On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:12:06 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
tim... wrote:
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:11:01 +0100
Recliner wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 09:00:05 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
That depends if the traffic levels remained the same or whether people
who
would have driven find an alternative instead. I was in Nantes last week
and
while it was a PITA navigating the car through all the one way systems
and
blocked off roads in the centre, once you were on foot it was very
pleasent
with the pedestrianised and restricted streets with just trams and buses
passing by and not much other traffic apart from occasional delivery
vehicles.
People adapt.
I suppose it's the usual thing: those who will (or think they will) be
adversely affected know who they are in advance, and complain loudly.
Those who may in the future benefit from the change don't know they
might, and don't applaud loudly. In particular, future tourists don't
get a vote.
True. Thats where politicians are supposed to come however and look to the
common good. Sadly with the spineless pillocks in this country in all
parties
there's little chance of it happening. Unless its $14 billion being flung
at
the spanish owner of heathrow of course
I thought the whole idea of airport expansion was that the airport was
expected to pay for it themselves
They a the expansion will be privately funded by HAL, ultimately funded
by airline access charges (currently around £20/passenger, but which may
rise). But TfL has warned that HAL may not be so willing to pay for
infrastructure and public transport upgrades outside the airport.
Sure, and Porcine Airlines will be the first flight out. There is simply no
way they can raise that sort of money on the open market, the government will
be coughing up if they want it finished. And thats before you factor in the
economic chaos that the delays on the M25 caused by putting it in a tunnel
will create. All because some idiots believed the spin that we don't have
enough runways in the SE. Obviously nobody mentioned Gatwick, Stansted, Luton,
London City and Southend to them. And then there's Marsden in kent which is
soon to be turned into a housing estate. Go figure.
Oh, Heathrow doesn't have a Spanish owner. It's a multinational consortium.
Ferrovial are Spanish and none of the rest of them arn't British either so it
really makes little odds. Any profit heads off out of the country.