In message
, at
08:55:32 on Sat, 8 Oct 2011, allantracy
remarked:
the Tories (sorry coalition's) secret agenda is to turn Birmingham
Airport into another London Airport, using HS2 as the mechanism,

Why a secret, it's a pretty obvious way to increase (air) capacity at
much lower low cost/impact than a third runway at Heathrow. And
Birmingham Airport's much easier to get to. People also forget that even
today's WCML does Birningham Airport-Euston in 74mins, compared to 1hr
by tube from Heathrow.

presumably the new link would plug into HS2.

Not if HS2 fails to have a station at Heathrow.

The runway extension at Birmingham to accommodate the largest jets
(fully laden) has already begun.

A plan hatched under NuLab.
--
Roland Perry