{"id":1003,"date":"2012-12-24T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2013-02-18T16:58:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:58:15","slug":"analysis-from-mark-norman-bbc-south-east-business-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Analysis from Mark Norman &#8211; BBC South East Business Correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">&#8220;The fact that it is being called a &#8220;hub for northern Europe&#8221; gives us a clue as to what the architects are thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The discussions about UK airport capacity include arguments about how we need to integrate with and compete against our European neighbours. This new plan might offer a chance to do both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A Goodwin Sands airport also might offer better infrastructure links than one in the Thames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">High speed train services, the A2\/M2, a possible new second Thames crossing at Gravesend and ferry traffic to Europe could all offer support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">However, the technical challenge and the environmental arguments will be huge and it is one of those projects that the general public struggles to take seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">This is a serious proposal from a firm who have a good track record and it will now be considered alongside the other equally grand plans for an international hub airport in the South East.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This analysis was originally posted with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-20832367\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News article\">this BBC News article<\/a> <\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Posted &#8211; 24 December 2012<\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fact that it is being called a &#8220;hub for northern Europe&#8221; gives us a clue as to what the architects are thinking. The discussions about UK airport capacity include arguments about how we need to integrate with and compete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/?p=1003\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwinairport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}