Heathrow Airport Expansion 'approved'

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37760187

Well, well, well !

Boris once said that he would chain himself to the bulldozers, if this was to happen....where can I get tickets for this event please ?

[hereIam]

So will it destroy villages and wildlife areas ?

[mushroom25]

//Unless the M25 is also reviewed in that area,//

which means that, in common with many other heavily used stretches of motorway, there will be years and years of roadworks while the highways authority eliminate the hard shoulder and erect millions of extra overhead gantries.

[mikey4444]

Nobody has mentioned the huge boost for jobs, if and when this expansion starts ! 10,000's of new jobs, for years, and that is just in the construction.

[hereIam]

If as I suspect it will destroy whole villages and wildlife areas, then I am opposed to it, as I am sure you would be mikey if you lived in said village.

[237SJ]

This was always going to be the result

[jno]

mikey, I was reading a protest by a local the other day. He'd been there since the 1980s.

When he moved there, there were 250,000 flights a day. Now there are 750,000. You might expect a few more flights; but three times as many?

[mikey4444]

jno....but that is why we need a 3rd runway in the London area.

It was always gong to be Heathrow. Twas ever thus !

Gatwick, Luton and Stanstead are OK for package flights to the Med, but hopeless at being a "Hub" Airport.

What if your I/C flight from somewhere, comes into the Heathrow, and your next onward leg is from Gatwick ?

Who wants to spend 2 hours on a bloody bus, goings around the M25 !

If air-traffic is going to expand as it is predicted to do so, then extra runway capability is needed in the south-east.

[EDDIE51]

There will be 800 houses demolished to make way for it.
I am sorry for those who live in them. They will now be unsaleable. I know there will be compensation paid but with objections and reviews this could hang on for years yet . In the meantime they have an unsaleable property. I am sure the value of the affected houses will plummet while all this is going on. When eventually they are compulsorily purchased for demolition the compensation will not be enough to buy a comparable property.
There was one man on TV today who only bought the house after Mrs T May assured us that there would be NO THIRD RUNWAY EVER !

[EDDIE51]

The new runway goes right over the top of the M25 By the way. There will be a bridge to carry the runway over the M25! The Prospect of a plane going off the runway and crashing on to the M25 in the middle of rush hour looms !!!

[mikey4444]

More fool him then Eddie....to believe a politician !

[EDDIE51]

Here is the quote
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-heathrow-third-runway-decision-deleted-post-against-expansion-a7379251.html
It has now been deleated from her Facebook page !!
Her own constituency is near Heathrow, she previously said it would harm her constituents . But that was when Labour proposed the 3rd runway!

[mikey4444]

Eddie....I posted this earlier today....this lady, unlike the last lady PM, IS for turning apparently !

[EDDIE51]

They are all for the U turn when it suits them !!

[New Judge]

The scandal with this is not that it has finally been decided (though I'll believe it will be built when the builders move in). The people in the affected area have been blighted for decades and will continue to be so for probably at least two more.

No wildlife habitats will be destroyed, hereIam. There is little wildlife in Harmondsworth (the main area affected). To describe it as a "village" is a little disengenuous. It is a housing area, very close to the airport, with a not very pleasant pub. "Midsomer" it ain't! But of course any loss of homes is regrettable and I'd hate mine to come under threat. That's why its scandalous that this hs dragged on for so long. The people of the area should have been able to move on long ago.

The UK has missed the boat as far as airport capacity is concerned. Forty years of prevarication has seen Heathrow and Gatwick fill to capacity and new "hub" traffic is increasingly moving to the continent. Businesses have to press on and as I have constantly remarked, they thrive despite politicians not because of them. As has been adequately demonstrated here, if they waited for the politicians to finish fannying about, nothing would ever get done. By the time the new runway opens (if it ever does) operators will have made other arrangements.

Most airports that serve big cities have runways very close to main roads and railways, Eddie. Many of them have approaches over main roads (Heathrow and Gatwick being no exception). The main risk is aircraft landing short of the runway or over running it either on landing or take off. They rarely run off the side of the runway so, if anything, the new runway passing over the M25 in a tunnel probably presents less of a risk.

[mikey4444]

There are other reason why Gatwick was out of the question. For instance, there is no Tube access, or Heathrow Express.

Its a relatively cheap taxi ride out of Town, something that could never be said of Gatwick, or the other two.And there is no scrabble for more slots for Majorca, etc.

Lets face it, it was always going to be Heathrow.

[Khandro]

Do people living outside of the London Bubble, i.e. the vast majority - those who have to travel long distances to fly out from one of the London airports - really care where another runway is?

[mikey4444]

I think that they might prefer Heathrow, because of its good transport links K !

[naomi24]

Khandro, UK residents aren’t the sole consideration. It’s essential that business has quick and easy access to international airports.

[bhg481]

Eddie - one of Schiphol's runways crosses the Dutch A4 motorway near Amsterdam, so it's not a new concept. We've seen aircraft taxiing over the motorway as we've driven along it.

[mikey4444]

I recall attending a conference at a hotel close to Manchester Airport, a few years back, and I am sure that part of the runway goes over a big main road...do I remember that correctly ?