You might be moaning more next week as the new drop off zone opens Wednesday so we will see if there are any tailbacks off season. As for the amount of money the council has so far borrowed or is committed to borrow the bill is sitting between £440 and £450 million. £225m is for the rail link that is only required for a second terminal as the bus service can cope but the cost of £225m is to get it to the existing terminal only. If planning permission is granted for T2 then new Taxiway Foxtrot and Taxiway Delta will need to be cut and covered for the track and the cut and cover will then have to continue across an unstable waste tip.
The council will be in deep financial sh!t if the government refuses planning permission. They might well be in deep financial sh!t if the government does give it permission. At the end of the day it is the council taxpayers who will suffer in cuts to council services but that information is being withheld that the council rather than LLAL will be funding the interest payments on some of the loans. The loans taken out by LLAL means they will have less dividend money to pay the council. And where did LLAL get their loan money from? Why the council who had to again borrow the money themselves.
Last edited by LTNman; 21st Oct 2019 at 07:41.