Skippy:
Strata what airlines do you see using this facility and you agree we need to close LHR and force them to move? All of them? You can't expect the new facility to compete with LHR surely?
Yes, of course. This is one time when a governernment has to take the lead and make a command decision.
LHR has to be closed in order to make Silver-Boris a success, and in order to free up land in the west for a new regeneration project - for housing and a new high tech industrial estate. This is the Thames corridor, if anywhere can become the new silicon valley (with all the wealth and education present in that area) it is the LHR site.
In fact, you could say that LHR is a complete waste of space that is holding back the west of London from becoming the the most advanced area in Britain. Don't we have a duty to release that potential, and allow the Thames coridor to spread its wings and achieve its full potential?
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