White Elephant

E15,000,000 Blephant You may have heard about the proposed rail spur from the existing Vale line to Cardiff Airport. Did you know this may result in trains carrying less than 5 passengers each? The Vale Here's how we worked it out. 1,200,000 Passengers flew from or to Cardiff Airport in 2011 3288 per day to Assuming it was a great success, 15% IP of passengersmight use the rail linkt P "based on figures from Newcastle, one of the UK's most successful rail connected airports. 493 passengers per day making use of the rail link 51 Trains per day A total of 102 journeys Stuart Cole Professor of Transport and former Director of the Wales Transport Research Centre at the University of Glamorgan talks of 3 or 4 trains an hour. But we'll assume only 3 trains per hour for 17 hours a day. 493 passengers ÷ 102 Journeys 4.83 passengers per journey STOP THE SPUR stopthespur.org White :mds Line Pand.