L’espansione dell’aeroporto di Heathrow pianifica per costare £ 49 miliardi, i piani rivelano

Just fucking build it.

It’s been over 20 years since the idea was first floated and it still doesn’t exist.

It’s mad how incapable of building anything we are.

Spend it on high-speed rail instead. There’s loads of airport capacity in the country if we got rid of all the short-haul flights.

I don’t understand why the Heathrow situation doesn’t get the kind of attention HS2 does. The expansion efforts have probably cost more and have certainly taken much longer. The very epitome of the UK’s dysfunction.

And it’s for the same reasons: the British class system. A lazy, entitled managerial/government class full of people who have never set foot in a maths or science classroom and whose experience with those who have is made up of telling immigrant IT workers to make their devices work. Boomers expecting to be able to dictate that they either make a massive profit from whatever is going on or get to shut it down and make it happen to other people. Experts who are being ignored because they’re not the kind of people who get a look in in government.

I’m an environmentalist but it has been clear for my entire life that Heathrow needs to expand. The new runway probably won’t be sufficient. We need a coherent transportation system, not one where there are different airports dotted all over the place near London. It is beyond ridiculous that the situation has been allowed to drag on for so long.

The actual runway will only cost £21 billion, but they are including other plans to improve the airport infrastructure and upgrade terminals:

>Heathrow said it would cost £21bn to build the third runway, which includes procuring the land, changing the M25 and other associated infrastructure costs while building the new terminal would be £12bn and modernising the current airport’s infrastructure £15bn. Due to rounding, it will total £49bn.