A303

[Andywright88]

Is it worth taking the A303 and up the A37 to get to the festival early weds morning? Anyone know if the changes at Stonehenge have helped?

[glasto-worker]

Is it worth taking the A303 and up the A37 to get to the festival early weds morning? Anyone know if the changes at Stonehenge have helped?

[parsonjack]

this may cause some delays

Resurfacing on the A303

The work will be carried out overnight from Thursday 29 May until the morning of Wednesday 9 July on the A303 between the A34 at Bullington Cross and Micheldever Station.

Work will take place between 10pm and 6am

http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/press-releases/resurfacing-on-the-a303-hampshire/

[glasto-worker]

blimey that could be painful for a lot of folks coming down from the East/London etc.....no easy way round it so probably best to simply allow more time...and kick back when/if you come to a standstill....

As far as Stonehenge goes I think the reports are that the changes have helped for Westbound traffic as there is now no queue of traffic attempting to turn right off the single carriageway stretch of A303....that road to Stonehenge has been closed and all Stonehenge traffic now has to turn right at the new roundabout approx a mile further on.

[manateemike]

blimey that could be painful for a lot of folks coming down from the East/London etc.....no easy way round it so probably best to simply allow more time...and kick back when/if you come to a standstill....

As far as Stonehenge goes I think the reports are that the changes have helped for Westbound traffic as there is now no queue of traffic attempting to turn right off the single carriageway stretch of A303....that road to Stonehenge has been closed and all Stonehenge traffic now has to turn right at the new roundabout approx a mile further on.

[parsonjack]

Fancy building Stonehenge near a busy trunk route...which Druid had that idea?

Tch.

[phillyfaddle]

I live locally to Stonehenge and I can say with some authority that the A303 going past it is abysmal. Not sure what reports you've read. Local residents are up in arms, there's been meetings with the MP, English Heritage and various people from the DoT to discuss what can be done. Whilst it was always a bad stretch before, it's now even worse.

If you're travelling in the early hours of the morning you will be ok, but any later - say from 7am - and you're likely to hit miles of traffic. If travelling later, I'd advise to take a detour and bypass it completely. Unfortunately, there's no detour that won't take you quite a few miles out of your way, but it may be preferable to sitting in almost stationary traffic for an hour. Or not. As for me, I'll be x-countrying it and picking up the A303 west from Wylye.