MAKE HEATHROW MASSIVE
Warning – the cavemen (and women) are flexing their little pasty vegetarian muscles over their desire to keep Britain where it belongs as a backwater state with no decent airports.Apparently RBC has now jumped on the eco-warrior band wagon by adding it’s lefty voice to the NO campaign. Why? Reading’s getting a new rail/air link – they should be as supportive of the new runway as they are about spanking drivers.
IN MEMORY OF
Paddy Higgins
GID'S NIB
A couple of wrinklies have won £25 Million on the Euro Lottery saying that it's not going to change their lives.
Silly bastards, make them give it back.
2080
Rainy winters snug by the fire, sunny hot summers like Spain growing olives, grapes, lemons and limes; this is climate change - don't listen to them - they're talking bollocks.
HARMAN BACKS BROWN
Harman tells reporters: Like every sturdy knocker, this Country needs a knob and Gordon's the best man for the job.
WELL DONE PIERRE
A big thank you to Pierre, Jean Paul, Luc and Marco, the four Froggie fishermen for starving Britain of goods over the last few days - that's not 'French' at all is it?
HELLO
Please follow one of the many links scattered around to the Orangutan charities.
Warning – the cavemen (and women) are flexing their little pasty vegetarian muscles over their desire to keep Britain where it belongs as a backwater state with no decent airports.
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If you want to have a world-class airport with world-class facilities and capacity then surely building a new one from scratch at Cliffe in the Thames estuary is a better answer.
Overflying the sea annoys less residents with the noise, while an encircling ring of airports should be expected to reduce congestion around the capital. The location at Cliffe also takes into account a potential major new road rail crossing of the Thames and could include new commercial port facilities (Tilbury is suffering from underinvestment and overcapacity, just like Heathrow) and a new tidal control system to prevent flooding of London.
Of course such an integrated approach requires bigger ideas and bigger investment, but compared with the expansion plans of competitors like Frankfurt, ChdG and Schipol, such a scheme holds numerous advantages.
Additional benefits could easily include tidal or wind farms to negate the need for the Kingsnorth coal-fired energy plant, a new integrated air and sea traffic-control centre and the creation of new wildlife habitats, among other things.
So, the environmental concerns can be overcome and satisfied, but the recession reduces the attraction of a minimum £30bn pricetag at the current time (expect that to rise to at least £100bn when other considerations are taken into account).
I also think it's too close to a general election where overall control is at stake to allow for a sensible debate.
However, looking at the long-term picture by ignoring the likely sensationalist headlines I think it is inevitable, and if done well, would be a good thing.
Then Heathrow could be redeveloped to allow for the required additional concourse capacity or potentially downgraded without any negative effects. However two runways is plenty for that particular site in that particular location with that particular infrastructure.
Does that clarify things from my POV?
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