Ashford International Airport (UK)

London Ashford Airport it is located in 2,2 km to the northeast from the city of Lidd and in 22,2 km to the south from city Ashford (Kent, Southeast England).

Ashford International Station

The airport has the licence (number P858) for performance of passenger transportations and training of pilots. At the airport airline Lydd Air is based. Near to the airport the Ashford Railway Station is located.

In the airport mullions-strong investments into a new building of the terminal and runway increase are planned. The new terminal can serve 500,000 passengers in a year. The increase in a runway not only will allow larger planes to land at the airport, but also will allow what are maintained today, to fly with the big payload and a fuel considerable quantity.

Plans concerning the new terminal and runway increase have been presented local parliament.
These plans have caused protests at local and national level as the negative ecological effect on local reserves is expected.

In the future start of high-speed trains from station Ashford International which will reach London for 35 minutes is planned.

Ashford Railway Station

Ashford International Station is an optimum variant of a trip to France through La Manche.

The contributions of the servise for the town of Grenoble

THE REYNIER-VERLAINE VIADUCT

In order to ensure service to the urban development zone, and to improve traffic conditions in the Southern part of the town, the key plan of the Urban Group of the town of GRENOBLE made by Henry BERNARD, included the building of a new East-West road, using part of the expropriations of the roads Louise MICHEL, Albert REYNIER and Paul VERLAINE, and linking the motorway B 48 (right bank of the river Drac) to the new Southern centre of the town.

The town of GRENOBLE decided in 1965 to build this road which was so important for serving the Olympic Village and the Coach station. After preliminary studies, it was decided to give the new road two single direction lanes, each with three tracks, separated by a central earth platform.

GRENOBLE-VEYNES and GRENOBLE-MONTMELIAN

Crossing over the R.N. 75 (cours de la Liberation) and the railway lines S.N.C.F. GRENOBLE-VEYNES and GRENOBLE-MONTMELIAN, the new artery is continued by a construction in a straight line 540 m long which includes:

— two approach slopes 107 m long to the West and 118,40 m to the East;
— a viaduct 102 m long crossing to the West, the cours de la Liberation and its side lanes;
— a viaduct 112,625 m long crossing to the East the railway lines and the rue Général Mangin;
— between the two viaducts a platform between the retaining walls, flanked by two slopes linking the R.N. 75 to the Eastern side of the new road.

There are, besides the liaisons with the R.N. 75, two intersections permitting exchanges with the roads BEAUMARCHAIS, Louise MICHEL, and AMPÈRE. Two underground passages for pedestrians were planned in the South part, near a densely populated zone (Paul MISTRAL district) the stadium and the BACHELARD park.

The work was begun in July 1966 and was completed in December 1967. The total cost was 11 million Francs.

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