Summary Box: New London airport gets support

(AP)? WILL IT FLY? Support is growing for a new London airport in the Thames Estuary region of southeast England, the capital's mayor said Wednesday. Boris Johnson said the government was "increasingly interested" in the ambitious proposal, which would see a massive new air hub built where the River Thames meets the North Sea.

HEATHROW HEAVE-HO: The new airport would effectively replace Heathrow, London's current long-haul hub. The airport handles 65 million passengers annually, making it Europe's busiest, but longstanding plans to build a third runway there were scrapped following a drawn-out and acrimonious debate with local residents and environmental groups.

READY FOR TAKEOFF: The airport would be built about 40 miles southeast of central London. A proposal recently published by London-based Foster & Partners envisions a multi-runway facility on a marshy, sparsely populated peninsula at the edge of the estuary. It would be linked to London by a four-track, high-speed train line which would plug into the Channel tunnel rail link and a planned high-speed line to Birmingham, England.

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