For me, the tension starts just before the Avebury roundabout. Where you know there is only another half-mile of dual carriageway left, just before the jam begins... how long will it be this time, five minutes or an hour? And then, however long the wait, the breath-taking sight of the stones themselves, in their sweeping setting but with that incongruous, traffic-choked road running past. Yes, it's the peculiar joy of the A303 past Stonehenge. A traffic and heritage problem which has frustrated motorists for decades and avoided decisive solutions for as long.
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