Dyson backs Boris Island airport plans
07.11.11
Plans for a £50bn four-runway airport in the Thames Estuary, the so called 'Boris Island' airport backed by London Mayor Boris Johnson, have received the backing of designer Sir James Dyson the Mail on Sunday reports. The airport on the Isle of Grain in Kent, which could handle 150m passengers a year, was proposed by architect Lord Foster last week.
Sir James said the UK needed large-scale infrastructure projects such as the Thames Hub airport. He said: ‘There was a time when Britain's infrastructure was envied across the globe. Our railways, roads and sewers put us well ahead of our European neighbours in the race to industrialise. But we have lost the ambition and vision of our Victorian ancestors. It's time we did something. We need to revive the thinking on a grand scale that characterised the Victorian age of invention.’
The inventor told the newspaper that despite annual airport passenger numbers in the UK standing at 127 million it was not prepared for the future. He said: ‘All those passengers have money to spend and many have business deals to sign. If Britain wants to be a force in the future we must have the infrastructure to keep them coming. Large-scale infrastructure projects offer a solution and, rather than pie-in-the sky, projects such as the proposed Thames Estuary airport are exactly what we need.’
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