Heathrow Plans (Merged)
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Who's the whinger now?
There have been plenty of skyscrapers planned for the City of London. Most of them are now not being built because of the deregulated banking-driven recession, not environmentalists' protests.
I would have said that claiming countries have been made great by airports is "clutching at straws" - countries are made great by having something to sell in the first place.
And it seems that even though Wren's plans for a regularised grid of streets in London didn't come to pass, our city has gone from strength to strength and people continue to flock here from all over the world. Unlike most people on this site the majority of people who visit this country do not spend most of their time hanging round in airports, so even if Heathrow is not that wonderful a hub it doesn't matter. And unlike HK, London is not obscured beneath a vast brown smog.
There have been plenty of skyscrapers planned for the City of London. Most of them are now not being built because of the deregulated banking-driven recession, not environmentalists' protests.
I would have said that claiming countries have been made great by airports is "clutching at straws" - countries are made great by having something to sell in the first place.
And it seems that even though Wren's plans for a regularised grid of streets in London didn't come to pass, our city has gone from strength to strength and people continue to flock here from all over the world. Unlike most people on this site the majority of people who visit this country do not spend most of their time hanging round in airports, so even if Heathrow is not that wonderful a hub it doesn't matter. And unlike HK, London is not obscured beneath a vast brown smog.
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Why do people still think that moving Heathrow to a new airport in the Thames estuary is viable?
Who will fill the thousands of jobs that will be created and what are the people who currently do them at Heathrow supposed to do? Are we to just relocate them all to Essex?
What about the many business in the area that support the airport? They all move as well? What then happens to the huge area around Heathrow? Doing this would devastate a large chunk of the country and im sure the people of Essex/Suffolk/Kent would not be too pleased with the mass migration either.
Anyone who thinks this could be done needs to drive round the areas within 10 miles of heathrow so they can see just how many businesses rely on the place.
Also all this talk of Heathrow being run down and too busy, well by the time the new runway would be built Heathrow will be a different place. T2 etc will be gone and replaced with a new terminal. There will be underground transfer systems for baggage and rapid transfer systems for people between terminals. Why do people always mention the oldest terminal that is due for demolition when talking about Heathrow? Why not talk about T5 which is a great terminal and something we should be proud of.
Oh im sorry i forgot, we can only talk about the first couple of weeks when there were teething troubles with the systems. Why is it that people in this country love to run down everything we acheive? There will be people replying to this saying 'yes but my uncles friends neighbour flew from T5 and their coffee was white when they ordered black'. Things do go wrong with any business, building or system but why do we only focus on those negatives in this country.
Heathrow will be a different airport by the time construction goes ahead on the third runway. The new runway plans will include another great terminal and fast links for both baggage and pax between them.
Lets not have any more talk about the old infrastructure not being able to cope with the new runway as we are comparing two different airports.
Heathrow will expand and as long as the government invest properly in transport links to and from it (which they appear to be doing with Crossrail, Airlink etc.) then it will be a great airport.
There will still however be many, many people just waiting for something to go wrong.
Who will fill the thousands of jobs that will be created and what are the people who currently do them at Heathrow supposed to do? Are we to just relocate them all to Essex?
What about the many business in the area that support the airport? They all move as well? What then happens to the huge area around Heathrow? Doing this would devastate a large chunk of the country and im sure the people of Essex/Suffolk/Kent would not be too pleased with the mass migration either.
Anyone who thinks this could be done needs to drive round the areas within 10 miles of heathrow so they can see just how many businesses rely on the place.
Also all this talk of Heathrow being run down and too busy, well by the time the new runway would be built Heathrow will be a different place. T2 etc will be gone and replaced with a new terminal. There will be underground transfer systems for baggage and rapid transfer systems for people between terminals. Why do people always mention the oldest terminal that is due for demolition when talking about Heathrow? Why not talk about T5 which is a great terminal and something we should be proud of.
Oh im sorry i forgot, we can only talk about the first couple of weeks when there were teething troubles with the systems. Why is it that people in this country love to run down everything we acheive? There will be people replying to this saying 'yes but my uncles friends neighbour flew from T5 and their coffee was white when they ordered black'. Things do go wrong with any business, building or system but why do we only focus on those negatives in this country.
Heathrow will be a different airport by the time construction goes ahead on the third runway. The new runway plans will include another great terminal and fast links for both baggage and pax between them.
Lets not have any more talk about the old infrastructure not being able to cope with the new runway as we are comparing two different airports.
Heathrow will expand and as long as the government invest properly in transport links to and from it (which they appear to be doing with Crossrail, Airlink etc.) then it will be a great airport.
There will still however be many, many people just waiting for something to go wrong.
