The Stonehenge road tunnel aims to reduce road congestion and to hide the A303 from view (Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel, 11 December). Both concerns could be addressed by the judicious installation of hedges, thus avoiding the cost and environmental damage of the tunnel. Regular users of the road will know that drivers slowing to view the monument is the main cause of congestion, which invariably disappears once the monument is passed. A green solution is within reach, perhaps via a competition among landscape architects.
Roy Dietz
Twickenham, London
• Your report on Stonehenge says that part of its magic is the moment of reveal when you drive along the A303, and you gasp and point. I suspect that much of the gasping and pointing is prompted by the surprise that the monument looks rather small and insignificant in its hilly setting, framed by an interminable traffic jam pumping out non-neolithic noxious fumes.
Paddy Clark
Chiddingfold, Surrey
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