RE: Express rail links from Cities to airports

For John Prescott to grant 3 billion to Manchesters Metrolink means they must be doing something right! Good luck to them.

I’m still searching the Liverpool Echo for Liverpools share or ambition.

Of course, Liverpool will have objective 1 money which as we know is not a prize for being smart! e.g. THE LIVERPOOL VISION REGENERATION EXHIBITION last May proposes to spend multi-millions on a Lime street station express rail-link direct to Mancheter airport bypassing liverpool airport by TWO MILES!

For Liverpool to fund its own unemployment with its OWN OBJECTIVE ONE money and surely lack of vision and hardly an integrated transport policy.

Sharing of the aviation prosperity which is due to double inside 10 yrs between the two international airports can be secured for Liverpool jobs by direct rail linking of both airports. Otherwise when Manchester reaches its movements capacity in 2006 it will seek, like Heathrow [daily telegraph 29th May 2000] to need another runway.

The Liverpool Echo has so far refused to print my comments as its not a campaigning newspaper UNLIKE the Manchester Evening News which is dynamic and braggs about being a factor in John Prescott’s generosity.

Liverpool Visionary Regeneration strategy [outline draft] pp31 item 15 throws in one million for a Manchester airport check-in at Lime Street station, without mentioning Speke airport again!

At 60000 feet both airports co-operate, on the ground …. !!!

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