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**prmnwoks** · 03-29-2008, 07:21 PM

Notwithstanding Tenenbaum's usual chauvinist rant against those of Albion, as a Londoner and a frequent victim of Heathrow I can't help but be, once again, flabbergasted by the general inability of transport authorities in the UK to get things right which seem to be well within the reach of lesser nations.

It's all made more galling by:
1) the uncharacteristically boosterish and sycophantic press coverage of the T5 opening; more or less comparing a fairly humdrum modern airport terminal to some sort of 8th wonder of the world.
2) the fact that T5 was built against condiderably regional opposition and will result in a further runway being built in a very poor position (after the MoT perjured itself saying the new terminal would not lead to a new runway...)

It's just one of those national "black holes", which every country has (See: "Luca's theory of national 'black holes'").

I reckon that within weeks it will be running at a "normal" (for Heathrow) pace.

03-29-2008, 07:21 PM	#5
prmnwoks Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 372 Senior Member	Notwithstanding Tenenbaum's usual chauvinist rant against those of Albion, as a Londoner and a frequent victim of Heathrow I can't help but be, once again, flabbergasted by the general inability of transport authorities in the UK to get things right which seem to be well within the reach of lesser nations. It's all made more galling by: 1) the uncharacteristically boosterish and sycophantic press coverage of the T5 opening; more or less comparing a fairly humdrum modern airport terminal to some sort of 8th wonder of the world. 2) the fact that T5 was built against condiderably regional opposition and will result in a further runway being built in a very poor position (after the MoT perjured itself saying the new terminal would not lead to a new runway...) It's just one of those national "black holes", which every country has (See: "Luca's theory of national 'black holes'"). I reckon that within weeks it will be running at a "normal" (for Heathrow) pace.
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