http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Chris Grailing suggestion for new Heathrow runway - comical!! en Thu, 21 May 2026 20:38:34 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17072#post-234670 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:28:27 +0000 ih 234670@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't know what Grayling actually said, but the idea was to put the M25 in a tunnel under the runway. Edit: didn't see previous post before I posted.</p> <p>Tunnel or ramp, they're both mad. I can't see why, if big airports are thought necessary, that they couldn't build it in the English Midlands where it might actually be welcomed, with fast rail links to the London, and other north of England cities. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17072#post-234669 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:22:32 +0000 urchaidh 234669@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I believe the original plan was to put the M25 in a tunnel under the runway rather than the other way round. Still nuts though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17072#post-234668 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:21:43 +0000 steveo 234668@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Couldn't we just land the planes in Roseburn and use HS2 to get folk down to that London? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17072#post-234667 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:07:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 234667@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Comical indeed. They should clearly just use the M25 as part of the runway where the two cross. Remove the central reservation, put in traffic lights and off we go. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17072#post-234665 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:58:32 +0000 DaveC 234665@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"...Mr Grailing said putting it [the new Heathrow runway] on a ramp over the M25 would be cheaper than putting the new runway IN A TUNNELL UNDER THE M25....." </p> <p>My mind is boggling at how wide this runway tunnel would have to be to accomodate jumbo jets... never mind how they would land IN THE TUNNELL if the wind was eastery!!</p> <p>Listen from 15 minutes and 55 seconds.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080k4x7#play" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080k4x7#play</a> </p>