Councillor calls on Leeds Bradford Airport to axe drop off charge
18.11.11
A £10,000 scheme to stop people driving to Leeds Bradford Airport parking on nearby residential streets will simply move the problem to other areas, a councillor has said. The plans to keep roads free of parked cars along Victoria Avenue and Bayton Lane, in Yeadon, have been welcomed by residents, but Guiseley and Rawdon councillor Paul Wadsworth has said that it will only shift the problem into other areas and has called on the airport to axe its drop off charge.
The road restrictions have been given the go-ahead by council officers acting on delegated powers. They will be paid for with money given to the council by the airport. Councillor Wadsworth said: ‘Obviously, I’m pleased that this work is going to go ahead because it will make life that little bit easier for people living near the airport. What concerns me is the ripple effect, that the problem will simply be shunted from around Victoria Avenue to somewhere else in the airport’s surroundings, particularly in my ward of Guiseley and Rawdon.'
‘This scheme doesn’t solve the problem, it merely moves it. The underlying problem is the airports insistence on continuing with the drop off charge that penalises people for using the airport. The airport is paying the £10,000 cost of these works – why don’t they axe the £2 drop off charge, then they wouldn’t have to pay for schemes like this, because people could drive to the terminal building to drop off and pick up relatives without disturbing the local community.’
The drop off charge was introduced this year and means there is a minimum £2 fee for anyone who wants to pick up or drop off friends and family outside the terminal. The airport has introduced a free drop-off service in the long-stay car parks, about half-a-mile from the terminal, and a shuttle bus takes passengers to the terminal and back.
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