Tuesday 25 October 2016

Heathrow... Third Runway... Never gonna hap... Ahh... It is...

Well just heard on the news about the, initial, go ahead for the third Heathrow runway...

There has been no doubt in my mind that a third runway would be built... They have consistently lied to the local people, and will continue to do so...

Maybe the next one will be at Gatwick... in the interest of public concern you understand...

Terminal five... local promise... we will built the terminal but never a third runway... even the three wise monkeys have gone home in disgust on this one...

One problem, though, is that no one wants anything built on their doorstep...

Take the area around the old Bentwaters airbase... Everyone and their relative did not want an airport there... But I wonder how many of those same people travel to another airport for their holidays with barely a "poor locals" thought...

Bentwates had a very long runway as it was a, not so secret, emergency landing strip for the space shuttle... So why did the end of the runway get dug up?... Do a web search on this for the given reason then do another search on what was happening at the time... and make your own mind up...

Many many years ago there was a plan to build an access road from the A12 to Bentwaters with the aim of reducing the traffic through the local villages... The plans showed, pretty much, a straight line between the two...

But as the A12 (North of Ipswich... don't get me started on the A12 south "car park") is such a lovely wide and fast "no queue's" road... Sorry had a moment of rose coloured glasses there... But as the A12 is such a narrow winding "lets spend £1 on it when it needs £1,000,000" traffic jam that effectively shuts whenever there is an accident...

Be nice if that now Norwich is building a northern bypass that Ipswich are shamed into building one too...

So the powers to be want to keep anything money making near to its greedy heart and give more evidence to my take on devolution, that is....

As well as selling off the country the government wants to make itself immune to criticism by giving some of the governments powers to local areas so it can say... "not my fault - your local should have done X"... and walk away saying "suckers"...

Maybe the reason that Suffolk (OK ok... and Norfolk) is left out is that a lot of millionaires live here, for the quiet life...

Still watching the program and just heard someone say...  "Site preferred as secures the benefits for whole of the UK"  How the hell does having an extra runway in London secure, real, benefits for the whole of the UK... 

Oh I get it... All the petrol to drive there... all the coach fares... train fares... pittance for the local area but massive profits for London, well greedy shareholders and massive non tax paying companies...

Shhhh... no one mention pollution, air or otherwise... It will be less in the future.... When the fuel runs out... Makes you wonder if there will ever be an electric jumbo, flying through a lightning storm to recharge?...

And then comes the comment of...

"More cost effective to build here as the infrastructure is already there"... But... But... But... Terminal five was "only" built on the promise that runway three would NOT be...

Nothing more to say really... is there?...

Well there was the comment of "Better connectivity to the whole of the country".... No.... Only more congestion... for which you will probable roll out charges for...

Me feels another Hinckley point coming on... lets pick the worst choice... and make a plan B... just like Brexit...

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