On 2011\02\05 16:05, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , Recliner
writes

Friends of the Earth said it strongly supported the project and if new
transport methods were needed, the scheme "was exactly the sort of
initiative TfL should be considering".

The scheme's docking stations were not in the airport's safety zone, it
said, but a TfL transport assessment "clearly shows the cable car
passing through the passenger safety zone".

It passes over the last few square metres of the proposed enlarged zone,
not the current passenger safety zone. Planes are usually at around 2000
feet at this point, because of the steep flight paths required at LCY. I
believe the cable car will be at about 200 feet, so there's good clearance.

I don't really know what the risks are, but airport PSZs are defined by
the CAA as areas "to control the number of people *on the ground* at
risk in the unlikely event of an aircraft accident on take-off or landing".

Thanks, I didn't know that. So it's an area where you don't want to be
building nursery schools, but a cable car passing through the zone is
not much more of a deal than a bus passing through the zone, of which
there are presumably many.