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Author	Scunnered20
Comment	> At a time when GCR are looking at CD funding and both SG and constituent LAs are facing significant budget challenges, this will simply not take precedence. It's coming from Transport Scotland funding, likely over the course of 15-20 years. So, unless that's dramatically curtailed with TS funding redistributed to other parts of the government's budget, for whichever reason, I don't see why you have such strong expectations funding won't be provided? Granted anything can happen to national budgets. But it's high up in the priority list for infrastructure projects, so I don't really see where the scepticism comes from. Projects in STPR1 were identified at the very height of the financial crash when it was published in 2008. The great majority of them went on to be delivered. Edi-Gla rail electrification, M8 and A8 upgrading, the Queensferry Crossing, etc.
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Created	Sun 11th Dec 2022 4:59pm
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> At a time when GCR are looking at CD funding and both SG and constituent LAs are facing significant budget challenges, this will simply not take precedence.

It's coming from Transport Scotland funding, likely over the course of 15-20 years. So, unless that's dramatically curtailed with TS funding redistributed to other parts of the government's budget, for whichever reason, I don't see why you have such strong expectations funding won't be provided?

Granted anything can happen to national budgets. But it's high up in the priority list for infrastructure projects, so I don't really see where the scepticism comes from.

Projects in STPR1 were identified at the very height of the financial crash when it was published in 2008. The great majority of them went on to be delivered. Edi-Gla rail electrification, M8 and A8 upgrading, the Queensferry Crossing, etc.