Heathrow Growth Would Kill More People Than New Hub, MIT Says
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Building a third runway at BAA Ltd.’s London Heathrow airport would lead to more early deaths from pollution than constructing a new airport in the Thames Estuary, U.S. researchers said.
Expanding Heathrow, Europe’s busiest hub, would lead to about 150 premature deaths from pollution per year in 2030, up from 50 today, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers said in a study on the school’s website. Replacing Heathrow with a new hub in the mouth of the Thames River would cause 50 annual deaths, according to the paper.