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Roland Perry · March 19th 18, 12:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 11:25:15 on Mon, 19 Mar
2018, remarked:

(a) it would involve buying-out Heathrow's private infrastructure and
somehow compensating them for the lost premium fare revenue on HEx

An easier way would be to make it part of the condition for a 3rd runway.
"You want a runway that will blight the lives of millions of londoners,
cause untold extra pollution both on the ground and in the air and will cost
taxpayers a fortune? Then hand over Hex"

Part of the problem with that, is the main reason for HEx is to abstract
traffic from black cabs, aiming at the market for whom it's "A cab or
the Airport Express", and whatever you do to try to persuade them to use
what feels to a visitor like the local metro, doesn't deliver.

If anything a new 3rd runway will need HEx even more, to deliver the
pollution reduction targets.
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Roland Perry