THE new £2 drop-off system at Glasgow Airport has been branded as an "accident waiting to happen" by motorists who had to queue on the M8 to get into it.
Outraged passengers voiced their anger on social media about the tailbacks they experienced while they tried to access the new multi-million pound traffic layout at Scotland's busiest airport.
Drivers dropping passengers off now have to pay £2 for a stay of up to 10 minutes.
The new charges came into effect last week. The changes were said to the be final step in a wider scheme of works to reduce congestion and improve the flow of traffic on the airport’s road network.
However, the plans seems to have had the opposite effect with angry travellers complaining about increased traffic and queues as a result.
@GLA_Airport did your consultants envisage queues on M8 and doubling journey time to the airport? What a mess #glasgowairport
— Nick Cousins (@cousni) 2 May 2017
New Glasgow airport parking is a joke. 30 minute + queue on the motorway and get to pay an extra £2 for it. 👍🏼
— Alice Stelfox (@alicestelfox_) 2 May 2017
Others feared that someone "will get killed" as a result of the excess traffic.
@GLA_Airport absolute joke with new drop off at #glasgowairport today. Someone will get killed with excess traffic on M8
— Alan Burns (@alanburns34) 2 May 2017
@glasgowairport One lane to get into Car Park 2 and the new pick up drop off FFS #welldoneEinstein
— Derek McIntyre (@derekmc1ntyre) 2 May 2017
Once again, queue on to M8 slip road to access car park 2 at Glasgow Airport. Not good at 5.30am.
— Angela Bonomy (@abonomy) 2 May 2017
It was also branded as an "accident waiting to happen".
@glasgowairport,what a farce the new drop off point is, has traffic backing up in the M8! Accident waiting to happen and it's only 5.50am.
— Martin McCue (@Martin6367) 2 May 2017
Traffic Scotland also tweeted a snapshot of the congestion on the busy M8.
Slight queue #M8 J28 Glasgow Airport ✈ on the exit slip.
— Traffic Scotland (@trafficscotland) 2 May 2017
Car park is now closed to ease the queue 👍#Glasgow pic.twitter.com/uotJ55ZYmX
Glasgow Airport have since apologised for the delays which they blamed on "unusually high" volumes of traffic entering the airport.
@p8aek Hi Paul, it seems to have been unusually high. The queues lasted for approx 30mins and we'll look at what happened
— Glasgow Airport (@GLA_Airport) 2 May 2017
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