Scottish Government ministers have confirm they have ditched their plans to build a high-speed rail link between Glasgow and Edinburgh. How about investing the money in improving rail services in the North East? Local stations? More trains? An Ellon-Peterhead-Fraserburgh link? Maybe even Banchory? Get folk off the roads and into trains.
It is worth remembering that in November 2012 Nicola Sturgeon announced the Scottish Government would be taking forward the plans for a high-speed rail link between Glasgow and Edinburgh by 2024, saying they ‘would not wait’ for Westminster to deliver HS2 north of the border and would be ‘firing ahead’ with its own plans. But transport minister Derek Mackay has now said it is not possible to progress planning for a high-speed rail link between the two cities until a cross-border high-speed route is identified.
I could not see the rationale anyway in a high speed link between the two cities. The trains would have had to start slowing down before they got to top speed!