Its not "Blight" Frank - they just don't like all those aeroplanes over head
What aeroplanes? You can hardly hear them in the areas where the whingers live.
Why do you think Boris held his anti-Heathrow meeting (rally?) at Barnes rather than at a location such as Cranford, near the rwy threshold, where there may actually might be some aircraft noise?
Boris:
Well, the Mayor is still pushing for a Thames Airport, despite all the controversy. Which I have to say is a brave thing for a politician to do in this era of vacuous popularity-politics. Blair would have just gone along with the latest opinion poll - anything an opportunity to give that inane grin and gain a vote or two.
Of course he is still pushing for a Thames Airport. Having wasted a great deal of public money on something which is beyond his jurisdiction both geographically and functionally (airport policy is the remit of central government), he has to keep banging on about it for the time being.
But how serious is he in reality? He couldn't be bothered to appoint an "aviation adviser" who has any aviation experience. That says it all.
In truth, it's classic gesture politics. Chances are that this nonsense will die a death if/when Boris decides to go back into Parliament.
anothertyke, Yes I think that's right. But, since WWII, we have slavishly followed the American way of doing things.
So the 'hands-off let the market decide' along with "Surely, we can get this for less?" and "Surely, we can get more money for this?" has not helped.
But it's not really, is it? The market decided half a century ago that it wanted Heathrow expansion. It's government interference that stops it.
The "
American way of doing things" as far as airports are concerned is
publicly owned airports, usually in local council ownership.
LN-KGL are you suggesting the throughout of LHR/LGW/STN/LTN/LCY et al can be put through one site within travelling distance of London without costing tens of thousands of direct and indirect job losses around each airport and all along the M4 corridor to Bristol?
It can't be done, nor should it be attempted.
Are airports for creating as many jobs as possible in their respective local communities or are airports for passengers that want to travel to or from a destinations as smooth as possible? I think it is the latte
Both.