Public Attitudes to Airport Expansion
Last month (August 2007) some EFoE members joined local residents and campaigners from Greenpeace, WDM and Friends of the Earth to poll people in West London about what they thought about airport expansion.
In all just over 1000 people were polled in 6 different locations and the results looked like this:
Q1:Would you support government action to make rail travel a more affordable, easy, and pleasant alternative to air travel within the UK ?
A1: 96% yes (other results pretty much insignificant)
Q2:
Do you support the expansion of Heathrow airport?
A2: 24% yes;
62% no;
14% undecided/don't know
Q3:
Would you be willing to holiday more in the UK than abroad to protect
your local area from airport expansion, and help combat climate
change?