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June 8th 18, 03:41 PM
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Plan to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street scrapped
wrote in message news  On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:12:06 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: tim... wrote: wrote in message news
On Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:11:01 +0100Recliner 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, all filling up admittedly a second runway at any of these would be easier and much cheaper, whilst being almost as useful. 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. because next to no-one wants to fly from there three attempts to encourage people to do so have failed. It's pointless trying again. tim |
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