| Topic: | Giles is confusing me | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 14/11/12 21:43:00 |
| "He said the airport should have been built either North or South of London." As indeed was the finding of the Roskill Commission, which placed it north west of London at Cublington. Predictably this being a well off Tory area capable of organising an well funded and well connected campaign against there was no chance in hell of this actually happening, hence where we are today. Heathrow's not actually in the 'wrong' place, the right place is probably about ten miles north (around Bovingdon, I reckon), but there are actually worse places for it to be, like, oh I don't know, east of the city, or right next to a hill, or in Hyde Park. As said above, building an airport in the right place is politically impossible in the past, now or in the future, so we're stuck with it. "why compound the error now when it is expanding rapidly" Why are we even discussing LHR R3 when the government elected two years ago has a clear mandate not to build it? Do tell. A quick suggestion: sack George Osborne. He's the problem here. [by the way, Manchester Airport's had two fatal accidents where planes have come down on the built up area while approaching the airport to land into the prevailing wind, which actually routes them slap bang over Stockport and Cheadle. Check a map. Birmingham has take-offs over quite built up areas, for that matter. Gatwick and Luton are actually the obvious UK examples of being south and north of the conurbation with mainly rural land affected] |