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It would be the biggest airport in the world. Reaching out into the Thames Estuary, it would serve 150 million passengers a year—more than twice as many as Heathrow—and operate 24 hours a day.
This is Thames Hub, the astonishing 50 billion cost to solve London’s aviation crisis.
Yesterday, plans were uncovered for the four-runway airport on a sparse strip of land on the Isle of Grain, in Kent.
Designed by architect Lord Norman Foster—who created the new Wembley Stadiu m—th e airport would be a modern-day feat of British engineering built on cultivated marshland(沼泽地). It would include the UK’s busiest railway station, handl ing 300, 000 passengers a day.
Planes would fly in from the northeast, prim arily over water, greatly reducing the number of homes that would be affected by aircraft noise.
