Railtrack was a catastrophe and the banks crisis threw the whole economy into crisis, Airport strategy is most certainly not a national crisis where we need to throw what little money we have left at something. One thing about a lot of public airports in the US, I am thinking of Newark in particular, is they are quite poor by global standards. You really think the public sector can run airports better than the private sector?
The measures you are randomly throwing out there are emergency last ditch measures and not appropriate in this case. Read the thread(!)
I am not saying I favour state-owned airports, I was suggesting how a Thames Hub Airport should be built IF expansion of LHR is not allowed and remains the case