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Old 20th Oct 2018, 23:10
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by canberra97
Regarding my ''better eyesight'' even though I wear contact lenses and glasses if your using your phone or iPad it's not an issue as you can enlarge the graphics enough to clearly see what's proposed.
Well, yes. Or rather, in this case, no.

The text of the document makes it clear that a significant part of the parallel taxiway (J) will have to be moved further north to provided the required clearance. Whether you class that as a "new" taxiway or a "relocated" one is just semantics.

But, having taken your advice and zoomed in on the graphic, it's pretty clear that Gatwick haven't bothered to Photoshop the new line of the taxiway (or the widened standby runway, come to that) onto the Google Earth view.

So if your statement that

Looking closely at the Master Plan and the diagrams it doesn't appear to show any new parallel taxiway being planned
is based on the graphic, it's clearly at odds with Page 91 of the Master Plan which explicitly states

The existing 'Juliet' taxiway located to the north of, and parallel to, the standby runway would be moved further to the north.
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