Rock sculpture by Weymouth Relief Road is a waste (From Dorset Echo)

Rock sculpture by Weymouth Relief Road is a waste

10:35am Friday 12th March 2010 in

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I WRITE with reference to the article ‘Bould Move’ (Echo, March 5) about the proposed sculpture on the route of the new Weymouth Relief Road.

Well, all I can say is that we have identified the accident blackspot for the new road before it is even finished.

Why, oh why, does Dorset County Council think that anyone will want to look at a series of boulders stuck 10 feet high along the route?

I thought that the idea of the new road was to get traffic moving and not cause an accident blackspot.

And how on Earth can this be seen to be art?

That’s not to mention adverse weather conditions.

As I’m sure everyone is aware, the wind whips across the top of Ridgeway so there would have to be at least 10 feet of pole in the ground as well to enable some stability.

I guess that holes would have to be drilled into these ‘historic’ rocks too in order for them to ‘sit’ on top of the poles so defacing the history of them. It is a total waste of money.

Surely the area could be landscaped instead. A much more environmentally-friendly idea, and much more pleasing on the eye, would be to have them at eye level.

It would mean that drivers would not have to take their eyes off the road to look up and think ‘what the...’ To look up might cause them to veer off the road or into the back of another vehicle.

Even if artist Richard Harris feels that the boulders should remain then yes, okay, put them at ground level along the route but certainly not stuck 10 feet in the air.

Please, county council, reconsider, let’s have something that’s viable and not a blatant waste of money.

SUSAN SEAL, Field Barn Drive, Southill, Weymouth