Topic: | Heathrow Airport should not be there in the first place | |
Posted by: | David Giles | |
Date/Time: | 17/01/08 21:15:00 |
These are indeed alarming photographs. It is madness to locate an airport East or West of an major population centre. That's why the French built Charles de Gaulle Airport North of Paris and the Italians likewise built Malpensa North of Milan. It's why Stanstead and Gatwick are more sensible locations than Heathrow. If BAA or its Spanish owners were to propose building an airport due West of East of M London today, one hopes that even the Labour Government, notorious for its incompetence, dithering and sleaze, would refuse planning permission. However Heathrow is there and we will have to live with it until an aircraft crashes in London landing or taking off and kil;ls hundreds if not thousands of people. In the meantime we have to stop the expansion and elect MP's who will vote against it- unlike the Keens. |