Heathrow

[biffvernon]

Reuters:

BAA said on Thursday it hoped to demolish the existing 50-year-old Terminal 2 and office buildings and develop a modern facility capable of handling up to 30 million passengers.

That's another billion pounds allocated to the Great White Elephant then.

[clv101]

Yeah... there are lots of crazy things in the world but I think the single craziest is the programme of airport expansion the government seems set on.

[fishertrop]

For the sake of the world's poor, we must keep the wealthy at home
George Monbiot
Tuesday February 28, 2006
The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Co ... 28,00.html

This is now broadly understood by almost everyone I meet. But it has had no impact whatever on their behaviour. When I challenge my friends about their planned weekend in Rome or their holiday in Florida, they respond with a strange, distant smile and avert their eyes. They just want to enjoy themselves. Who am I to spoil their fun? The moral dissonance is deafening.