Green-ing gone, green for Heathrow?

[DaveReidUK]

Step in the right direction but just crazy time scales. 3 years??

Not necessarily.

From yesterday's DfT statement:


"the Commission will provide an interim report to the Government no later than the end of 2013 setting out:

• its assessment of the evidence on the nature, scale and timing of the steps needed to maintain the UK’s global hub status; and
• its recommendation(s) for immediate actions to improve the use of existing runway capacity in the next five years – consistent with credible long term options." [my emphases]

Assuming that "in the next five years" means over the course of that period, rather than doing nothing until 5 years has elapsed, it's not hard to work out what the recommendations are likely to be.

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