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Crossrail fares announced - and a massive extension!
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:17:14 +0000
Roland Perry wrote: 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. Possibly, but I would guess that the majority of people who would prefer to take a train to central london don't want to pay extortionate fares only to be dumped at paddington. If anything a new 3rd runway will need HEx even more, to deliver the pollution reduction targets. Given an airliner can use anything up to a ton of fuel (747) just to taxi around a large airport such as Heathrow , the contribution of ground traffic to the overall pollution increase that the 3rd runway will cause is probably negligable. |
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