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High-speed rail link a pipe dream

The proposed high-speed rail link between Glasgow and Edinburgh is another plan containing similar hare-brained schemes to the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Project (EGIP) proposals ("New high-speed intercity rail vow", The Herald, November 13).

Some, but not all, have been retained in the watered-down £650 million version. The high-speed vow, as it is termed, is something drawn up on the back of a fag packet. The map was full of errors as regards present-day rail lines. The photo call of Nicola Sturgeon in the cab of a Pendolino at Glasgow Central was another distraction from major issues on hoped for transport projects that are being woefully dealt with by Holyrood.

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