Steve Firth wrote:

Hindhead OTOH is something to be ashamed of. The road needs widening
and this could be done quite easily along the current route but would
give some "interesting" curves for a dual carriageway. Or they could
bite the bullet and build the tunnel. In the time that it has taken
the
government to come to no decision over the route and hence to blight
every property adjoining that section of the A3, I've seen the
Italians develop three complete motorways through much more difficult
terrain
with tunnels of similar length every 10-20 km.

I reckon before Hindhead is solved, the Italians will have built the
third and fourth Gran' Sasso tunnels each about 11km in length.

They are going to build the Hindhead tunnel (see the Highways Agency
website) but by the time it is finished many of us will have retired.

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