M3 cutting at Twyford Down
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The M3 cutting at Twyford Down is a major road excavation through a chalk downland landscape in Hampshire, England, that became a prominent focus of environmental protest in the early 1990s.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road cutting
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transport infrastructure project → |
| associatedWith | UK Department of Transport road expansion programme of the late 20th century → |
| carriedOutBy | UK government road contractors → |
| constructionStart | early 1990s → |
| constructionType | deep cutting → |
| controversy | choice of cutting rather than tunnel or alternative route → |
| country | England → |
| environmentalIssue |
biodiversity loss
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heritage protection → landscape conservation → |
| heritageContext | near historic city of Winchester → |
| impact |
destruction of archaeological features
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loss of chalk downland habitat → visual scarring of the landscape → |
| influenced | later UK transport and environmental policy debates → |
| knownFor |
controversy over damage to landscape and archaeology
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environmental protests in the early 1990s → |
| lengthApprox | several kilometres → |
| locatedIn |
Hampshire
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South East England → Twyford Down → |
| managedBy | National Highways → |
| near |
Twyford, Hampshire
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Winchester → |
| opened | mid-1990s → |
| opposedBy |
environmental activists
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heritage and conservation groups → local residents → |
| partOf | M3 motorway NERFINISHED → |
| passesThrough | chalk escarpment of Twyford Down → |
| protestMovement | roads protest movement in the United Kingdom → |
| purpose | to complete the M3 motorway between London and Southampton → |
| replaced | A33 Winchester bypass → |
| roadType | motorway → |
| significance | symbol of opposition to UK road-building policy in the 1990s → |
| subjectOf |
academic studies of environmental protest
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media coverage of environmental direct action → |
| terrainType | chalk downland → |
| timePeriod | late 20th century → |
| transportFunction | improving traffic flow on the M3 corridor → |
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