The announcement yesterday of the Government’s support for the expansion of Heathrow to include a new third runway have obviously generated a lot of heated comment on both sides of the argument.
Personally I support the position that our Shadow Transport Secretary Theresa Villiers has taken, and new investment in high-speed rail to the north of England is cleaner, greener, more effective and more sensible than the unsustainable expansion of Heathrow.
My thoughts, however, are with the good people of the village of Sipson, where 700 homes, together with livelihoods, shops, pubs and even a cemetary, would be bulldozed to make way for the expansion. I didn’t get into politics to destroy communities and here in 2009 I simply don’t see how tearing and entire village and community of 1500-odd people apart at the seams can possibly be the right or justified thing to do.
I thought I’d also quickly draw your attention to this must-read post from David Ottewell on the Transport Secretary’s announcements yesterday. Yet again we have been let down by the Labour Government on transport funding. Not good enough, Mr Hoon.
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