MSPs want improved airport access
28.12.11
The Scottish Government is to consider new calls to improve transport links to Glasgow Airport, more than 2 years after a rail link from the city centre to the hub was axed, with the SNP Government blaming budget cuts, the Herald reports. Scotland's transport Minister, Keith Brown, is to meet local SNP MSPs Hamza Yousef and Derek Mackay, who want a number of different options to be considered to ease the bottlenecks that frequently plague the M8 – the main access route for the airport.
The MSP's proposals include building a ‘tram-train’ that could travel along light rails from the airport to St James station in Paisley, then on existing lines to Glasgow; a dedicated bus lane on the M8 and extension of the Fastlink rapid bus transit scheme from Glasgow, which is currently planned to terminate in Renfrew.
The meeting will be the first time improving access to the airport has been considered by the Scottish Government since the cancellation of the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (Garl) in 2009. While potentially far cheaper than Garl, which was to cost £210m, the three options would still require significant investment and each has significant drawbacks, the newspaper reports.
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