Will we ever learn?

Wookster

New Thames Estuary airport 'could be built in six years'
Boris Johnson has suggested that a new airport sited in the Thames Estuary could take as little as six years to complete and would not cost the taxpayer anything to build.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/bba/9022146/New-Thames-Estuary-airport-could-be-built-in-six-years.html

What an utter waste of money. On a stupid vanity project. Just stick on another runway at Gatwick and Heathrow.

Mrs_Bones

I thought the problem was that there is not enough room to keep expanding Heathrow.

lewisa

Heathrow could be expanded at the expense of a village.

What I don't understand is the third runway at Heathrow was poo poo'd partly because of environmental impact, CO2, a village, that kind of thing.

So how is a 4 runway airport and 5 mountains worth of rubble less bad than another 1 mile strip of tarmac, 20 houses and a hairdressers?

Is a village really worth £50 billion?

Just multiply the compulsory purchase by 20, hell whatever, multiply it by 100. Everybody has a price.

Wookster

Mrs_Bones wrote: »

I thought the problem was that there is not enough room to keep expanding Heathrow.

There is enough space, but there is an extremely powerful NIMBY lobby.

CLAPTON

rubbish

the third heathrow runway was damned when Cameron was opposing everything that Brown was doing and so said he won't support the 3rd runway but would do HS2

so we will have no 3rd runway which would have been built with private sector money
and a white elephant HS2 being built at huge cost by the taxpayer

thank god we have astute market orientated politicians in power now

lewisa

CLAPTON wrote: »

rubbish

the third heathrow runway was damned when Cameron was opposing everything that Brown was doing and so said he won't support the 3rd runway but would do HS2

so we will have no 3rd runway which would have been built with private sector money
and a white elephant HS2 being built at huge cost by the taxpayer

thank god we have astute market orientated politicians in power now

Rubbish.

How can Team A oppose everything that Team B is doing when HS2 is something that both Team A and Team B wanted?

And how can Project A which aids 4 cities/regions be worse than Project B that only aids London?

It was the NIMBYs.

Just ask Jackie the Hairdresser.

Personally, I'd like all three, 3rd runway, land reclamation and HS2, and stick a load of wind turbines there as well for good measure.

yertiz_2

The A130 is a major road in England linking Little Waltham, near Chelmsford, the county town of Essex, with Canvey Island in the south of that county. ...
So the road ends there, or was it built as a link with a mind to building a bridge over to Kent? A bit too convenient methinks.

A._Badger

'NIMBY' - someone upset about the proposed desecration of where they live. Not where I live... that would be different, of course.

bendix

How can something that potentially costs the taxpayer nothing be a waste of money?

shaggydoo

I think it's a great idea.

bendix

If the Boris airport is anything like the Hong Kong example cited in the report, it would be unequivocably better than what you currently have. HK airport is wonderful - efficient, easy to get to, clean, light, spacious etc.

Everytime I arrive at Heathrow I feel a huge sense of shame and remember when my wife first visited the UK and landed there. She looked around a bit, saw how shabby it is compared to the airports she's been used to in her home country and said 'But, I thought England was a rich country.'

Mortifying.