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Plan to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street scrapped
On 09/06/2018 00:32, 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.Â* Such gradients on runways are not uncommon, with Birmingham being a notable example (see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP35ULU6IcQ ) Why not take it to its extreme and follow the example of aircraft carriers and have a ski jump at the end? Would make takeoff more exciting, but I can see it may cause some problems for landing. Maybe take the lead from aircraft carriers again and have some kind of arrestor wire arrangement on a short piece of runway? |
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