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This is going to be a quick dig at Heathrow, BAA and surrounding authorities. I grew up around Heathrow, indeed the site upon which Terminal 4 was built used to be a field where I played when I was a kid.

When T4 was proposed I was excited because I would get the opportunity to watch it being built, thus watching a piece of Heathrow history in the making - which I did.
A few years went by and I finally left school, I went to work at the airport for a well-known ‘American’ airline. This job lasted only a year as it was a YTS (youth training scheme), and we were routinely ‘let go’ as soon as it neared the time where they would have to offer us employment.
Even then I had to travel almost an hour to get to the inner terminals from my home which was very near by. If I was given the opportunity to walk from my front door to Terminal 3 in a straight line It would have taken me 15 minutes - as was by bus it took 45 minutes.
Anyway, permission given for Terminal 4 to be built where under the conditions that a Terminal 5 would never be built. And so, the project went ahead.

Later, a 4 year inquiry went under way to discuss if a Terminal 5 could/should be built anyway. It cost quite a bit of money, or so I heard. Despite the previous conditions regarding Terminal 4, Terminal 5 was given the go ahead.
It’s just after this time that I got a job working on the project for Terminal 5 as the Logistics Document Controller, and it was here I gained access to a vast library of documents, as was my job, and lets just say, I saw copies of proposed blueprints for Terminal 5 dated as far back as the early 1980’s. When I saw this stuff I was totally shocked but did nothing as it was none of my business, and still isn’t - I was just dumbfounded that they’d left the stuff laying around.

I am glad to say that I’ve moved far away from Heathrow now as I realise it’s contribution to my Asthma was more than should be legal.
Since I’ve moved away, my repeat prescriptions have halved and I feel much more energetic.
But I still feel for the residents of Heathrow and surrounding towns, I feel deeply because it’s a death-trap for people with respiratory problems and is a magnet for future ill health.

So when I heard that Terminal 5 would be implementing ‘driverless’ electric pods I was totally happy… for a short while, because when I looked into the story I found that only ‘Car Owners’ will get to have a go as it is to transit them from terminal to car park.
They will have only 18 of these babies and I’m thinking that will not be enough for one of the most busiest airports in the world - not only is it busy but it’s so spread out that to give it a single Postcode is surely cheating.

Note: I can not confirm nor deny that they will be extending this facility to th security guards, airport staff, cleaners, gardeners or caretakers who have to frequent the said car parks in order the carry out their daily duties - and they make up a great deal of the traffic on the perimeter road.

There, The Ged has spoken!

Reference: The Guardian