This policy statement shows that the two councils have no clear strategy for tackling the added congestion that expanded operations at the airport will cause. What is needed is a more vigorous, proactive strategy that provides for penalties as road traffic increase. The airport should be required to increase car parking charges, introduce drop off charges and offer rail discounts as a means of encouraging rail travel. These penalties and incentives should increase until the road traffic associated with increased operations at the airport have been brought down to capacity of the current road network.

Under no circumstances should the taxpayer be required to fund road widening or new road construction to facilitate a business that sucks so much money and employment out of the UK economy