On Sunday 7th February 2010, Hasty Lane tenants threatened by the expansion of Manchester Airport will be teaming up with climate justice campaigners in the public launch of the Adopt-a-Resident scheme. Like at Heathrow, the scheme aims to build solidarity and campaigning links and to send out a message that if the bulldozers come, they will have to deal with people from across Manchester standing together to protect people's homes and to protect the clmate.
Public launch - Sunday 7th February 2010
Hasty Lane 'Adopt a Resident' Launch
Sunday 7th February 2010
1pm - 3pm
Hasty Lane, next to Manchester Airport, WA15 8UT
What will the day involve?
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We'll have a grand tour of Hasty Lane, including the threatened houses and nearby wildlife spots. We'll introduce each other and have a live video link up with Sipson village near London Heathrow. There will be tea, cake and music.
What what what?
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In November 2009, Manchester City Council approved plans to bulldoze people's homes on Hasty Lane to expand the World Freight Centre at Manchester Airport.
Not only do these plans threaten people's homes, but the rising emissions from air freight also threaten the stability of the climate.
But we can stop them. We're inviting you to Adopt-a-Resident at Hasty Lane. Together, we can team up to rein in Manchester airport's climate wrecking expansion plans. Together, we'll also show that if the bulldozers come, they will have to deal with people from across Manchester standing together to protect people's homes and to protect our future.
At the same time, we'll be twinning Hasty Lane with Sipson village at Heathrow. Like Hasty Lane, Sipson is also threatened by airport expansion plans. A third runway at Heathrow would bulldoze around 400 homes.
With residents, supporters, campaigners and activists linking up across Manchester and across the country - we can stand together to protect people's homes and to protect our climate.
For more information, see:
http://stopmanchesterairport.blogspot.com/
or contact:
manchester@planestupid.com
TRANSPORT
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Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport will be organsing transport from central Manchester. To book your space email manchester@planestupid.com with the subject HASTY LANE.
Otherwise,TRAIN + BUS
Get the train to Manchester Airport transport interchange then either bus numbers 18 & 18A towards Hale Barns/ Altrincham. Get off at the top off Hasty lane.
take the TRAM to Altrincham interchange and take buses number 18 or 18a towards the Airport/Wythenshawe. Get off at the top off Hasty lane.
Sunday 7th February 2010
1pm - 3pm
Hasty Lane, next to Manchester Airport, WA15 8UT
What will the day involve?
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We'll have a grand tour of Hasty Lane, including the threatened houses and nearby wildlife spots. We'll introduce each other and have a live video link up with Sipson village near London Heathrow. There will be tea, cake and music.
What what what?
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In November 2009, Manchester City Council approved plans to bulldoze people's homes on Hasty Lane to expand the World Freight Centre at Manchester Airport.
Not only do these plans threaten people's homes, but the rising emissions from air freight also threaten the stability of the climate.
But we can stop them. We're inviting you to Adopt-a-Resident at Hasty Lane. Together, we can team up to rein in Manchester airport's climate wrecking expansion plans. Together, we'll also show that if the bulldozers come, they will have to deal with people from across Manchester standing together to protect people's homes and to protect our future.
At the same time, we'll be twinning Hasty Lane with Sipson village at Heathrow. Like Hasty Lane, Sipson is also threatened by airport expansion plans. A third runway at Heathrow would bulldoze around 400 homes.
With residents, supporters, campaigners and activists linking up across Manchester and across the country - we can stand together to protect people's homes and to protect our climate.
For more information, see:
http://stopmanchesterairport.blogspot.com/ or contact:
manchester@planestupid.com TRANSPORT
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Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport will be organsing transport from central Manchester. To book your space email
manchester@planestupid.com with the subject HASTY LANE. Otherwise,TRAIN + BUS
Get the train to Manchester Airport transport interchange then either bus numbers 18 & 18A towards Hale Barns/ Altrincham. Get off at the top off Hasty lane.
take the TRAM to Altrincham interchange and take buses number 18 or 18a towards the Airport/Wythenshawe. Get off at the top off Hasty lane.
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Private transport
10.01.2010 17:34
People who organise and run private transport (presumably by road), are being hypocritical if they choose to moan about how others travel around.
But then being green is often about being hypocritical as it is mainly a hobby of people who fail miserably to practice what they preach.
The average eco-aware person lives in the suburbs in a larger than average house, runs more vehicles and takes more flights than average, spends and consumes more than the average and often even buys cars for the kids when they go to college. Those inner city brownfield site homes a bus ride from work and those holidays in the UK are for the ignorant riff-rafff, not your average green who wants the good things in life including a home in a leafy area, a couple of nice cars on the drive, cultural hoilidays as a traveller, never a tourist, and a gap year for the children in far flung places just like the neighbours kids have.
Pete
Public/private transport
12.01.2010 12:32
If the campaign organisers can provide collective transport with a subsidy equal or more than GMPTE provides for the tram and train services then it’s better than giving money to profiteers like Arriva (who run the bus services mentioned) and Stagecoach (who’ve got the two main bus routes out of Manc city centre to the airport).
And it’s public transport in the sense that anyone can use it if they support the campaign. Clearly if the organisers had the marketing budget and infrastructure of GMPTE or the train and bus companies they could provide a service that was even more public. But they might not want to raise income by selling advertising space on bus shelters and the sides of buses to the likes of McDonalds, Coca-Cola and Easy Jet.
Btw getting into town courtesy of Stagecoach from my brownfield site 2 miles out of the centre costs £1.80 single. And how much does it cost to ferry people 6/7 miles out to the airport? Not £5.40.
Geoff
Please sign the e-petition to Downing Street. And stop trolling.
18.01.2010 01:56
"Manchester airport has seen its air freight halve since 2007, but despite this Manchester City Council has recently given approval to double the Airport's air freight capacity, demolishing two 200 year old family cottages and a large section of greenbelt land in the process.
We ask the Prime Minister to explain how the UK will meet it's carbon reduction target by 2050 if airports like Manchester continue to expand."
Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport