Should there be a tunnel under Stonehenge?

THE £1.6billion tunnel under Stonehenge is intended to hide the sight and sound of the A303 road from anyone visiting the monument (Mail). No one seems to have thought that Stonehenge will be hidden from those passing on the road. If this scheme goes ahead, no one except tourists willing to make a time-consuming and costly detour will have any idea of what Stonehenge looks like. The £1.6billion should be spent on improving the congested road? Miss SIERRA HUTTON-WILSON, Evercreech, Somerset. A TUNNEL for the A303 has been approved to the dismay of some who believe it could damage Stonehenge. Needed instead is a new motorway linking the M3 to the M5 at Exeter, routed away from Stonehenge. It’s ridiculous that cars have to crawl along this holiday route. DAVID KILPATRICK, St Albans, Herts. HOW can the Government claim to be hard up when it can waste £1.6billion on a tunnel under Stonehenge? If this project was cancelled and the cash spent on the NHS it would be a vote winner. KEITH THOMPSON, Warrington, Cheshire. THE £1.6billion tunnel will not only protect the World Heritage Site, but will be a fiscal boost for the region, with the added benefits of quicker journey times, reduced congestion and cleaner air. The port of Liverpool could really do with a tunnel to link it to main routes, but it appears that our politicians are failing to deliver on the promised Northern powerhouse. GERRY DOYLE, Liverpool. DID our ancestors, who put a pile of stones near a main road, realise the trouble they would cause us all these centuries later? MARTIN HAVARD, Chulmleigh, Devon.