"the PRT vehicles will emit no pollutants into the airport environment, they will use less energy and overall emit far less greenhouse gases than other forms of transport, and they will be much quieter, important to the local community..... BAA does not seem so caring of the environment or local communities as they they claim... from The Guardian:
'Bullying' BAA seeks Heathrow protest injunction.
The Heathrow operator, BAA, will today seek "the mother of all injunctions" at the high court to prevent thousands of people affiliated to environmental organisations from attending a protest at the airport.
BAA wants to ban the Camp for Climate Action demonstration planned at Heathrow from August 14 to 21. The company says it wants to "protect the airport and the safety of passengers and staff against the planned direct action by environmental activists". But environmental groups accuse BAA of "corporate bullying" designed to shut down peaceful protest. "They are trying to bully over 5 million people who are critical of their plans to massively increase their output of greenhouse gases," said Joss Garman of the anti-aviation group Plane Stupid, one of the groups named in the BAA court action.
The injunction application, seen by the Guardian, seeks to impose bans on people travelling on the Piccadilly line on the London Underground, on mainline trains and on motorways.
The London mayor, Ken Livingstone, has accused BAA of being "out of their skull" and paving the way for hardcore protesters to invade the climate action camp.
John Stewart, the chairman of the Heathrow anti-noise and anti-expansion organisation Hacan, said: "This is the mother of all injunctions.
"The aviation executives who dreamed up this one should be spending their time and money reducing the huge impact of aviation on the climate and local communities, instead of trying to put legal shackles on people who want to protest peacefully."
Heathrow has been targeted by climate change campaigners as the government prepares to start the formal process of building a third runway. The runway proposal is backed by ministers, airlines and business leaders but opposed by local residents and green activists, who say expansion will contravene environmental policy.
Like I always say... PRT is usually promoted where there is a plan for highway expansion... the same apparently is true for airport expansion.
Ken Avidor blogs about Personal Rapid Transit scams worldwide.
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