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How many airports are accessible by Tube?
We all know Luton isn't London even if the airport name claims it is, but adding it to the London Underground however would make a lot of sense. As more airports become accessible by Tube, giving Luton Airport a Tube station would make everyone's lives easier and catching flights much cheaper.
People up North would hate this after the cuts to HS2 but it actually makes sense, London tube network extension to St Albans & Luton. Help reduce commute traffic to London.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/trans...ondon-27927784
East West got the Elizabeth Line.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/trans...ondon-27927784
East West got the Elizabeth Line.
But if London wanted London would probably get.
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Pointless. Where would the stations go? Harpenden, St Albans Radlett etc, towns that already have rail links.
It’s bad enough catching the all station stopper to St Pancras that takes 45 minutes but feels like 3 days and gives a taster of what’s it like to catch a train from Stansted of worse still Southend to Liverpool Street.
And Luton and Gatwick has got Thamelink, which has direct links to around 20 London station.
It’s bad enough catching the all station stopper to St Pancras that takes 45 minutes but feels like 3 days and gives a taster of what’s it like to catch a train from Stansted of worse still Southend to Liverpool Street.
East West got the Elizabeth Line.
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Did you know that Mill Hill East terminus was originally to go to Mill Hill, Edgware East, Brockley Hill, Elstree South and ending at Bushey Heath.
The Edgware Terminus actually has abandoned tunnels into the Hill.
I think the Author was thinking more about the High Barnet terminus, West of Potters Bar, Colney Heath, between St Albans & Hatfield and north to join the old line round Wheathampsted, Batford and onto Luton, past Luton Parkway's door.
I know it will never happen but would pull a good number of cars off the roads down the M1 & A1M currently.
The Edgware Terminus actually has abandoned tunnels into the Hill.
I think the Author was thinking more about the High Barnet terminus, West of Potters Bar, Colney Heath, between St Albans & Hatfield and north to join the old line round Wheathampsted, Batford and onto Luton, past Luton Parkway's door.
I know it will never happen but would pull a good number of cars off the roads down the M1 & A1M currently.
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Luton Airport Parkway’s location used to have an east west rail link passing through the stations forecourt that joined 3 main lines from Leighton Buzzard and the West Coast main line to Welwyn and the East Coast main line.
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A service like the tube is about having a high frequency service with stops spaced short distances apart and not travelling very far. It does not work well if people travel long distances... such as the former Bakerloo line extending from central London all the way out to Watford Junction.
Travellers between London and Luton / Luton Parkway are best served by a service with fewer stops that travel at higher speeds between stations... a bit like the French RER or even Thameslink. A service to London that runs every 3 minutes but take 90 minutes to reach central London because it stops at every village is unlikely to see many passengers. The tube isn't there to provide high frequency service between Luton and Harpenden.
Travellers between London and Luton / Luton Parkway are best served by a service with fewer stops that travel at higher speeds between stations... a bit like the French RER or even Thameslink. A service to London that runs every 3 minutes but take 90 minutes to reach central London because it stops at every village is unlikely to see many passengers. The tube isn't there to provide high frequency service between Luton and Harpenden.
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Someone been into Car Park in what appears to be an attempt to retrieve possessions from a car trapped in Car Park.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/244884...car-park-fire/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/244884...car-park-fire/
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I made an incorrect statement in saying a mobile crane was erecting a tower crane. They are in fact both mobile cranes.
One crane contains a cage that contains the recovery crew. The crew are strapped to the cage.
The other crane is doing the lifting.
This car looks intact but careful examination will show the plastic that covers the bottom of the doors has melted
As suspected, passengers are now walking in the road to and from the mid term
One crane contains a cage that contains the recovery crew. The crew are strapped to the cage.
The other crane is doing the lifting.
This car looks intact but careful examination will show the plastic that covers the bottom of the doors has melted
As suspected, passengers are now walking in the road to and from the mid term
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As suspected, passengers are now walking in the road to and from the mid term
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Noticed in the ACL LTN S24 declaration (apologies if it has been discuss before).
LLA is expecting a decision on its planning application to grow to 19mppa in October 2023 (subject to change).
• If LLA* obtains planning permission which it deems to be acceptable, and which lawfully permits LLA to allow up to 19 million commercial air passengers to travel through the airport within any 12 month period, LLA will release the following capacity as T-coded slots, this will be released no later than 15th January 2024.
• 3 additional code C stands, taking the total Code C stands to 45.
• 457,158 additional PATM, taking the total PATM available to 13,337,158.
Will this stop the leakage of some FlyOne & SunExpress services to STN or just give the major players more wiggle room? Can see Wizzair wanting to up Istanbul, the Turkish Airport are on record wanting to encourage more ULC operations and not rely totally on Turkish airlines to drive their ambitions.
LLA is expecting a decision on its planning application to grow to 19mppa in October 2023 (subject to change).
• If LLA* obtains planning permission which it deems to be acceptable, and which lawfully permits LLA to allow up to 19 million commercial air passengers to travel through the airport within any 12 month period, LLA will release the following capacity as T-coded slots, this will be released no later than 15th January 2024.
• 3 additional code C stands, taking the total Code C stands to 45.
• 457,158 additional PATM, taking the total PATM available to 13,337,158.
Will this stop the leakage of some FlyOne & SunExpress services to STN or just give the major players more wiggle room? Can see Wizzair wanting to up Istanbul, the Turkish Airport are on record wanting to encourage more ULC operations and not rely totally on Turkish airlines to drive their ambitions.
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If you read the planning inspectors report nothing is going to change regarding the 18m limit until all the planning conditions are met and that isn’t going to happen anytime soon, as they are not quick fixes.
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How can Luton be going for 3rd slot https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...irport-london/ when Stansted already approved for 43m and Manchester 50m?
Wish reporters would do a little more basic homework.
Wish reporters would do a little more basic homework.
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Personally a rather poor article badly written coming from someone who used to write for a living. How an accidental car park fire be associated with how an airport operates. I notice we had the usual nimby's complaining again. The airport first opened in the 1930s and has had a concrete runway since 1960 so those complaining haven't got a leg to stand on. My late father said ' never buy a property near a river son it may look lovely in the summer but rivers flood'.
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My late father said ' never buy a property near a river son it may look lovely in the summer but rivers flood'.
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