On Jan 15, 10:40*am, Roland Perry wrote:
When you're in a bust you don't start spending billions on vanity
projects.

So you'd recommend suspending Crossrail until we are well into the next
boom (and suffering from the fact it doesn't exist yet)?

Crossrail is required because even now the tube is an essential
service (the majority of its passengers are not off on holiday) that
is hopelessly overloaded. Heathrow is far from being essential and
isn't overloaded anyway. As you say , its merely "predicted" to be so
based on some finger in the air guesitmates which are now all null and
void anyway.

so why build a new runway now when they're dropping??

because it's predicted to rise, later.

And we all now how accurate predictions are. Anyone who can predict
what will happen to the world economy in the next decade is either
deluded or a liar.

Of course, there might be other solutions, such as closing Heathrow and
running 4tph Eurostar to CDG - but have you modelled the consequences
for the UK economy?

Wtf are you talking about? The amount of economic activiy provided to
the economy by air travel is minimal. Most goods come and go by ship
and most trading is done electronically. Even most business can be
done using phone or email.

Also economic growth (when it returns) is unsustainable anyway. At
some point it has to stop and building more and more runways isn't the
answer - what happens in 20 years if the new one is overloaded? Build
another on top of hounslow? And another on top of staines when thats
saturated too?

Its like saying "oh , theres less traffic on the roads -
lets build some bypasses!"

The road building programme (such as it is) hasn't been suspended
because of the bust.

You're not good with analogies are you.

B2003