Airport boss wants better Welsh public transport links
11.02.08
Improved rail and bus links between North Wales and Liverpool would encourage more Welsh travellers to use public transport to get to Liverpool Airport, the airport’s chairman, Robert Hough said.
Mr. Hough said North Wales is a key catchment area for the airport and one that airport owners Peel Holdings was keen to tap into. About 5.5% of passengers through Liverpool Airport in the first nine months of last year were from Wales, up from 4% in 1999, with North Wales accounting for around 200,000 of the 220,000 Welsh travellers.
He said: ‘We want people in North Wales to see Liverpool as their local regional airport. We want to create better connections between the area and the airport. We would like to see better bus links and to open the Halton Curve which would enable a train from Llandudno to travel directly to Liverpool South Parkway, the station close to the airport.'
‘That would require the present Halton single track to be dualled to Runcorn at a cost of £6m - £7m. We are talking to Network Rail and others about this. 10% of our passengers get to the airport by public transport and we would like to see that increase to 20%.’
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