Originally Posted by
Prophead
Do you know how many people live in the Thames valley and work in West London? Also the amount of traffic that goes between the M1/M40 and M3/M4? Much of this has nothing to do with the airport
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the area is home to major operations of financial institutions, tech, telecoms, and life sciences businesses. Nothing to do with LHR at all!
Note: I'm not criticising LHR for generating economic activity - in my view that is clearly a good thing. However you can't have it both ways and claim credit for the economic boost on the one hand but disassociate the costs of it (e.g. increased road capacity, environmental damage) on the other. It is a completely unrealistic stance to take.