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16th Jan 2009, 8:48 AM #1
Good News For Tegan - Heathrow 3rd Runway!
So, the Government has said 'Yes!' to a third runway at Heathrow. As I see it, there are pros and cons to this.
Positives:
It will generate around 3,000,000 extra jobs.
BAA will get enormous, enormous profits. They couldn't make more profit if they found traces of lucanol on the site.
Now BAA can sell off Stansted without losing a runway.
Planes won't have to go to French airports on international flights. Yaaa Boo Sucks to be French!
Negatives:
They have to demolish a village. Hopefully populated by 700 Arthur Dents who can lie in front of the bulldozers.
The environment will quite literally be destroyed. Metaphorically.
Anyone living nearby will suffer the even-more-constant unbareable aircraft noise making their lives EVEN MORE of a living hell.
Overall I think that this is a very, very, very bad idea. Sucks. What do you think?Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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16th Jan 2009, 8:51 AM #2Pip Madeley Guest
Maybe they could demolish the site at Stansted and move the population of The Village there?
They could have a little Stansted museum. And a big white sphere called Rover.
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16th Jan 2009, 10:28 AM #3It will generate around 3,000,000 extra jobs.
Si.
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16th Jan 2009, 10:36 AM #4
I think he's rounding up a little.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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16th Jan 2009, 1:59 PM #5
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16th Jan 2009, 3:52 PM #6
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16th Jan 2009, 3:57 PM #7
Actually as far as I've seen compulsory purchases are very favourable to the property owners.
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16th Jan 2009, 10:03 PM #8Captain Tancredi Guest
I think this is as much about maintaining Heathrow's position in the airline industry as anything else- there's a small and select group of European airports including Paris and Amsterdam which set themselves up as hubs for worldwide travel, so you have your transatlantic flight with BA, Air France or KLM and your European connection with the same airline. It's fairly common knowledge around here that if you're flying from Leeds Bradford across the Atlantic it's usually cheaper to go with KLM and change at Amsterdam than with BA via Heathrow. There are also issues with the number of flights passing over central London with the increased risk of accidents and environmental issues.
But the depressing thing is that we've reached the stage economically where pretty much anything can be approved if you say the magic words "it'll create jobs". Making the whole of Britain into a vast shopping mall would create jobs, but it wouldn't make it the right thing to do. Unfortunately the alternatives aren't too promising either- a fistful of technical issues mean that Eurostar can't go much further than it does at the moment, for example.
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