££££'s spent on nicely coloured bus lanes. Two laned free flowing traffic has been replaced by 1 empty (bus) lane and a congested car lane at busy times of the day. In 10 years of operating at Gatwick I had previously never seen traffic through the tunnel.
This was done by local authority to do with the Fastlane bus service.
The bus service previously went under the Terminal but as a result of the genuine securirty concerns associated with suicide bombings. Lets face it driving buses and trucks on a public road underneath a terminal is kind of a risk. Not to forget the guys picked up in 2003/4 from Crawley as members of Al Q including one I believe who worked at Gatwick. Agree that the lane idea sucks.
There has been quite a bit of work done on passengers areas / car parks but thats only to do some of the investment that BAA refused to do pre Ferrovial.
Always nice though when walking into Arrivals in South Terminal to see way way up high above the Lifts to Yotel/Lounges the Rabbit Telecom sign 16 years after service ceased.
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