This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Should HMG choose funding a conventional HS2 railway over funding an airport twice the capacity of Heathrow on an artificial island? Funding both?
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Perhaps HMG should now seriously facilitate private funding to build BOTH an airport build on an artificial island & maglev trains. The envisaged cost of HS2 will be around £32bn. How about exploring the feasibility of using maglev trains travelling up to 311mph which guide along tracks by magnetic levitation instead? A British company is already able to tender for contracts to build maglev trains. Airports built on artificial islands & land masses, would reduce noise & smog pollution, congestion, as well as acting as a barrier against flooding. British built Hong Kong airport is built on an artificial island, for example. There is already on the drawing board a design for a £20 bn four-runway airport in the Thames estuary. Another £30 bn to build an integrated transport system with the airport, a new tidal wave power generating station & a four-track high speed rail route system that circle London, linking the airport.
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