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David Cantrell · September 3rd 14, 01:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:00:52PM +0000, d wrote:
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:50:51 +0100
Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 02/09/2014 11:40, d wrote:
Logic actually favours no expansion at all.
By this you mean your logic or the logic you're minded to believe in?

This logic:
Expansion will do next to nothing for UK business
Will add to pollution

Most people don't care much about pollution. They might *say* that they
care but their behaviour disagrees.

Will add to noise

I've addressed that here before. The problem is nothing like as
widespread as is purported, or as severe.

Flights arn't a natural phenomenon that have to be dealt with. They don't
suddenly appear out of the ether. If the airports can't cope with the amount
of flights they shouldn't give the airlines the slots in the first place.
Simple. If they're over capacity its their own damn faults.

They're not over capacity. Heathrow is approaching or at capacity. When
something is operating at its full capacity it becomes fragile, but is
normally still better than the same system operating below capacity.

I await the response that if you build more capacity it will fill up,
and you hear the same argument about road building. Strangely, it's
rarely used when it comes to railways. But in any case if people feel
Apart from HS1 and crossrail, when was the last time a major railway was
built in this country?

Irrelevant. The issue isn't about what was built when, but about people
strangely not decrying them because they are expecting them to actually
be used.

Or to be more precise - which century? And have you
no noticed all the complaining about HS2?

Yes, I've noticed lots of Nimbies.

If we see air travel as a necessity, even if that is an evil necessity,
Do we?

Yes. Taking society as a whole, yes we do. That you personally don't
isn't of any importance.

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