Plans to treble the number of passengers flying from Luton Airport each year will make life miserable for people in South Beds, according to South West Beds MP Andrew Selous.
He has said that if the airport expands to cope with 30 million people taking flights every year it will cause huge noise issues, make traffic congestion even worse and create more pollution.
Mr Selous argues that improving the rail network around Europe would give families an affordable alternative to flying.
He said: "Rather than tax lower income families out of the skies, more plentiful, cheaper rail travel would enable people to holiday in Europe and travel on business without increasing the output of carbon.
"This makes sense locally for South West Bedfordshire, where some villages like Tebworth and Wingfield are already greatly affected by aircraft noise, as it does for the wider world.
"Thirty million passengers arriving at Luton Airport does not bear thinking about with our current inadequate transport infrastructure."
Mr Selous was told by the Minister for Europe, Geoff Hoon, that there's a big EU commitment to improving high speed rail links across the country.
Source: Bedford Today
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