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‘Green light’ for HS2 interpreted as death knell for Heathrow expansion

The high profile announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson that a high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham is to go ahead led some to speculate that a third runway at Heathrow may be cut. Rik Thomas reports

Rik Thomas
21 February 2020
 

The government's well publicised decision to approve HS2 led to some media speculation about the fate of a third runway at Heathrow Airport, given the deafening silence on the latter subject. “Few of the arguments which won the day for a high-speed rail project apply to the airport expansion,” The Guardian’s financial editor, Nils Pratley, said on 11 February. “Two arguments, both with a flavour of despair, flicked the light to green for HS2. First, £9bn has been...

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