"tim....." <
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> "Bill" wrote in message
> news:1jur38tp112uiudp7...@4ax.com...
>
> Any one got any ideas or alternatives to either a third Heathrow
> runway (Gawd help us all, a bigger and even less efficient Heathrow)
> or 'Boris Island' in the Thames Estuary, which would cost as much as
> our nuclear deterrent replacement...
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> I think that we should build a second runway at Gatwick.
>
> It will affect a tiny fraction of the people that the extra runway at LHR
> will affect and already has better rail connections and serves a more
> populous non London catchment than STN.
>
> I agree with Simon Jenkins from what someone posted on a different group
> this morning:
>
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/28/heathrow-third-runway-big-willy-politics
>
> That is, we do not need extra runways to create a bigger hub. If the aim
> of the extra runway is to create growth then that growth is not helped one
> tiny little bit by people in-lining airside. if (however) London business
> does need more runway capacity for origination and terminating passengers
> that does not need to be at LHR and LGW is just as good IMHO
>
But a second runway at Gatwick is not possible until 2019 at the earliest:
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