...worth looking at the Development concept aerial prospective link
Yet another half ~ no, it's completely baked ~ plan from Luton Borough Council.
A multi-story car park designed to serve LTN having a capacity of 5000 cars sited on a combined business park/residential development with a single access/exit onto Kimpton Road just won't work.
You only have to look at similar business park/residential development sites to see the queues of traffic weekdays trying to get in between 8.15am and 9am, and trying to get out again between 4.30pm and 6pm, to realise that LTN's airline passengers using the facility during 'rush hours' are not going to find this concept efficient or user-friendly.
What's required is a second access/exit point that primarily serves the car park combined with bus lanes to enable public services and airport-related buses to avoid being caught up in the traffic.
The next step will no doubt be to ban all private vehicles (public and airport-related staff but excluding vehicles owned by disabled drivers) from the airport site and to require everyone to catch a shuttle bus to/from the central terminal area or other worksite on the Airport.
Judging by the Kimpton Road proposal, if you live locally it'd be quicker to walk and if not, to catch the train to Luton Airport Parkway station and take your bike.
Which is probably the Council's cunning master plan...
