It sees a bit old fashioned to rely on the road network when we are putting in this fantastic public transport option. They cannot all be carrying gold medals! They cannot all need protection. Why can you not just say to the IOC that, actually, it is much more efficient to go by public transport, and not pollute east London further?
The Mayor has written that he wants to see an end to governnent tax concessions to the aviation industry (worth £8.5 billion in 2000); since according to calculations based on the July 2002 SERAS document and the DoT's price sensitivity test, the end of all concessions would reduce passenger demand in the Southeast to 135 million passengers a year by 2020, which could be met by existing airport capacity for up to 154 million passengers a year, would you accept that the end of tax concessions in the near future would remove the need for new capacity in the Southeast...
