The Metropolis

Assembly's non-Tories call Mayor Johnson's Estuary airport plan "simplistic" and a "vanity project"

Mike Pollitt | Thursday 21 June, 2012 11:20

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“This Assembly believes that the Mayor’s plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary are simplistic and ill-considered and calls upon him to abandon this vanity project.”

Labour AM Murad Qureshi’s motion passed 15-9, with Conservatives opposed and non-Conservatives in favour. So it’s a predictably partisan response which doesn’t teach us much about the question of whether London needs some airport expansion, or where any extra capacity should be built.

But with the Standard enthusiastically handing out the shovels, it’s important that airport-sceptics make their voices heard.

The Standard – We need a proper modern airport – get on with it

See also:
Does London need another airport?

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