Originally Posted by
Bagso
Heathrow?s powerhouse argument for expansion | | The Times & The Sunday Times
Fortunately the rest of the article where Heathrow claims to be "our saviour" is behind a pay wall.....damn, damn, damn !
As a "Northern Taxpayer" I must confess I'm quite anxious nay euphoric that we have to provide them with some monumental amounts of cash, in order to generate the £710m ROI in the first place.
Let's say a minimum of £10bn ? for some nice roads, a tunnel, new railway lines rolling stock and why not a station or two !
"My goodness £710m now let's see "
....if a billion is 1000 million and our subsidy (oops investment) is a minimum of say £10billion, that will equate to taking 14 years to get our ROI back.
"hey hang on a minute "
"Nurse Nurse................"
Heathrow's argument is at odds with what's been going in for at least 20 years and also the airlines plans to expand at places like MAN and BHX.
Arguably heer nonsense, but in any case clearly insufficient justification for such a major public subsidy.
Straw clutching.