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Boris Island feasibility study published
Tom Anderson wrote:
http://www.teaco.co.uk/siteplan.pdf That plan puts the airport nearest to Herne Bay and Whitstable; the article explicitly says Southend and Sheerness. The article could be wrong, but i suspect this is a different plan. Particularly since the article says Boris claims the plan is feasible, and even he could see that that one's bonkers - the amount of tunnel involved would be immense. tom Looking around the place, that PDF is about as near to a genesis of the project as you can find - Marinair have been around a while and tried to get noticed in 2002, but were rejected. They seem to have found ready ears among Conservatives, though, which probably explains it. Remember, the level of technical knowledge and experience in the Boris camp is near-zero. Bags of zeal and gung-ho with-a-bit-of-courage-we-can-do-anything stuff, but seriously short on clue. It's difficult to know exactly what Boris is proposing in geospatial terms, but if you start sketching things out there aren't *that* many places to put an airport - you're constrained by the shipping channels, the S.S. Richard Montgomery, the built up area around Chatham and Rochester and the desirability of at least being close to the M2 and HS1. You can run your land access west of the built up area (across the Isle of Grain and between Gravesend and Rochester) or east across Sheppey, via the gap between Sittingbourne and Faversham*, but that's about it. My original finger-in-air guess was along the A289/A228 corridor, but that hits the wreck and means a very long under/overwater stretch along the Sheppey sea-front if Boris really is as far out to sea as his dredger's path took him : [see he http://tinyurl.com/af5guc] The farthest point was due north of Whitstable, about 7-8 miles from both coasts. Just because a plan's bonkers doesn't mean Boris won't take it seriously. There is another plan floating about that I'd like to see again, which was a tidal barrage in roughly the same area. There are elements of that in the plan glimpsed today. Tom * or Rainham and Sittingbourne, but HS1 is in the North Downs Tunnel at a likely junction. Mind you, a 200+km/h underground flying junction is not going to be the most loony part of the proposal. |
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