Originally Posted by
virginblue
Now that would be fun- buy and bulldoze the airport
This was actually a lunatic suggestion from London mayor Ken Livingstone a couple of weeks ago. His rationale was that with the construction of Crossrail (one of his "pet projects", and which all the LCY employees who live close to the airport will be paying handsomely for through their Council Tax bills) then you will be able to get to Heathrow "in a flash", and that LCY will no longer be necessary.
He's obviously forgotten already his speech when he opened the DLR extension to LCY a few months ago and said the new connection was a major advantage for London ......