"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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On 25/04/2016 09:14, Recliner wrote:
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 25/04/2016 09:00, Recliner wrote:
From
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/...rt-for-london/

Quote:

Heathrow's controversial proposal to build a third runway would place a
£16bn burden on Transport for London, the agency has said, as it would
require upgrades to the road and railway networks that service the
airport.

TfL said Heathrow had "substantially underestimated" the impact of the
extra runway, as it released a figure eight times higher than the
£2.2bn
that the airport had calculated.

The transport authority instead estimates that the development, which
could
lead to heavier congestion on London's roads, buses and trains, will
have a
£18.4bn price tag.

Heathrow has previously promised that £1.2bn would be raised through
public
contributions, with the airport spending another £1bn, leaving a
shortfall
of more than £16bn.

... continues


Haven't they put off the announcement yet again?


The government has deferred its announcement till after the referendum.
And
perhaps it will find some other reason after that.

But assuming that it will eventually have no choice but to stop
dithering,
the chances are that it will turn out that both LHR and LGW have allowed
for only modest contributions to the public transport improvements
outside
their perimeters. They've almost certainly assumed that most of the
expensive enhancements to the local roads and railways will be paid for
by
the government, not the airports. And this could be the sticking point
with
both proposals.


Costs at LGW, whoever pays, are going to be a lot less than at LHR. Not
sure what the relative political cost will be. No leading politician has
nailed himself to the mast of opposing Gatwick expansion so you will
mainly be dealing with the usual nimbies, many of whom will moan but carry
on voting tory anyway so they can effectively be ignored.

and if if the don't, wont make any difference to the end result

tim