£32bn: what would it buy?

[Butts]

The third runway at Heathrow wouldn't have cost anything though, it was fully private funding from BAA Ltd...

My God what a crazy world we live in.........

How many short haul aircraft and improvements to other Airports would that amount of money pay for ?

 

[Tomonthetrain]

I'd have also demolished Birmingham New Street and rebuilt it...from Scratch!

 

[Eagle]

I'd have also demolished Birmingham New Street and rebuilt it...from Scratch!

And what would you do with the trains while you did that? :P

 

[Class172]

And what would you do with the trains while you did that? :P

Send them via Snow Hill!

*realises that is impossible*

 

[Nym]

And what would you do with the trains while you did that? :P

Sod em, it's only Birmingham...

It's an inconvenience to be overcome on the way to London or Somerset...

 

[Tomonthetrain]

And what would you do with the trains while you did that? :P

Have knitting on Camp Hill and Snow Hill, a chord to enable trains to get to Wolverhampton and Euston from Moor Street, rail replacement for everything else!

 

[Schnellzug]

...or being left on the platform as three full rakes pass by; there only being 50 seats per carriage rather than 75. Tables take up room.

the point, though, is that they had to make do with silly short trains because of either Government stinginess or incompetence by those who specified them. The point here is that this is a 'money no object' kind of scenario. I'm talking about proper trains, 12 coaches or so, that kind of thing.
Anyway, a mk 3 can accommodate 74 or so as it is, admittedly not all in bays.
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My God what a crazy world we live in.........

How many short haul aircraft and improvements to other Airports would that amount of money pay for ?

the only benefit to Heathrow being UK International is that it provides a nice lucrative business for everyone getting people to there from everywhere else in the country. What we need is to decentralise; stop constantly pumping London up into a bigger and bigger monster.