The historic - and, some say, surreal - new coalition government now running Great Britain has quickly put a stop to a string of new runway projects at London's airport.
Thousands, perhaps millions, will rejoice that plans for extra runways at London Heathrow and London Stansted were scrapped today by the new Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition.
Prime minister David Cameron and his former rival, now deputy, Nick Clegg also quickly axed the hugely controversial (at least as far as consumers and some in the travel industry are concerned) Air Passenger Duty, preferring to put the burden on the already under pressure airlines.
Nevertheless, the decision to halt development of new runways will end what have been two of the most vociferous and long-running campaigns against UK government transport policy for decades.
Residents and existing groups such as Greenpeace have spearheaded the campaigning and, for the first time, had the power of the web at their disposal.
A series of websites from campaign groups became the focal point for residents and other parties to create communities against proposals.
The impact of such sites has worked - the long-running StopStanstedExpansion site, for example, has featured highly in Google search for years.
More recently, social media has come to the fore.
A flashmob protest at the newly opened Terminal Five at London Heathrow in March 2008 was filmed and immediately put on YouTube immediately, since then attracting almost 70K views.
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Many Twitter users and blog owners will also have noticed how groups against expansion of London City Airport have tapped into the power of online monitoring, seeing their Tweets or posts instantly rebuffed or promoted to a wider audience.
There will, almost inevitably, be new projects to oppose.