Two disastrous transport projects
This week the Labour government announced that it supported the plan to expand Heathrow airport with a third runway as well as to build the East Thames crossing, an additional road tunnel (or two)...
Category: Heathrow threat
Heathrow: the sweetener which isn’t
Gordon Brown today gave the go-ahead for the third runway at Heathrow airport, the international airport in the western suburbs of London. I posted what Simon Jenkins wrote about this disaster yesterday, and here...
Nothing overwhelming except the damage
Simon Jenkins: A runway for jobs? It’s time aviation’s bluff was called (The Guardian) An excellent opinion piece on the stream of lies and broken promises which have led to the proposal for the...