| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Third Runway | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 28/03/12 13:54:00 |
| "Why is your campaign singling out Heathrow" Heathrow is upwind of London - therefore the pollution it generates is blown across the most densely populated area in the country (probably on the continent) by the prevailing westerlies. Heathrow's flight paths are directly over densely populated areas. We have been incredibly lucky that the only major plane crash at Heathrow, the Staines disaster of 1972 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_European_Airways_Flight_548 - did not come down onto a housing estate. Next time we may not be so lucky, and everyone will be asking why on earth Heathrow was allowed to expand in such an inappropriate site. Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, Jeddah have all managed to build major new airports when their existing ones became unsuitable for further growth. Ted Heath's government proposed to do the same for London in the 1970s but Harold Wilson's outfit cancelled it. 40-odd years of growth-creep at Heathrow were the result. The time has come to grasp the nettle and build a new airport downwind of London, and let Heathrow wither away. |