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[textarea]No plans to upgrade Belfast Airport road
Passengers making their way to Belfast international Airport will find themselves caught behind tractors and other countryside traffic for the next decade or more, the News Letter reports. It has established that there are still no plans to build a motorway or major new access route to Northern Ireland's biggest airport.
Politicians, airlines and other businesses have all called for an urgent upgrade of approach roads, amid fears that the airport could become secondary to Belfast City Airport. But the Department of Regional Development (DRD) only has minor plans, involving possible overtaking lanes.
The issue has come to the fore again after easyJet’s decision to transfer its Luton service from Belfast International to the Belfast City, nearer the city centre. MLA Danny Kinahan told the newspaper: ‘Belfast International Airport 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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Passengers making their way to Belfast international Airport will find themselves caught behind tractors and other countryside traffic for the next decade or more, the News Letter reports. It has established that there are still no plans to build a motorway or major new access route to Northern Ireland's biggest airport.
Politicians, airlines and other businesses have all called for an urgent upgrade of approach roads, amid fears that the airport could become secondary to Belfast City Airport. But the Department of Regional Development (DRD) only has minor plans, involving possible overtaking lanes.
The issue has come to the fore again after easyJet’s decision to transfer its Luton service from Belfast International to the Belfast City, nearer the city centre. MLA Danny Kinahan told the newspaper: ‘Belfast International Airport 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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