When will this travel madness ever end?

"Three local authorities are to take the government to the high court
in an attempt to stop night flights which they claim break noise
regulations. Richmond, Wandsworth, and Windsor and Maidenhead councils
have campaigned against night flights at Heathrow for several years
and claim that the transport secretary, Ruth Kelly, is "failing in her
duty to protect residents from excessive night noise".

With the support of the other two councils, Richmond, in south-west
London, will seek a judicial review at the high court on May 20. It
will argue that "the current night flights regime is illegal as some
of the flights are noisier than are allowed by the government's own
rules".

It hopes that Kelly will be forced to cut the number of aircraft
allowed to land at Heathrow before 6am.

Environmental groups have claimed that an independent study
commissioned by the government and published last November showed that
millions of people were affected by aircraft noise..."

More:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/12/travelandtransport.transport

On Mar 12, 7:45 am, Doug riseup.net> wrote:

we we stop people and food being flown in at night. To help this I
suggest you help reduce the demand for air imported food by only
buying local produce.

Fod

In article <36292933-8478-411f-85ee-62683345e620
@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, Doug says...

You'd starve if that happened because many of them are bringing in your
airfreighted food.

Doug wrote:

That'll teach them to buy a house near a airport.

On 12 Mar, 11:12, Blah microsoft.com> wrote:

Richmond and Wandsworth are not near an airport. The truth is that
large parts of London are made to suffer from these flights and many
homes were there long before wasteful and polluting hypermobility
became the norm.

Doug (Doug riseup.net>) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

Doug wrote:

How many homes "suffered" when you flew to Morrocco and rode a highly
polluting motocycle round the desert?

Doug wrote:

I was working in Richmond the other week, from the fifth floor of the
office block Thiefrow was very visible.

Doug wrote:

Obviously, there are many values of "near". Richmond *is* near Heathrow
for almost any value of "near" (there's only Hounslow between them) and
Wandsworth is never very far from the Great West Road out to that
airport (aircraft noise being no respector of river boundaries).

I wouldn't take bets against estate agents in western Wandsworth selling
houses with the blurb "convenient for M4 and Heathrow", and neither
should you.

Doug riseup.net> wrote:

When prats like you stop trying to talk about issues you don't
understand.