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travel to airport
Binge-flying is with us for the time being, so at least get people on public transport to get to the airport. In Scotland you get half-price rail travel to and from Prestwick airport from any station in Scotland on day of flight, and possibly (depends which website you read) free rail travel to Prestwick for the first 6 months of any new air service. The fares are subsidised by Prestwick itself. If it's a web booking, you just show your printout. It means Prestwick to Glasgow Central, bought off the conductor, is £2.95.
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lake district to london
From January 2009, a Pendolino journey from Oxenholme in the Lake District to London Euston will take 2 hours 34 minutes. The French TGV speeds may be very impressive, but if Branson can squeeze that sort of journey time out of the existing UK network then it makes a dedicated high-speed network for the UK look pretty dubious beside small measures to further chip away at journey times. Maybe a concensus on rail is beginning to form around a viewpoint expressed by Tom Riordan of Yorkshire Forward talking about the Eddington Report published in December 2006: "We can already get to London from Leeds in two hours ten, and making better use of the existing system seems sensible."
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