Evening Standard: " ‘Hitler’ jibe at Boris airport as Mayor wants to close Heathrow and create new borough"

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"A leading architect today attacked Boris Johnson’s 'mad' plan to build a £65 billion airport on the Thames Estuary and compared it to a project that Adolf Hitler might have dreamed up.

"Sir Terry Farrell, who has designed some of the world’s largest airports and railway stations, said the scale of the proposed four-runway project would be unprecedented in Britain and made the Government’s HS2 high-speed rail project “look like chicken feed”.

"The Mayor today underlined his commitment to an estuary airport by naming Sir Norman Foster’s Isle of Grain plan as his first choice. Expansion at Stansted was his second choice with a “Boris island” in the outer estuary third."