I WAS delighted to see Donald Coutts' and Maurice Rodger's sensible and logical proposal (Letters, December 4) for a walkway linking the airport to a halt on the existing through Glasgow-Wemyss Bay rail line. I have had three letters published in these pages over the last 15 years or so advocating the same.
To their list of positives, I add mine: that studies have demonstrated greater take-up of rail travel to airports where the railway is a through line rather than a terminus; and that his moving walkway could alternatively be a light track with driverless moving pods like the ones linking the similar distance between Gatwick's north and south terminals.
Scott Macintosh
4 Alder Crescent, Killearn.
AT long last a letter from Messrs Coutts and Rodger with a financially and eminently practical solution to the Glasgow Airport link. A study of the OS map of the Glasgow area would have revealed the close proximity of the airport to the main Glasgow railway line.
Why has it taken so long for our planners besotted with expensive, prestige projects to see that such a sensible solution is possible?
Incidentally, on a recent visit to Edinburgh Airport I noticed a railway line passing the perimeter fence. We now have a £750 million tram link instead. Where is any sensible cost-effective planning available? Did the planners of the new Queensferry Crossing ever consider costing a tunnel, a solution frequently used in Norway which avoids all weather-related problems?
Robert H Rodger,
62 Nethercliffe Avenue, Netherlee, Glasgow.
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