Originally Posted by
Runway 32/14
The Atkins report means nothing! those figures are based on what!! certainly not facts! they are made up to show a negative impact! so they can justify not spending money in the North!! If this was a London regional airport they would justify spending billions to cater for 1000 passengers wouldn't they!!
Why does it mean "nothing"? You don't like it's conclusions, so you dismiss it as a conspiracy theory??
The whole issue of a rail link to LBA was beaten to death on this very forum about a year ago. Apart from a couple of hardcore LBA fanatics, it was generally accepted that the extra footfall through the airport would be too limited to justify the significant construction costs.
Money is tight nowadays, and vanity projects are quite rightly well down the priority list.