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Heathrow third runway to get the go ahead
On Jan 15, 3:45*pm, Roland Perry wrote:
You may not have noticed the number of layoffs in banking and retail, and the reduction of consumer spending (shops in Oxford St need customers as well as staff). So the tube is now nice and relaxed then in the rush hour? Everyone can get a seat , there are no packed platforms and the trains all run on time? That would be a first. Heathrow is far from being essential and isn't overloaded anyway. It's severely overloaded, and "essential" for UK plc's international business ambitions. Yeah right. We keep hearing that , I'd love to see some figures and explanations of how a single runway is suddenly going to rescue our economy. Southern briitain is already the biggest airport hub in the whole of europe so if we can't sort the economy out based on that then this will do naff all. *The amount of economic activity provided to the economy by air travel *is minimal... Even most business can be done using phone or email. *From these remarks I can see you are completely out of touch with reality. Although large volumes of "grunt trading" can be done hands-off, you can generally only set up the initial relationships in person. I'm not saying theres *no* business travel, but the amount of essential business travel is minute compared to the overall traffic flows at heathrow. When you turn up at the airport how many people do you see in suits compared to jeans and t-shirts with optional kids in tow? Ok , some are off in first or business class lounges but thats a small minority compared to economy. Once upon a time the answer was a third airport - which ended up at Stansted. You may have noticed that Stansted has expansion plans too. Right , so the expansion that was Stansted didn't work so now we need yet more. Tell me, where does it stop? You're not good with analogies are you. Hoon has just announced more roadbuilding. Thats just road widening , not new roads. These plans have been on the cards for ages and would probably have happened bust or not. Also roads are a lot more important than airports to the economy. B2003 |
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