The Luton DART - The Creation of a Speedy New Airport Transfer
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- čas přidán 14. 12. 2022
- The Luton DART (Direct-Air-Rail-Transit) is a driverless airport transfer, built to replace the existing bus shuttle, transporting passengers between Luton Airport Parkway Station and London Luton Airport. This will encourage people to travel by rail, minimising congestion on the roads, which will have a wider social, accessible and sustainable impact on Luton and the surrounding areas.
So pleased this has been built.
When is the Luton DART (Direct-Air-Rail-Transit) due to open. As we are in 2023.
shame they didn’t build a line eastwards to Stevenage to link up with the East Coast Main Line
Good video clip. How long is it? In Imperial if possible.
2 km long with a 40 m elevation difference.
We need more rail projects in every part of the country. This is a great small step in the right direction on a local scale, but our wider dependence on cars cannot be allowed to continue. The current rail strikes show a fundamental problem with the way the railway is treated in this country, which ultimately stems from the government wanting to crush the rail industry (and they've more or less succeeded) so that the automotive industry can exponentially grow, completely unchallenged. Our government has no regard for the good of the people, they only pursue lining their own pockets with bribes from huge corporations.
Northern Ireland has horrible railways for 20 years with 60 year old trains but in the past 5-10 years there have been major developments. New modern walk through trains 10 years ago, many new stations being built and modernised. Also proposals to reopen old railway lines to airports too instead of just the bus. And the new grand central station in belfast is truly extraordinary. I hope the west of NI gets some railways too and the rest of the UK and IRELAND.
We’re just getting on with it: czcams.com/video/I8PAmaNs2y4/video.html&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
I'm pleased that Luton Airport is getting a link to the main railway station, but why revert to a technology that was generally abandoned in the early part of the 20th Century? Who else uses cable haulage now?
I would be interested to see the quotations that were received for the construction of this system and how they compare with tried and tested systems used in most other airports around the world.
I would guess that a single failure could bring the entire system to a standstill, whereas conventional electrically powered vehicles could still be used on the parallel line. We shall see.
Zurich Airport, one of the leading airports in Europe, uses cable haulage for their airport transfer train! A bunch of Swiss railways do. It's really reliable and cost-effective if you have a relatively simple back-and-forth network like this.
Not far from Luton, Birmingham Air-Rail Link switched to cable haulage, because it was cheaper than remediating obsolescence issues on the Maglev shuttle operating between 1984 and 1995.
I wonder how much over budget and over due was like all luton council projects.
It was meant to have cost £200m and be opened in 2020 according to the BBC. It is now costing £281m and won’t open until 2023.
No mention that the project has to date cost the council taxpayer £281m but has been independently valued at only £77m with the rest being written off. The best bit is that those that have paid for it won’t actually use it.
Cry more
wasted so much money coudlve acc improved luton with
we can build are own thing's now are brexit has got done.
Luton voted for Brexit, but chose a Dutch company and Austrian technology to build the DART.
When your dirty company is it’s only fan 😬
What an irresponsible waste of money the airport or the council do not have, Luton airport is now seen as a failing cash cow for which the residents of Luton will ultimately suffer. No money for important things like filling in potholes in the roads.
have the Council funded this ?
@@rockerjim8045 Loans.
What a waste of money. Could've built a proper train for about ⅔ the money, and that would've meant that if you needed more or replacement rolling stock you could have got it from anywhere in the world - instead of only from one Spanish and one French manufacturer that makes this sort of glorified bus.