Liverpool Airport boss wants improved Welsh transport links
11.02.08
Development of improved rail and bus links between North Wales and Liverpool would encourage more travellers to use public transport to get to Liverpool Airport, the airport’s chairman, Robert Hough said.
Mr. Hough said that North Wales was a key catchment area for the airport and one that airport owners Peel Holdings was keen to tap into. He said 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 our North Wales catchment area to see Liverpool as their local regional airport. We want to create better connections between North Wales and the airport. We would like to see better bus links and secondly we would like 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 or £7m. We are talking to Network Rail and others about this. Ten percent of our passengers get to the airport by public transport and we would like to see that increase to 20%.’
Mr Hough said a £100m investment by Peel Holdings into a new terminal and other facilities at the airport since 1997 had made Liverpool the fastest growing airport in the UK over the past decade, with passenger numbers up from 700,000 to 5.5m.
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