By Isle of Wight Observer
Dear Editor,
On the news the other night I heard the government has spent £175 million on the Stonehenge tunnel and not a bit of earth has been moved. Why not build a tunnel to the Isle of Wight with that money instead? And make it a toll tunnel, just to the mainland, and issue permanent IW residents a pass to use it for free. Then charge £50 a time to get to and from the Island and it will soon pay for itself. Let all the heavy vehicles, caravans, etc use the ferries. Hopefully by then they will think about reducing their fares.
This would free up the services for the Island so we can get across to the hospitals. Make it an automated barrier, so we can use an Island pass on the other side to get through, which will be brilliant for the Islanders who feel like we’re stuck in Alcatraz.
The only downside to this is the Island traffic will become like the M25, the biggest car park in the world.
We all have problems, I know of people who have moved off the Island because of ferry expenses, and I know of people going to Portsmouth for cancer treatments and they couldn’t get a ferry to get back.
I really hope that our two new Island MPs will sort something out for us.
Ray Batson, Freshwater