All completely mad
Thank you Winniebago, at last somebody has spotted that the Emperor is starkers...
I've stared at the map of Britain and tried to work out how/why you would posiibly want to route every single passenger (who's not from east of the A1) around London to travel to a new airport when there is one there. Already. On the West bit. Where everybody lives...!
Yes the prevailing winds are a bit of a bugger and means Richmond and Barnes get the occasional whistle. But I'm completely stumped at our total inability to grasp this dilemma which hands billions in lost business to Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
How can we, as a nation, be seriously proposing that we can justify cutting swathes across the entire country to build a double hi-speed railway (which is long overdue anyway), but not a short one-mile strip of concrete to alleviate the 20 stacked disaster that is Heathrow.
The irony is that (one of) the arguement (s) preventing the 3rd runway is environmental, yet we'd rather have Heathrow chokka with tons of aviation fuel a day wasted in the holding, circling, taxying, holding nonsense.
Ah, Great Britain. Home of procrastination and inquiries...!
