Status of A303 Threatened

UNESCO warns that road may be delisted

UNESCO has warned that the A303 - a world heritage road - maybe delisted and classed as an 'endangered road' if the UK government goes ahead with building a tunnel under a pile of stones located in a nearby field.

The A303 has been a world heritage road for many years along with other UK roads such as the M6, M25 and London's North Circular.

If the A303 is delisted it will lose its heritage road status and therefore a great deal of traffic will avoid it since it will just become a road designed to get people from A to B rather than a visitor attraction.

In addition, the newly built Stonehenge visitor centre will need to be repurposed into a giant service complex for serving essential bacon rolls and lattes to those motorists crossing Salisbury Plain who failed to stop at the Solstice service area near Amesbury.

UNESCO is also threatening a double-whammy by delisting nearby Boscombe Down airfield as a world heritage nuclear bomber site.

A local Wiltshire Wurzel told FNN:

I don't know what I would do if the A303 is delisted by UNESCO. As there will be less traffic gawping at the stones I'll be able to get to places faster without the endless jams that plague the road today. It could change my life.

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