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Boris Island feasibility study published
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, John Rowland wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote: Not that i'm complaining - more smaller islands means more coastline, which i hope will be constructed as ecologically vital saltmarsh. Unless they invent a new engine which is birdproof, I think not. I was hoping nobody'd think of that! From what i remember of my biology lessons, and a youth spent living next to one, salt marshes are not enormously brilliant habitats for birds; they're mostly about invertebrates and simple plants, and doing all sorts of valuable but dull low-level nutrient recycling (including selenium - i don't know why i remember thus, but basically, without saltmarshes, the selenium cycle is stuffed). If birds are a problem, then salt marsh covered with acres of chicken wire slung between low poles would still be hugely ecologically valuable. Would Crossrail trains run through to the airport? Good thinking - I'd say so. I worry it might be a bit far for what is really a suburban railway. But then i'm someone who thinks Maidenhead is too far. And what happens on the Essex side? A connection to one of the existing Southend stations? Somehow connecting to Stansted - two sides of a triangle via Stratford, or some new line running along the M25/M11 to join the existing line at Harlow? NIOL [Not In Our Lifetimes]. Sad but true. tom -- Finals make a man mean; let's fusc up and write! |
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