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The Hoo Peninsular where Londoners usually dream of estuary airports is not some empty wasteland, but a series of thriving villages with one of the few green lungs of the Medway Towns. The area is also the site of much new housing development that would presumably have to be buried under concrete. My favourite part is the village of Cooling whose church has several child graves that were the inspiration for Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Once you have built your airport, where are you going to site the hotels, warehouses, and other associated industries? Not to mention where the thousands of residents you have forcibly evicted will go. This whole madcap scheme has been rejected several times, but politicians from outside the area keep resurrecting it.
The Hoo Peninsular where Londoners usually dream of estuary airports is not some empty wasteland, but a series of thriving villages with one of the few green lungs of the Medway Towns. The area is also the site of much new housing development that would presumably have to be buried under concrete. My favourite part is the village of Cooling whose church has several child graves that were the inspiration for Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Once you have built your airport, where are you going to site the hotels, warehouses, and other associated industries? Not to mention where the thousands of residents you have forcibly evicted will go. This whole madcap scheme has been rejected several times, but politicians from outside the area keep resurrecting it.
Yeah,let's just never build anything,ever...
Whereas other countries just build and get on with it we pontificate and dither and debate until we're hopelessly behind.... Let's get on with this and secure Britain's future as a World-Leading Aviation hub.
On what basis are you going to build an airport in the wrong place apart from prestige and wanting to build things? Most people who would use it live on the the other side of London. Widen the M25? The M20 A2 and M2 are already regularly gridlocked during Operation Stack and the normal morning rush. How are you going to get people to their planes on time? Even if you had the money to expand the local creaking rail network, nobody is going to catch a train from Birmingham or Heathrow to travel to Spain. Where is the money coming from? In case you hadn't noticed we are broke, and that other vain grand project HS2 is already looking shaky. But feel free to dream about estuary airports, monorails, hover trains, and colonies on the moon. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
On what basis are you going to build an airport in the wrong place apart from prestige and wanting to build things? Most people who would use it live on the the other side of London. Widen the M25? The M20 A2 and M2 are already regularly gridlocked during Operation Stack and the normal morning rush. How are you going to get people to their planes on time? Even if you had the money to expand the local creaking rail network, nobody is going to catch a train from Birmingham or Heathrow to travel to Spain. Where is the money coming from? In case you hadn't noticed we are broke, and that other vain grand project HS2 is already looking shaky. But feel free to dream about estuary airports, monorails, hover trains, and colonies on the moon. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
Please show me where I specifically referred to this particular Airport site.... I am generalising.You come up with all sorts of excuses not to get on with Infrastructure projects,and all sorts of rubbish ones,too.
You'll also have to explain to me how the HS2 project,which is a sound investment in our infrastructure for decades to come,can be compared to Monrails and moon bases.
Anyway,back in the real World countries that invest in their infrastructure do very well economically and the Airport option can be an expansion or a completely new one or a mix or whatever.
The point is to get on with it and not listen to every ditherer,Nimby and environmentalist who think they can collectively hold the country to ransom.
Beijing Airport has now passed Heathrow in number of passengers, and is on track to pass Atlanta as the world's largest. It is a thing of beauty.
London, Paris and Amsterdam will always be near the center of the world's land masses.
Indeed,Investment in Infrastructure is an Investment in the country's economic future.
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