| Comment | Not pie in the sky. The current council clearly wants it to happen. Whether the Strathclyde Tram, or an Airport Rail Link, or other ambitions for reopening old rail lines - many ideas have come and gone over the last 30-40 years or so. The common problem was they often *were* not much more than vague proposals, or unfortunately came too soon, when such plans were run through the Scottish Office, not the Scottish Parliament.
This is different. It's a concrete proposal as mapped out by the Connectivity Commission in 2019, which itself, I think, was only launched by the council because they had more or less this "metro network" vision in mind, and wanted to give it an "independent" public platform for widespread attention. That succeeded, and now Transport Scotland have picked it up in their big infrastructure overview for the next 15 years or so.
https://www.transport.gov.scot/publication/update-and-phase-1-recommendations-february-2021-stpr2/ |
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