Timeline for Why do airports in the UK have so few runways?
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| Nov 7, 2019 at 22:55 | comment | added | Vikki | @DavidRicherby: Except that you don't need to demolish any sections of Queens to expand JFK, since it's right next to Jamaica Bay and you can just make new land to expand the airport onto. | |
| Nov 6, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | David Richerby | Sorry but this is basically a bunch of stereotypes. The House of Lords is now almost completely non-hereditary. It's hard to see how Jane Austen is relevant, given that she died most of a century before the first powered flight. And, really, it doesn't much matter who owns the land or how long they've owned it. Demolishing a section of London to expand Heathrow really isn't much different from demolishing a section of Queens to expand JFK. | |
| Nov 6, 2019 at 4:58 | comment | added | Mazura | Heathrow: 4.74 sq mi. O'Hare: 11.9 sq mi. - you're going to need a bigger plot. Also, there's no comparison to be made to the city that once had both the largest and busiest airports at the same time. | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 13:15 | comment | added | DrMcCleod | +1 for "gouged out of history.". An excellent description of pretty much any non-trivial civil engineering project anywhere in the UK. | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 10:24 | comment | added | Dave Gremlin | @Harper Are you saying that I can only criticise points in your answer if I provide one of my own? Whenever I read a bad novel do I have to rewrite it to be allowed to criticise it? | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 7:40 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Why @Sean, I do believe you have the plot of a James Bond movie there! Evil genius aims to blow up the Montgomery so we can get on with building the airport, which he profits from somehow... | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 3:22 | comment | added | Vikki | I'm not sure why the wreck of the Richard Montgomery is brought up specifically in opposition to the idea of a Thames Estuary airport; it's going to go boom sooner or later, airport or no, and better to have it happen now and get it over with than wait until the surrounding area is even more built-up and crammed with people and development than it is now. | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Also you do realize Highclere Castle is real? So is the world of nobles and gentry portrayed in the Jane Austen books. She didn't invent the English class system. | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 18:16 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @DaveGremlin It's rather harsh to downvote for that. The reason for fictional sources is this is what the reading public can relate to. Why shouldn't we use readily available social metaphor to describe how things worked? Answers should be accessible. If you want to downvote me for that, you should be prepared to show how the concepts can be gotten across non-fictionally. Please write your own answer and we will let the readers decide. As far as the former military use, military exigencies can get a military airport established, but that does not help build or expand a civil one. | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 17:43 | comment | added | Dave Gremlin | I've downvoted this because it uses fictional sources as references and ignores the fact that many, many airfields have been built in the UK (especially England) for military use and have since become civilian airports (and brownfield sites) | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 16:18 | history | edited | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 16:11 | history | answered | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |