Heathrow, has outlived its usefulness. Let's turn it into the world's greatest New Town

摘要

Let's face it, Heathrow is a lousy location for an airport. An almost accidental development, it was never envisaged as having to handle the current volume of traffic, let alone the anticipated increases now prompting demands for its expansion. Air traffic was a gentler matter pre-1939 - only warfare filled the skies with planes. In 1943 Lutyens envisaged a new London Airport on the South Bank (honestly). The remnant of that idea is London City Airport - in a better location but ceftainly not suitable for major expansion. MPs are 'demanding' Heathrow be given an additional runway or two, oblivious to the noise that blights the lives of millions of Londoners. Airlines and the private company that owns Heathrow frequently collude to sanction illegal night or early-morning flights that add insult to injury.