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Plan to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street scrapped
Richard J. wrote:
Recliner wrote on 08 Jun 2018 at 20:03 ... Roland Perry wrote: In message -sept ember.org, at 14:12:06 on Fri, 8 Jun 2018, Recliner remarked: 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. Are HAL paying the whole cost of the M25 tunnel (after the runway's finished, it'll be within the airport's footprint). I'm not sure. It's not even clear if there will be a tunnel. As I understand it, the runway will cross the M25 on a bridge or viaduct, and will have a slight uphill gradient towards the west in order to clear the motorway. Such gradients on runways are not uncommon, with Birmingham being a notable example (see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP35ULU6IcQ ) That's one of the possibilities. There are several competing proposals. The airlines are afraid that HAL will go for the most expensive option, as that allows it to charge them more, so they're campaigning for a cheaper option, such as the viaduct runway over an undisturbed M25, and no new terminal. |
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