Railway plans are ready to go
Successive studies have consistently confirmed that Crossrail offers a very robust business case, ticking all the social/economic and environment assessment boxes required.
Stage-one electrification of the existing 1.8-mile freight line across central Glasgow is a “shovel ready” and relatively inexpensive project, likely to be funded by Network Rail, and offering for the first time ever the major benefits of a direct coast-to-coast train service across central Scotland.
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Hide AdAs demonstrated elsewhere in Britain, temporary stations can be quickly erected for Crossrail, giving easy access to other lines and still attainable in time for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Ken Sutherland, Bearsden