No plans to upgrade Belfast International road link
28.10.09
Passengers travelling to Belfast international Airport will find themselves caught behind tractors and other country traffic for the next decade or more, the News Letter reports. It has discovered that there are no plans to build a motorway or major new access route to Northern Ireland's biggest airport.
Politicians, airlines and business leaders have all called for an urgent upgrade of the airport's approach roads, amid fears that it could become secondary to Belfast City Airport. But the Department of Regional Development (DRD) only has minor plans, the newspaper reports, involving possible overtaking lanes.
The issue has come to the fore again after easyJet announced a decision to transfer its Luton service from Belfast International to the Belfast City, nearer the city centre. The budget airline said that it could expand routes from City, obviously at the expense of International routes.
MLA Danny Kinahan told the newspaper: ‘Belfast International is an invaluable asset which is being held back by inadequate transport links into the city, to the M2 and indeed to the M1.'
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