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Old September 20th, 2007, 09:01 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,misc.transport.urban-transit
David Horne, _the_ chancellor[_2_]
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Default Prague Metro Plans Extension To Airport + New Line

Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:

Jack Campin - bogus address writes:

What a colossal waste of money. Just about nobody uses the existing
bus services to get to anywhere in between the present terminus of
Line A and the airport.


That'll be because they're buses. A completely inferior mode of transport.


Not at all. If they're frequent and fast enough, people will take them.
The service from Manchester city centre to Liverpool airport (non-stop,
with 2 pick ups in town) is a good example. Very popular, and frequent
service- in fact the Italian company terravision entered the market in
competition with arriva, and the price has gone down, and the service
frequency has gone up, as has the hours of operation, meaning that
people use it for the very early and late flights which are a feature of
many low-cost routes. The 4am service from Manchester is always packed,
for example.

By contrast, I wouldn't dream of taking the bus to Manchester airport,
because it will stop in lots of places and take a lot longer than the
15-20 minutes the frequent trains from city centre stations will take...

I did it once, when there were rail engineering works going on. Luckily
it was was early on a Sunday morning, so either anyone got on or off,
but it was still tedious for the stops it did make, as well as the
slighly ciruitous route.

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