Boris Airport hasn’t sunk quite yet…
“The Mayor has made it clear that if there is an overriding economic, environmental, political or practical reason why the airport would not work, then he will not progress the project. But he is determined to consider all the arguments first so it can be decided once and for all whether the airport is a feasible option.”
One hopes that the thoughts of Derek Wyatt, MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, will be taken into consideration. When the airport ideas were first mooted, he commented that…
“To build an airport you need an operator, but BAA doesn’t want to do it. Secondly, you need a major airline to fly from there and none of them want to do it either.
“The roads around Sheppey are already pretty busy and added with the airport traffic we’re talking about 250,000 vehicles every day. With no new rail or road infrastructure, how is that going to work?”
When he proposed a meeting with Boris, however, the Mayor had…to…go…outside…
“Much as I appreciate your invitation, I am, alas, snowed under and mustn’t take on anything else at the moment. Please accept my apologies.”
Boris’s office has claimed that he won’t discuss the issue until the study is completed, but how can it be at all effective if it doesn’t take the views of Sheppey residents into account? Even the local Tories think that the airport is “a dead duck before it’s even been hatched“.
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Why is our money being wasted on something that is not the Mayor’s remit?
There are also question marks around why one of the senior Crossrail people is apparently moonlighting for free on this, why Malthouse thinks that he can take time off from policing when there’s the fallout from the Blair Affair to handle and whether they will publish the results of the study.
dare i raise the problem of rising sea levels???
seems like a worse than dumb idea
maybe thats why the Sheppey conservatives labelled it “…. now dead in the water.”