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    Heathrow’s third runway delayed until 2039

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    1. AyeItsMeToby on

      Our planning and infrastructure investment system is an embarrassment.

      By 2039 we should be talking about a fourth or fifth runway.

    2. billy_tables on

      That’s a long time but consider that it’s still soon enough Ryanair would have the passengers waiting to board already

    4. Danielharris1260 on

      Is we were serious country it would’ve been 2 new runways being discussed rather than just the one. One of the world’s busiest airports being stuck with 2 runways for this long is embarrassing.

    5. WelshBathBoy on

      They should have just gone ahead with the first plan in the first place – all those people complaining they would lose their homes, but under the new proposal will now be under a flightpath!

      Or go ahead with the aurora group proposal and stop all this M25 realignment nonsense, then in x number of times extend the 3ed runway to the original 2009 proposal.

    7. Nuthetes on

      What an embarassment of a country. China will be absolutely laughing at the absolute state of us, unable to get any project off the ground. 2039 lmfao

    8. Ashwee11 on

      Our entire planning system is a fucking joke.

      We genuinely need to abolish planning laws and start again.

    9. cardboardhead on

      Alright time to get the travellers in. I’ve read they’ve paved a village in under 48hrs. We’ll have 3rd runway by end of the year

    10. PangolinOk6793 on

      It’s baffling that they bicker about this proposed runway indefinitely and then constantly refuse to shortlist a second runway directly next to Birmingham Interchange HS2 station. Which would have a 35 minute journey time to Euston

    11. tomegerton99 on

      Can’t wait for it to reach 2039, then the planning application then ends up getting mobbed by NIMBYs with nothing else to do

    12. PeaGravy on

      China must be pissing themselves when they watch us wringing our hands over things that they would do in a weekend

    13. Stevemachinehk on

      Hong Kong under British rule built an island, an airport on the island, road and rail links including 3 huge bridges in 6 years.1992-1998. Cost was 60 billion US$

    14. Abject_Driver_5207 on

      It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for Heathrow to build another runway.

    16. illegitimate_guru on

      We’re in a race with Lisbon (Portugal) for the slowest airport expansion…

      We’re both neck and neck, as at least we know where we’re going to build ours but theirs is just one runway.

      Both projects are national jokes…

    18. applecombinipimento on

      Brother this is pretty bad

      House of commons needs a refurb

      And we need a third runaway

      We also probably need to up defense spending when Russia tries to connect up to Kaliningrad and that sets off nato defense protocol

      We gotta reorient the economy quite a bit tbh

    19. MonkeysMonolith on

      At this point it might be cheaper to build a state-of-the-art airport near London to succeed Heathrow.

      Give it a super fast tube/rail line and we’ll be good.

    21. OneNineSeven1970 on

      Chicago O’Hare has 8 runways btw. We can’t even get a third at at the busiest airport in our country. Why are we so shit?

    24. fayemoonlight on

      Between this and HS2 I don’t know what’s more humiliating. All these things will be woefully outdated by the time they’re predicted to be built (they will not be built by then), so this is all an utter waste of money and time. Absolutely pathetic from our country. You see how shambolic roadworks are alone.

    25. NagromNitsuj on

      Net Zero suggests all the regulators make far more money from this project before its not complete. There’s work to be done.

    26. ne6c on

      Our planning system is absolutely fucked and no one is fixing it. It doesn’t help that we have a luddite mayor that is also opposing this.

      We can do so much better with our politicians.

    27. Fatkittenballs on

      If someones house is work £600k, just give them 2 million and clear the place and flatten it, don’t piss about with all these daft bridge over the M25 ideas. Get it done if you want it

    28. whiskeyislove on

      God this has been talked about for nigh on 30 years at this point. Why can we never just get stuff done that needs to be done.

    29. OffWhiteBruceForsyth on

      Fuck me, China would have built a brand new airport and a city to house a population of 10m to go with it in that time.

    30. whynotjustgoogleit on

      Meanwhile Dubai is building a new airport with 5 runways and it’s opening in 5 years.

      I appreciate there are a few differences, it’s easier to build on land that’s empty. But still, the UK is getting left behind.

    31. ExcuseAdept827 on

      Starting to think the boris island airport would have been a good infrastructure investment 🤣

    32. bhop_monsterjam on

      heathrow has been doomed since the day the m25 was built. why can’t we put a bit more emphasis on other airports? london has 5 of them with 30-45min connections to the city. and when(if) HS2 finishes, birmingham will be about the same amount.

    33. bagsofsmoke on

      God we so shit at infrastructure, it’s genuinely embarrassing. World’s busiest airport and we’re determined to undermine its position and ability to meet demand. We are honestly a joke.