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Diamond.... You forgot to mention that removing half of Newhsms population would also drastically help reduce crime in the area! :)
Lucas | 20.05.12 - 2:02 a.m. | #
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this is one of those posts that my distance from London makes it uncertain whether this should have the irony flag on it not. I have decided that it should?
In my three years in London many years ago I never once went anywhere near Plaistow. Could be a field for all I know.
wilees | 20.05.12 - 3:08 a.m. | #
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Is it Plaistow as rhymes with “Play-Dough†or Plaistow that rhymes with “Plast – Ohâ€.
During the war, the Dutch checked out suspicious looking strangers by asking them to pronounce the name of Dan Haag suburb Scheveningen. Locals in Newham could see off theodolite toting intruders by doing the same thing.
Mwmbwls | Homepage | 20.05.12 - 7:36 a.m. | #
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I have lived in West London for 65 years and never get upset by the aircraft, I would love to see a Third runway at Heathrow asap. Aircraft would spend less time being stacked, wasting fuel and polluting the air. Most of the people who complain about Heathrow airport noise moved to the area knowing the airport was their, and many of them probably fly. I nowadays try not too fly and will use alternative means of transport whenever possible.
A high speed train link Heathrow-Gatwick, also bring Eurostar to Heathrow, Get High speed rail for domestic services, so people are not flying London to Manchester etc.
I do not think Plaistow would be a good site for a new airport, the "Boris Island airport" would probably be awful for wild life, many years ago they wanted to build a new airport at Maplin sands, but realised birds would be a problem.
John | 20.05.12 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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Should I admit that I thought it was pronounced "Play-stow"?
ganching | Homepage | 20.05.12 - 9:19 a.m. | #
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Nothing at all airport related, but further to yesterday's post. I am sat on my loo right now reading your blog on my iPad. And it looks great, thanks!
geofftech | 20.05.12 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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An airport at Plaistow would be the logical thing to do. Historically it is generally true that the good stuff (desirable properties etc.) lies to the west of cities and all the less desirable stuff gets moved to the east due to the prevailing winds. In keeping up with the spirit of this in modern times it is about time we recognise our planning mistakes from the past. Closing Heathrow and creating a new airport at Plaistow would help rectify the current imbalance.
Pedantic of Purley | 20.05.12 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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I'm sold. Plaistow must go.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 20.05.12 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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I wonder if an airport in Plaistow has been considered by the Government?
Andrewh | Homepage | 20.05.12 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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It's sorted then. Plaistow it is.
Debster | Homepage | 20.05.12 - 12:44 p.m. | #
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Can you tell me which terminal the 69 bus will be serving and does the 473 become an inter-airport shuttle linking with LCY?
btw.
PC | 20.05.12 - 12:45 p.m. | #
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In view of the economic situation, there would have to be a corporate sponsor to make the building of the airport viable. Perhaps it would be named Kemble London Airport (KLA), named after the consortium that operates the great sewer that crosses the area?
I can hear Ian Dury's ghost singing the first line of 'Plaistow Patricia'.
Bob Lindsay-Smith | 20.05.12 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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Even better - why not build it ON the Olympic park site? That would solve the problem of what to do with all the white-elephant stadia at a stroke. And its transport links are much better than Plaistow.
Mention of Plaistow always reminds of an "earworm" I can't identify - who was it sang a song with the lines
'he gives her his money; she says "ta". He says "I'm off to the public bar'
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"Mr and Mrs Joseph Green, of Plaistow London, East Fifteen"
timbo | 20.05.12 - 4:16 p.m. | #
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I don't have a problem with Plaistow International either! :-D
CornishCockney | 20.05.12 - 5:25 p.m. | #
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Say no to Plaistow's Third Runway!
Barry | 20.05.12 - 6:06 p.m. | #
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Yes it's Plarstow, but why is it spelt and pronounced the way it is?
Freddie | 20.05.12 - 6:17 p.m. | #
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We must stop dithering and get on with building this. If we don't, the airlines will all choose to take their passengers to Dubai instead of London. And then where would be?
Joe D | Homepage | 20.05.12 - 6:33 p.m. | #
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Can we get it built in time for the Olympics?
Blue Witch | Homepage | 20.05.12 - 7:21 p.m. | #
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What Olympics?
Debster | Homepage | 20.05.12 - 7:42 p.m. | #
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Sorry to put spanner in the works, but could we not shift the airport a little further north into the area that be Forest Gate. Romford Road (another dead straight masterclass of Roman engineering) would make such a perfect runway!
Lucas | 20.05.12 - 8:13 p.m. | #
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Debster I'm surprised you didn't know.
These Olympics. ;-D
http://lovemeow.com/2009/11/lolcat-kitten-olympics/
Michael in the Netherlands | 20.05.12 - 8:17 p.m. | #
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Why does the airport have to be on the ground? Just build it a few hundred feet above Plaistow, then paint some decent weather on the underside of it.
It will be nearer to the aeroplanes as well.
Paul | 20.05.12 - 9:42 p.m. | #
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They were actually talking about London's airports on the talk radio stations, not so long ago. One of the callers actually seemed to think that people chose which airport to use, according to which one they lived nearest to.
But, hey, Plaistow could work for loads for people because it's so near the middle.
I'd vote for that. A quick blat through the Blackwall Tunnel and I could be there in less than half an hour.
BTW, there's a part of Bromley called Plaistow. We invariably pronounce it the posh way.
RogerW | 20.05.12 - 10:40 p.m. | #
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Hey Paul,
Why not build it underground? So much better for the enviroment and it works for cross rail!
john | 21.05.12 - 12:21 a.m. | #
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@Bob Lindsay-Smith - the Kemble Airport name is now available after the Kemble Airfield at the other end of the Thames was ludicrously re-named Cotswold Airport in 2009. Apparently you can fly there if you're coming to Olympics.
http://www.cotswoldairport.com/testimonials/suz
Whiff | 21.05.12 - 2:00 a.m. | #
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Wow kitten olympics!!!
Debster | Homepage | 21.05.12 - 7:57 p.m. | #
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@whiff - many thanks for that information, and for the link, which is very odd. Maybe they have confused Stratford-on-Avon with Stratford East.
Regarding a possible new Kemble Airport in/on/under E13, the airport code KPW is apparently still free, and would give a nod to the former name of the area...
Bob Lindsay-Smith | 22.05.12 - 12:21 a.m. | #
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Wha' are you finkin ov, you Baistards.
Cockney Barrowboy | 22.05.12 - 9:11 p.m. | #
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A true "London Airport' is a ridiculous and wasteful idea. With trains that travel at 300kph there is no need to build such an expensive and ultimately destructive property anywhere near central London.
City-reality already makes a trip to Heathrow or Gatwick up to an hour's travel. A new airport 30 or even 50 miles outside the city on high speed rail would take less than half that time, cost a small fraction of this inner-city nightmare, including the new rail lines, and create a much better climate for manufacturing, warehousing, and other businesses that are transport-reliant.
More passenger traffic in and out of London is little real benefit. Build an airport designed for industry, not tourism and finance.
imajoebob | 23.05.12 - 12:02 a.m. | #
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