Boris Island and HS3; a runway and airporters

September 2014 post updated August 2015

Boris Johnson's vision for a brand new hub airport (with four runways) in the Thames estuary has been turned down for now. Perhaps one day Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn might have more success. Why not build it with HS3?

The Guardian ran an excellent piece on population densities which I used to argue for an HS3 route under London shown in blue below.

A loop shown in purple linking with Boris Island airport, also purple, would be practical for the following reasons:
 1) Spoil from tunnelling could be delivered via the tunnels to create the island.
 2) Stations on route would serve additional high density populations.
 3) Excellent communications would result north and south of the Thames estuary.
 4) Smart timetabling would give HS3 trains great flexibility on parallel routes.

The idea is picked up in the second Buffalo Future novel which is in structural edit and should be published by the end of the 2015.

Meanwhile another runway at a site that is best for the environment, and connected to other airports or transport hubs by airporters makes sense.

That might have to wait for Corbyn, PM too!


Elder Adok