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Old 21st Sep 2007, 20:24
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Buster the Bear
 
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Mickey Mouse! Travel to Chessy on the TGV. That is how to design a public transport terminus! Luton is certainly not like Paris Disney. Mickey Mouse has moved 'up market', clearly Luton has taken a dive in term of access, but the road infrastructure upgrades will deliver cars from the motorway much quicker to the queues to the 'drop off Tinminal area'!

The walk from CDG Terminal 3 to the CDGVAL is like walking from the departure lounge at Luton to Stand 1, but without the mad Parisian taxi drivers. Beds are provided en route courtesy of Ibis!

Hopefully the 'People Mover' concept proposed but cost engineered out of the Parkway, will surface once more, 20 years after its conception! Remember, folk would have been able to arrive at the Parkway, check in then take a 'rapid access train' to the departure lounge.

Designing a tinminal in a cul de sac was a wholly Town Hall endorsed project, but conceived in the early 1990's and certainly the thinking then was not to deliver 10 million + passengers to the central area.
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