Nissan did bring much needed employment to the region but I was never a fan of it going on the chosen site. The site being an airfield which was to me by far the better location, being on the A19 corridor, to develop a regional airport. What the region ended up with is two airports sited remotely in the back of beyond and struggling to compete with each other. One more so than the other although the other benefited enormously from a metro link which was built to serve it. With a regional airport in my preferred location a metro link could have been built to serve the wider community as well as that airport, not least the people of Washington and those from the wider region who travel to work on one of Washington's several industrial estates.
