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mark occomore
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 Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject: Third Runway At Heathrow? |
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A third runway has got the green light at Heathrow Airport. The only problem is we will see a whole village of Sipson wiped out with residents who have been there for 42 years been paid off. The £9 Billion runway with an extra terminal and high speed rail link could be ready by 2020.
I don't think we should have a third runway at Heathrow. BAA should think about building another airport somewhere else which won't disrupt peoples lives.
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nod
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I hate going to Heathrow as it involves BA & BAA, who always seem to create choas and loose your luggage  |
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: Third Runway At Heathrow? |
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| mark occomore wrote: | I don't think we should have a third runway at Heathrow. BAA should think about building another airport somewhere else which won't disrupt peoples lives.
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I agree with Boris & Mark. It should be east of London in the estuary like any other normal city.
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nod
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Third Runway At Heathrow? |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | I don't think we should have a third runway at Heathrow. BAA should think about building another airport somewhere else which won't disrupt peoples lives.
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I agree with Boris & Mark. It should be east of London in the estuary like any other normal city. |
sea planes ?  |
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mark occomore
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Come on be sensible  there is plenty of waste land around Ebbsfleet where there is a rail link ( Euro star ). Can't they add extra runway at Stanstead? It's not just about the Runway as Rail-Lines will need to be linked up, and is cross rail got the green light yet? I guess they think some of the residents are in an age where they may not be around and can bulldoze through once they are gone. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Third Runway At Heathrow? |
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| nod wrote: | | sea planes ? |
Not very many of those in this country, what few floatplanes there are only seat about 4 people. Indeed I think there are very few large seaplanes left anywhere in the world. The only flyable one I can think of is the Short Sunderland that Kermit Weeks now has in his museum in (or near) Orlando.
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RockitRon
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:54 am Post subject: Re: Third Runway At Heathrow? |
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| mark occomore wrote: | A third runway has got the green light at Heathrow Airport. The only problem is we will see a whole village of Sipson wiped out with residents who have been there for 42 years been paid off. The £9 Billion runway with an extra terminal and high speed rail link could be ready by 2020.
I don't think we should have a third runway at Heathrow. BAA should think about building another airport somewhere else which won't disrupt peoples lives.
Your thoughts? |
Ironically, Heathrow originally had three runways, shorter, of course, able to accommodate the much smaller piston and turboprop airliners of the day, and until the mid 1960s one of the diagonal paths between the two current runways was still used in certain wind conditions.
The debate about a third airport has been going on for nearly as long as the Heathrow has been open, and the likelihood of using the Thames estuary, as well as the greener parts of Bedfordshire, was looked at, before compromising on expanding the existing Stansted. It got everyone excited about the effects on the environment and climate change, as well as cost, even then.
The residents of Sipson must be blighted enough with all the traffic, air and otherwise, buzzing around them; provided that they get fair value for their properties I wouldn't have thought that they would mind having to move. 700 homes against the creation of "hundreds" of jobs.
This all assumes that the current economic hiatus is a mere blip and that the volume of air traffic is going to increase, and that there is room in the sky for it; it's forty years since I lived down there but, with a Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8 screaming overhead every two minutes, close enough to be able to read the registration letters, it seemed busy enough even then.
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