Third runway at Heathrow!

@Sheal I am not saying it's nice for those people.
Yes, they are attached to their homes. Yes, it's not nice.
But the bigger picture is that a 3rd runway will benefit London, England and the entire UK.
The entire country is being held to ransom by a handfull of people

@Charlie996,
greedy bureaucrat idiots
So is this anyone who will gain some sort of benefit from a 3rd runway?
From the massive contractors emplying thousands of people to small indvidual run businesses?

@fat controller,
I agree 100%

 

By the time they build a third runway at Heathrow, if approved, they will look back and wonder why they didn't build one at Gatwick as well, not instead of because we will have run out of runway space again by then, vicious circle.

 

The way I see it is you cant just keep cramming capacity into Heathrow, or Gatwick for that matter. The existing M25 is a total disaster, and they can take away as much hard shoulder, add as many lanes as they like and you still get gridlock when the cops shut it for a lorry fire.
Or other similar "minor" problems.

The best way in my view is to build the connections first, that way a Stansted or even Manston thing could work, make it faster to central London than the existing jam from Heathrow, and the Airlines might see the light.

I should add that Boris Island would get my vote, .......just as long as they stuck him there and didn't give him a boat.

 

`Well I dont think the M25 takes you anywhere near central London, its always going to be that bit on the inside that is the bugbear.
As to rail links, I've travelled up the M20 doing a ton, Ssshhh, and when that Eurostar goes past you think you have stopped.
So it can be done, you just need the investment.

 

Apparently they owe us one billion.

 

Good old British pounds, I think.

You can poke all that toy money where the sun dont shine.

That's what got them into this mess in the first place.

 

Really? It'll just cause even more chaos than it does now!

They'll walk all over the residents in that area to get it! It proves that the powers that be don't give a toss about messing up peoples lives. I wonder what would happen if the properties in question were owned by those people making the decisions?

 

Doesn't the Eurostar go into central London?
Or at least planned to do so at some point?

As for open country, yes it carved up Kent, but nobody cared much.
It also blighted a lot of houses along the route for a very long time before they made the decision on the exact route.

Its there now, but cant think it was worthwhile
unless it gets extended.

Tunnels cost money, but they can do it for cross rail.

 

Then the properties will be worth more