| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Consultation on expansion at Heathrow closed on December 19 | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 02/01/18 14:10:00 |
| Might add that Paris CDG , Schiphol and many other European airpots and most key airports around the world have replaced many earlier locations to abate issues of noise, various types of pollution, access, and above all take off and landing approaches over urban areas. Heathrow will end up being one of the last international airports with approaches over a major urban sprawl and those the only way of dealing with it's fall out is to inflict restrictions upon the populous affected by it which is a huge amount of people. Fact is Heathrow is now an outmoded relic of the past and the true benefits of new technology aircraft and infrastructure systems will improve but not really benefit in the way they do for CDG or AMS. The same reductions in noise and pollution will benefit them by a far higher percentage simply because of the wisdom of their location and the forward thinking in their infrastructure. You could plate Heathrow with Gold and make it a stunning first class venue, but it won't change is very basic flaws. The Runways Point the wrong way. And the volume of movements way too high to ever reduce the fall out. To affect not just a few thousand, but millions is quite illogical and, I suspect that if the original founders of London Airport had seen the volume of growth and mass use of air travel, they would have acted accordingly and with Gatwick would have become the principle Airport or Foulness/ Maplin would have been constructed. Rather like the freedom and prosperity that the small affordable private car brought to millions, the powers that be were in denial that the working class masses should be allowed to have such movement. It was supposed to be for the upper echelons. Same attitude existed for Air Travel. So we end up with a road network intend for a much smaller section of the population and suffer the consequences, and similarly the same mindset applies the same to airports. And then on top of that we have an imbalanced population becoming over concentrated in one corner of the UK. Not much has been learned from the last 60 years. |