.]

As I have said before, if there is a genuine need for such infrastructure, Govt should just force it through. Could have been open by now.

 

[DrWazzock]

And the gov want to start up and run a energy business

As I have said before, if there is a genuine need for such infrastructure, Govt should just force it through. Could have been open by now.

Quite right. If it’s essential infrastructure it should be forced through otherwise it’s held up for years and millions spent as every Tom Dick and Harry objects often at no cost to themselves but at massive cost to whoever is trying to do some good for the country. That sort of thing has to stop.

 

[grainboy]

Bet we wouldn’t be allowed to build something like this in the uk

 

[Yale]

As I have said before, if there is a genuine need for such infrastructure, Govt should just force it through. Could have been open by now.

Along with the nuclear power stations they shelved.

 

[robs1]

Just have a free tip for muck away and build a bund

I've said this many times, several companies round here that would do it for nothing in exchange for no landfill tax, plant a few shrubs and trees and in a few years nothing visible, we had a new toad built through here on an embankment over flood prone land, within five years you couldn't see or hear it, it's another example of clever educated people making decisions that have not one gram of common sense

 

[robs1]

Along with the nuclear power stations they shelved.

Be interesting to see if labour build more, last Blair and brown chickened out of the hard decisions

 

[deleted user 837354]

It's a load of Codswallop. Those stones have stood there for eons, a bigger A303 won't bother them a jot. If you really think a bigger road is going to upset the integral druid energy of the stones and ruin the view on the winter solstice then just dig the road in about 10 foot, build some embankments and plant a load of trees alongside it each side. You'll never know the road was there, but no, some brainiac 'stakeholders' get involved and now want a fudging tunnel which the tax payer is going to have to cough up for. Absolutely ridiculous and another reason the UK is a muppet country.

 

[Kidds]

we had a new toad built through here on an embankment over flood prone land

I guess there was an inquiry and for some reason that was deemed more appropriate than a frog or a newt.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Quite right. If it’s essential infrastructure it should be forced through otherwise it’s held up for years and millions spent as every Tom Dick and Harry objects often at no cost to themselves but at massive cost to whoever is trying to do some good for the country. That sort of thing has to stop.

unless, it's pylons!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Anyway, I think the most expensive road has to be the Newport bypass, £135 000 000 and never going to be built

M4 relief road 'dead in the water' after £78m costs written off

Huge amounts of money were spent on the project before it was scrapped in 2019

www.walesonline.co.uk

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

As I have said before, if there is a genuine need for such infrastructure, Govt should just force it through. Could have been open by now.

Is there a genuine need though?

The cynic in me thinks this is just another ploy to charge a fee and if you can see it from the old road without paying, it's lost revenue.

 

[robs1]

Is there a genuine need though?

The cynic in me thinks this is just another ploy to charge a fee and if you can see it from the old road without paying, it's lost revenue.

The claim is that you shouldn't see the road from the stones not the other way round

 

[Swarfmonkey]

It's a load of Codswallop. Those stones have stood there for eons, a bigger A303 won't bother them a jot. If you really think a bigger road is going to upset the integral druid energy of the stones and ruin the view on the winter solstice then just dig the road in about 10 foot, build some embankments and plant a load of trees alongside it each side. You'll never know the road was there, but no, some brainiac 'stakeholders' get involved and now want a fudging tunnel which the tax payer is going to have to cough up for. Absolutely ridiculous and another reason the UK is a muppet country.

The funny thing is that a lot of those stones haven't been standing for aeons. The first big rebuild was in the early 1900's, and they were still moving stuff around there in the late 1950's.

The whole road/tunnel thing is a load of bollox, and I wouldn't be surprised if there is some kind of financial relationship between those in government who signed off on the idea and the contractors who stand to gain financially from it (yeah, I know. I'm cynical )