Tourism chiefs welcome Stonehenge tunnel
Tourism chiefs have welcomed a £15 billion project to improve roads including a tunnel near the popular tourist attraction Stonehenge.
VisitEngland chief executive James Berresford said the transport infrastructure was key to ensuring visitors can make links between destinations and tourist attractions in England.
He said: "Proposed plans include investment in a new 2.9km tunnel to remove the A303 from the Stonehenge landscape, a World Heritage Site and major tourist attraction.
"The announcement has been welcomed by both English Heritage and the National Trust, and clearly demonstrates the importance Government places on tourism, the potential our treasured heritage sites have to grow the visitor economy, and the importance in protecting our most treasured icons."
The proposed tunnel near Stonehenge in Wiltshire is part of the Government project which includes road improvement and expansion schemes.
Announcing the plan, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said roads were ‘key to our nation’s prosperity’ and had suffered from under-investment for too long.
The plans, described as a ‘roads revolution’ by ministers, have been published in the first ever Road Investment Strategy which also outlines plans to turn the Highways Agency into a government-owned company.
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