On Mar 27, 7:26*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
Much of the scheme looks like a great big sop to
somehow cope with demand for air travel as a result of the government's
cockeyed aviation policy. *Not sure that is quite the right way to be
framing rail policy.

Indeed. There's an obsession with emissions (NOx and CO2) from surface
access to airports, but a total head in the sand approach to the real
problem of aviation's environmental impact, set to worsen under this
government's 'predict and provide' policy.