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I'm a total sucker for infrastructure projects. I don't agree that it is a backward step to be increasing air transit capacity as some people seem to think.
However, choosing Heathrow baffles me. Surely Birmingham would be far better? Also, why just expand one airport?
I expect that when HS2 is running the cost of the fair to Heathrow from the North will be close to what some people are paying for their flights...
Stonehedge
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I always thought Birmingham would have been a better place to expand airport capacity. It's 90mins or less into Euston and I'm sure that could be made quicker even without HS2 and it would improve connectivity for a larger part of the country without increasing travel congestion (road, rail and air) in the south east. Plenty of people travel from the frozen north and less frozen Midlands to Heathrow for flight connections as it is, so it might even help with airport capacity in the south east.
The land would be cheaper too, one assumes.
I guess it partly depends on the benefit of having a huge hub airport with shitloads of connecting flights vs several smaller hubs more spread out.