HEATHROW --- 3rd runway is going to happen

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44357580

I lived in Harmondsworth for several years, my brother went to school there, my dad died in his house there & we had his funeral reception in the Five Bells.

Nice village

MPs still need to vote on it.
Chris Grayling should be thinking more about the utter shambles happening on the rail network.

I imagine he’s relishing the diversion

It’s not sustainable.

It will cost the taxpayers billions in infrastructure and consequences from the air and noise pollution for some very questionable benefits.

That’s always been true though.

And yet here we are.

We’re here because it’s all the government, and that’s not just this Tory government, 3rd runways has been rumbling since the days of Blair, only cares about big business.

Of course it is.

They’ve driven it this far, they’ll go on driving it.

Placemarking.

Nearly every news report I've heard about this today has talked about air quality, noise pollution, traffic, etc and not the huge elephant in the room which is climate change. Not that those issues aren't important, but how on earth is the UK going to meet carbon targets if this goes ahead? Am I missing something here? Is air travel becoming more sustainable? Or is everyone burying their heads in the sand about climate disaster?

I live in the flightpath (Richmond). And I'm in support of it. I'll get my tin hat on...

The economic slowdown caused by Brexit (and probable civil unrest) will kill the project.

Damn. There go my runs on Stanwell & Harmondsworth moors.

Unless the UK constitution has changed recently (and if it had, who'd have noticed) doesn't this mean that Boris "lie in front of the bulldozers" Johnson has had a Damascene conversion ?

They're talking about allowing Boris to be out of the country when the vote is cast. Sounds like a good procedure to me - they should apply this principle to all the votes Boris is involved in!

Would be furious if public money is being used given that HAL (Heathrow Airport Ltd) is not just private but a foreign company part-owned by Qatar who put misogynist in chief Mohamed "women can run a big scary airline" Al Baker on the board.

I condemn today’s Government announcement to push ahead with approving a third Runway at Heathrow. I cannot support a scheme that will not only bring misery to my constituents not already overflown on the existing approach paths, but could well mean higher ticket costs for passengers, or yet more taxpayer subsidy into Heathrow.
A third runway at Heathrow will bring yet more noise and traffic congestion to West London with no net economic benefit to the commercial interests of the UK. The Government says the scheme will be privately financed, yet neither the airport nor the airlines will fund the essential public transport infrastructure nor the noise mitigation measures that are needed to make it operational feasible. Without permanent subsidy for regions beyond the South East, an expanded Heathrow will mean reduced connectivity, and fewer international links.
The Government have ignored the forensic work of the Commons Transport Committee which conditioned their support for expansion on guarantees of adequate noise protection and public transport access, on protection for regional airports and no increase in flight slot charges. More and more MPs from around the country are now saying they cannot support this white elephant which we don’t want in West London.
The Government’s announcement today will be followed by a vote in the Commons on a third runway sometime in the next few weeks.

This is Ruth Cadbury MP's statement.

A third runway is a noise mitigation solution. Heathrow will be able to process aircraft faster. Less time flying around in the stack over London. Fewer diversions, less out of hours flying.

Utter Nonsense. .

The stackes are higher and the noise is negligible compared to the landing approach.

Heathrow will be able to process aircraft faster.

Why not have London Oxford, process planes faster and a decent rail link ?

So processing airplanes faster will bring a reduction in noise?

Pull the other one, NATS.

Good .

The third runway is already 20 years overdue, so the government need to stop procrastinating and get on with it.

LHR is one of the UK’s main links with the global economy. It is a prime national asset which has suffered from decades of under-investment. Ideally, of course, we wouldn’t have built the UK’s main hub in the suburbs of west London in the first place, but seeing as the British government is never going to have the vision to invest in a proper Dubai style multi-runway hub airport in the Thames estuary, we’re stuck with LHR, so we need to make the best of it.

They are apparently going to put M25 through a tunnel under 3rd runway!

Well, that will be fun!!!!

We are not stuck with it, we are stuck with narrow minded government who can’t see that sticking plasters on Heathrow and ruining the whole of West London is another temporary solution.

The only reason Heathrow is attractive is because there aren’t any high speed links to the other airports.

A hub airport actually loses money for the local authorities.

We will need to import workers to pay to build capacity for the foreign shareholders by transporting transit passengers while investment billions of taxpayers money and killing people with air and noise pollution.

I see no benefits on this.

LHR is one of the UK’s main links with the global economy.

Well, probably won't be needing that for a few years. Brexit has it's advantages I guess ...