Am I in a parallel universe?

[gatepost]

I know its been done to death, but as part of my recuperation, I have been getting up a bit later, so heard the CEO of Heathrow this am, 79,000000 passengers last year, talking about getting the third runway ''right'' as of great benefit to the country, so the Welsh are to plant trees, RT members hand over 10% of land, and the PO have been shooting the messenger with Gov support, instead of sorting the IT problem, it all seems sort of surreal.

 

[bluebell]

Gatepost, in my opinion biggest mistake we made, re, third london airport, was not build it on maplin sands in the thames estary, yes, no wheres ideal/perfect, but my view is if that was the place, noise would be mitigated, land loss also, safety would also be another important factor? just my view?

 

[DrWazzock]

If they’d any honesty at all it wouldn’t be built at all. The climate change agenda juxtaposed with the addiction to economic growth has deranged government.

 

[Welderloon]

@gatepost glad you are on the mend, unfortunately we are not in a parallel universe - best option................let it all wash over you, becoming incandescent with rage due to the arrogance, ineptitude & blatant disregard of others will only put you in an early grave.

Just imagine what it will be like in another 20 years...........

 

[Lazy Sod]

The problem with Maplin sands was the serious risk of bird strikes.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I know its been done to death, but as part of my recuperation, I have been getting up a bit later, so heard the CEO of Heathrow this am, 79,000000 passengers last year, talking about getting the third runway ''right'' as of great benefit to the country, so the Welsh are to plant trees, RT members hand over 10% of land, and the PO have been shooting the messenger with Gov support, instead of sorting the IT problem, it all seems sort of surreal.

Cognitive dissonance. If there was a genuine worry about a climate crisis a whole lot of things would have been stopped, and full bore in nuclear

 

[Barleymow]

The problem with Maplin sands was the serious risk of bird strikes.

Should have used bentwaters ,had a runway long enough for space shuttle to land

 

[deleted user 837354]

There must be a dozen former RAF or otherwise under-utilised airports in the UK, why not build a train line and fly folk out of there? Why does everything have to be London-centric?

 

[Daddy Pig]

Dont panic, Bristol Airport are replacing the busses that shuttle between the car parks and the terminal with electric ones that will run on 100% renewable electricity, this combined with Jet 2 offsetting some of their carbon emissions means we can all fly more without a guilty conscience.

 

[Magnus Oyke]

The problem with Maplin sands was the serious risk of bird strikes.

and it is difficult to get to

 

[David1968]

There must be a dozen former RAF or otherwise under-utilised airports in the UK, why not build a train line and fly folk out of there? Why does everything have to be London-centric?

Genius

What with this Governments record for building new rail links in a economic and efficient manner...

 

[Gong Farmer]

Dont panic, Bristol Airport are replacing the busses that shuttle between the car parks and the terminal with electric ones that will run on 100% renewable electricity, this combined with Jet 2 offsetting some of their carbon emissions means we can all fly more without a guilty conscience.

Even if it means waiting two hours for the bus to finish charging.

 

[Gong Farmer]

I know its been done to death, but as part of my recuperation, I have been getting up a bit later, so heard the CEO of Heathrow this am, 79,000000 passengers last year, talking about getting the third runway ''right'' as of great benefit to the country, so the Welsh are to plant trees, RT members hand over 10% of land, and the PO have been shooting the messenger with Gov support, instead of sorting the IT problem, it all seems sort of surreal.

In a parallel universe, there is unlikely to be a TFF, or even an internet, so don't worry.

 

[David.]

There must be a dozen former RAF or otherwise under-utilised airports in the UK, why not build a train line and fly folk out of there? Why does everything have to be London-centric?

USAF Upper Heyford had everything.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Dont panic, Bristol Airport are replacing the busses that shuttle between the car parks and the terminal with electric ones that will run on 100% renewable electricity, this combined with Jet 2 offsetting some of their carbon emissions means we can all fly more without a guilty conscience.

Apparently they pay for every ton of carbon they emit when they fly. Not sure how and not sure if that includes take off and landing?

 

[vantage]

There must be a dozen former RAF or otherwise under-utilised airports in the UK, why not build a train line and fly folk out of there? Why does everything have to be London-centric?

What’s wrong with Birmingham airport, I think there’s a rail line called HS2 being built to join it to London.
Hang on a minute, what happened to “levelling up”, why would you need to go to London? What’s wrong with Manchester or Leeds?
Nothing! But you’d have to fly there as those legs of HS2 got cancelled.
Just a thought, who decided to start building from the HS2 from the South rather than the North? If it had started from the North it would have been finished by now!

 

[Netherfield]

Just travel up to Doncaster, make it worthwhile re-opening, never made a profit since it opened. Doncaster council seem willing to risk £138m helping it along.

Hang on though HS2 isn't coming North any longer.

 

[robs1]

There must be a dozen former RAF or otherwise under-utilised airports in the UK, why not build a train line and fly folk out of there? Why does everything have to be London-centric?

There was one in Wiltshire called lyneham, it was the old Hercules base, very long runway, pipeline from a refinery for fuel, right by the M4 motorway and the link road to the M5 past Swindon to Gloucester and within a couple of miles of the Bristol to paddington mainline. It was absolutely perfect

 

[deleted user 837354]

There was one in Wiltshire called lyneham, it was the old Hercules base, very long runway, pipeline from a refinery for fuel, right by the M4 motorway and the link road to the M5 past Swindon to Gloucester and within a couple of miles of the Bristol to paddington mainline. It was absolutely perfect

That would be perfect and bring plenty of economic benefit to the region, too.

 

[robs1]

That would be perfect and bring plenty of economic benefit to the region, too.

It's so obvious the only people that can't see it are the lunatics that are in charge