Do you not mean Venice? Are the canals of Amsterdam not dug out?
Eh?? Amsterdam is built on sand, just like the Tthames Estruary. If you know anything about proverbs, you will know that sand needs to be stabilised before you build on it. This has worked at Amsterdam for some 500 years (using wood), and so modern methedology will have no problem with Thames alluvial deposits.
No, expanding another London airport will not work, Ernest Lanc's, the problem is lack of hub capacity, that is why it has to be Heathrow.
Not so. You could easilt take Stanstead and give it six runways and a vast new terminal, turning it into the NW European hub.
An enlarged Stanstead would be much better than an enlarged Heathrow, but would it be as good as a Thames airport. Not in my view.
Stanstead would not get rid of the noise problem, and nor would its location be as good for ground transportation. It may be closer to the Midlands, if you build new road and rail links, but its usefullness as a European hub, with rail links to northern Europe, would be severely diminished.
Stanstead is a possibility, but Silver-Boris would be more logical. In addition, Silver-Boris simultaneously solves the Thames Barage and the Thames Crossing problems too. These would still have to be constructed, if one opted for Stanstead as a hub.
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