| Comment | > Look at things like the Glasgow airport rail link for example, most people agree it’s s good idea and it was probably first mentioned around the millennium but yet here we are with nothing new.
In some ways I do understand people's fatigue with consultations, but it's important to not lump everything into one pile of 'abandoned for no good reason or laziness'.
GARL (in its mid-2000s form) was abandoned because although it made it through a couple of layers of proposal and evaluation, on further scrutiny it wasn't a great idea. At least not as a project to be done in isolation, which is how it was being proposed. It would've meant a heavy-rail service for the airport, sure, but it would have used a stub line coming off the Inverclyde lines. This would have directly interfered with Inverclyde and Ayrshire services to Glasgow via Paisley Gilmour Street: limiting the number of trains per hour possible for Inverclyde & Ayrshire routes *and* trains-per-hour for the airport itself. The newer metro plans have been developed with this in mind, proposing a range of alternative routes which would avoid creating a bottleneck at Paisley GS. |
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