London Banter - View Single Post - Plan to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street scrapped

Graeme Wall · June 11th 18, 12:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 11/06/2018 12:42, wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:13:13 +0100
"tim..." wrote:
wrote in message news
No one would want to fly from heathrow if it didn't have 2 rail links and
a motorway going to it.

Don't be silly. It's reasonably centrally located in SE England with a
population of about 15 million within an hour and a half's drive

If it didn't have any PT links or a motorway it would take a damn site more
than 1.5 hours to reach it - the roads would be gridlocked.

Unless you have a car you can't get to Manston
yet those in power throw their hands up and say "Look, no one uses it!".
Well
quelle surprise.

There's a loads of secondary airports that can only easily be reached by car

Yet they manage to achieve a critical mass of customers - because they have
a large enough local catchment

Manston does not

Yet oddly it worked for Hong Kong.

You can't get a tailor made suit in 24 hours in Manston.

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Graeme Wall
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