Politics

[Dimron]

2 hours ago, Cheese said:

Yeah, when all they needed was a couple of hangars and some lights. The runway isn't the time consuming bit. It's the surrounding infrastructure that goes with being one of the busiest airports on the planet.

Going to have to tunnel the M25!!!

Heathrow is in the wrong place but we keep making do

[Cheese]

14 minutes ago, Dimron said:

Going to have to tunnel the M25!!!

Heathrow is in the wrong place but we keep making do

Most things in Britain are in the wrong place. But we're an old island country that developed quickly during the Industrial Revolution. Unless we want to start knocking everything down and starting again, we don't have much choice. It's hard enough to implement a project that will take a few years to implement, never mind a few decades.

Edited February 3, 2025 by Cheese

[Sweep]

1 hour ago, Traf said:

Named after two former mayors of Atlanta

really?

 

What where they called?

[Sweep]

1 hour ago, Dimron said:

Going to have to tunnel the M25!!!

Heathrow is in the wrong place but we keep making do

Then we're definitely going over budget and delivering at least 1 decade later than we promise

[Dimron]

3 hours ago, Cheese said:

Most things in Britain are in the wrong place. But we're an old island country that developed quickly during the Industrial Revolution. Unless we want to start knocking everything down and starting again, we don't have much choice. It's hard enough to implement a project that will take a few years to implement, never mind a few decades.

We have the habit of making do... back in the 80s I did a refurb job at Longbridge, they were putting a production line in for a new model. I think it was the Maestro... you should have seen the shit hole that we had to convert, no wonder they had quality problems. Not far a way in Derby Toyota were building a completely new factory for their new models...

Then there was Concorde... we built and tested ours from an ex-RAF hangar at Filton with some portacabins at the rear, what did the French do? They invested in a complete new factory and airfield which became the multi-billion Airbus Industries. We first flew our V Bombers and VC10 from a grass runway!

Some Americans I worked with years ago cheekily referred to us as "nigger riggers" 😁

Build a new airport in the Thames Estuary just like the one in Hong Kong, cheaper and quicker in the long run and it will be on the right side of London for European and Asian flights

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

I'm not sure this chap will remain in post for long

 

[bolty58]

10 hours ago, frank_spencer said:

Boris himself said in 2015 he'd lie in front of the bulldozers to stop the Heathrow expansion

I'll mark you down as the squawky little fucker which sits on Casino the Hutts lap.

[bolty58]

4 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I'm not sure this chap will remain in post for long

 

Did anyone truly expect anything else?

[Traf]

10 hours ago, Dimron said:

I recall back in the 70s talking about an airport "Maplin Sands".

I think Boris J resurrected the idea for a while

Essex Coast? 
Full of quicksand, I heard.

[jayjayoghani]

Boris Island wasn't it? 

[bolty58]

Well, well.

https://www.ft.com/content/2a22b915-1a19-48a0-a533-2b8cf1ded1ad

[Tonge moor green jacket]

6 hours ago, bolty58 said:

Did anyone truly expect anything else?

At least he seems to have a bit of energy about him: his voice coach clearly worked. 

[Dimron]

8 hours ago, Traf said:

Essex Coast? 
Full of quicksand, I heard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Estuary_Airport

[BobyBrno]

When did ‘2 Tier Keir’ become ‘Tier 4 Keir’? 🤷‍♂️

[mickbrown]

39 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

When did ‘2 Tier Keir’ become ‘Tier 4 Keir’? 🤷‍♂️

4 and a half years. It'll fly by

[Farrelli]

11 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

4 and a half years. It'll fly by

Hopefully with another five to follow. 

[Traf]

3 hours ago, Dimron said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Estuary_Airport

They might as well just pump some more money into 'London' Southend Airport.

[Dimron]

7 minutes ago, Traf said:

They might as well just pump some more money into 'London' Southend Airport.

Agreed to an extent, Eddie Stobart own it these days and they have a nice new terminal, however it is in a built up area.... we are talking of a new major hub with at least 4 nice long runways with open approaches over water straight in from Europe and Asia. Position it of the south side of the estuary and you already have a high speed train corridor into London.

[Casino]

we could develop east mids, manchester or leeds and use the new hi speed rail link

[Dimron]

EMA already is a major freight hub... DHL and Amazon have a big set up there with 24 hour ops.

There is room to build an extra runway and expand the passenger traffic... but it isn't London is it?

Not certain how much space there is at Leeds... I know it's on the top of a hill

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

This just seems insane

 

[bolty58]

7 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

This just seems insane

 

Insane is the word.

[BobyBrno]

£18 billion! 
Rachel “Shit, I thought you said million”

 

Short term pain, long term bankrupt.

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

6 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

£18 billion! 
Rachel “Shit, I thought you said million”

 

Short term pain, long term bankrupt.

 

Chuck in the increased likelihood of direct US sanctions as a result.

[Dimron]

14 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

£18 billion! 
Rachel “Shit, I thought you said million”

 

Short term pain, long term bankrupt.

 

That's okay boss, I've cancelled ten of the new hospitals to cover it

Edited February 5, 2025 by Dimron