Friday, 9 December 2011
Airtrack? No, but Oyster-tastic!
Rare journey to Heathrow. Not that easy getting from South West London to Heathrow – the now dead Airtrack scheme was meant to make this easier by rail. However, for those that are in the know a train from Clapham Junction followed by the 285 bus to Heathrow Central is remarkably quick and easy. Slight hike from Heathrow Central to terminals, but all underground. What now makes this so much easier is the fact you can use Oyster for the whole journey. No more fiddling around with buying separate rail tickets, not knowing when you will exactly come back – simple, just swipe and you know what you are in for.
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Feltham-Heathrow is certainly as good as most folk need to connect - buses are good and bike is even better. heathrow now has Cycle Hub as part of Heathrow Commuter plan - unfortunately on North side but <20min bike ride from moment you arrive at Feltham, and roughly same from Hounslow.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we can encourage cyclists to ride in and the Cycle Hub to promote long term cycle parking for air passengers (use ride free zone for any passing bus into departure terminal area. Might even be possible to hire a bike ride to main line rail for trains to South-West West/Midlands as well as Central London termini.
You should also see the huge boost to patronage of Heathrow Connect delivered by underwriting a fares cut to Heathrow workers (potentially a substantial portion of the 180,000 trips made to & from work made by the 90,000+ workers on the site) Workers can now get 75% discount on rail fares using Heathrow Connect, and underwriting the risk of losses made it possible for rail operation (part BAA anyway) to take this risk. As it happens the growth in numbers delivered a boosted income and the support was not required for an extended period.