From the BBC
A new visitor center at Stonehenge will open in time for the winter solstice, English Heritage has said.
The £27m project also includes grassing over the A334 alongside the ancient monument and closing another section of the busy road.
The visitor center and museum will be located about a mile-and-a-half (2km) from the stones.
Visitors will be shuttled to Stonehenge by a little train, pulled by a Land Rover.
A few numbers: Stonehenge gets 1m visitors per year. Half of those are foreign tourists. So, over a couple of decades that's maybe £3/visitor to improve one of the biggest foreign draws. If they go home and tell their friends how great Stonehenge is and a few more of them come to the UK instead of elsewhere, it'll pay for itself. Heck, it might even pay for itself because people have a drink at the improved cafe rather than the rubbish that's there now.
Just thought I'd write this up because it's worth mentioning the rare-as-rocking-horse-shit occassion when I think that some extra government spending is worthwhile.
