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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind
Posted by: Roland Gilmore
Date/Time: 19/04/10 14:09:00

No extra taxes are necessary Suzanne. The Thames Estuary Airport itself will be funded privately including road and tunnel links. However, there are proposals for linking in to the Chunnel Tunnel Rail Link and this will need both commercial and political agreements. The rail links would give journey times of 30 minutes to St Pancras, 50 minutes to Paris and 1 hr 30 min to Brussels.

There are, in fact, three separate proposals for a Thames Estuary Airport that have private funding. There are others that do not have such promises but these are around the discredited schemes for the airport to be located on or adjacent to the Hoo peninsula.

If you want to know more, the full report, commissioned by Boris Johnson is available here:-

http://www.testrad.co.uk/pdf/TEAFRreport.pdf

It is worth bearing in mind that even if the 3rd runway were built and operational by 2015, another runway at Heathrow will need to operational within the next 20 years (by 2030); according to Dept of Transport figures. The preferred Thames Estuary Airport scheme could eventually accommodate up to 6 runways.

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
It's an ill wind15/04/10 12:27:00 Peter Savage
   Re:It's an ill wind15/04/10 13:17:00 Maczysz Dzieduszycki
      Re:Re:It's an ill wind15/04/10 18:58:00 Simon Knight
         Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind16/04/10 21:17:00 Sue Riggs
   Re:It's an ill wind16/04/10 06:06:00 Elizabeth Balsom
      Re:Re:It's an ill wind16/04/10 11:01:00 Bunny Payne
         Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind17/04/10 06:07:00 Roland Gilmore
            Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind17/04/10 20:57:00 Bunny Payne
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind18/04/10 11:09:00 Jonathan Callaway
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind18/04/10 11:24:00 Guy Sunda
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind18/04/10 21:27:00 Alan Thomson
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind19/04/10 07:06:00 Elizabeth Balsom
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind19/04/10 12:28:00 Suzanne Taylor
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind19/04/10 14:09:00 Roland Gilmore
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind20/04/10 07:26:00 Elizabeth Balsom
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind20/04/10 08:27:00 Richard Carter
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's an ill wind20/04/10 09:55:00 Adam Tripp

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