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Old July 22nd 10, 11:12 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default HS2 via Heathrow gets thumbs down...

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Neil Williams wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:25:48 +0100, Graeme
wrote:

Which, within the parameters of still operating the airport, is what they
are doing.


This isn't likely to be enough to really sort it out, though.


Why?


I fail to understand the obsession with the UK's nastiest airport.


I fail to understand the obsession with denigrating Heathrow on this
group, I assume it is because it is in the south.


No, it's because it's a very poor airport by most criteria I can think
of.


Such as? The worst thing about it is it's poor access by public transport
for which I blame Charles Richard Fairey and that ruddy grocer's daughter
with her Great Car EconomyŤ.

(I live in the south, so I don't quite see why I would denigrate it on that
basis).


Because it is fashionable on this group to do so.

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