Upgraded Designs Unveiled for Road Tunnel Near Stonehenge<br />Historic England said that This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reunite this ancient landscape, giving people the opportunity to tread pathways used by our ancestors who built the monuments, to visit<br />and appreciate the monuments and see and hear wildlife without the intrusion of the traffic and noise from the road,<br />Unesco welcomed that If you tamper with it, you are not going to get it back.<br />"Each of these milestones in the region is evidence of Highways England delivering major infrastructure upgrades for the whole country." Despite the revisions to the designs, archaeologists warned<br />that prehistorical remains at the site of the monument would be ruined by the construction of a tunnel and called for the plans to be scrapped completely.<br />Supported by By Ceylan Yeginsu LONDON — Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument in England<br />that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, is closer to getting a traffic tunnel nearby to "enhance and protect" the tranquil environment of the ancient landscape.<br />Heritage groups had also been concerned that the proposed tunnel exit would be too close to the<br />Normanton Down Barrows, a collection of tombs that is a part of the Stonehenge landscape.<br />In the proposal, the latest and most significant one put forward by Highways England, the British government<br />organization overseeing the project, the tunnel would be longer than previously envisaged: 1.8 miles.
