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Bikes against Bulldozers Heathrow lie-in

Heathrow, London. Sun 8 Dec 2019



 Extinction Rebellion had planned to hold their protest on this roundabout, but police stopped them reaching it

 A van had brought the digger to the pub car park on the A4 above the roundabout

 and the cyclists arrive from Hyde Park Corner, led by two police cyclists

 

 They stopped at the lights. Police were blocking their path down to the roundabout and they had to ride

 straight on.

 The ride ended on the bridge which takes the A4 over the road into Heathrow

 

 

 The roundabout with the plane on it was below them

 A tractor arrived to go with the digger shovel

 

 Among the protesters was one of the XR hunger strikers who have been protesting outside the Party HQs

 

 

 The sound system had been fitted as a mock bulldozer and had been cycled to the protest

 

 There were a large number of police and police vehicles, some parked around the mock aircraft

 which is an airline advert.

 The banner 'Flight Reductions Not Airport Expansion' was fixed to the bridge

 

 Christine Taylor, one of the local residents who has been fighting Heathrow Expansion for over 20 years talks

 to some of the cyclists

 Her mother and a few other local residents had come to the protest

 

 The shovel was in place in front of the tractor, but we had to wait while the cyclists had a rest and and some lunch

 

 Her family moved from Bedfont to Harmondsworth many years ago - she remembers the area before Heathrow
 became an airport - it was falsely begun as a military airport in the closing years of the war so it could become
 a civil airport.

 

 Stewards stand along the edge of the nearside lane

 and people begin the lie-in

 Some try to block both lanes with the XR banner, but police rush in and push them back

 'Reflect/Rebel/Relinquish' is I think the message on the banner

 

 

 

 More police rush up and form a line in front of the protesters

 while others wave the traffic past

 

 

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