IT is annoying to find the Glasgow Airport rail link (Garl) in the news again in the guise of the Aecom transport study so soon after it appeared that the project had been shelved ("Expert study puts airport rail link for Glasgow back on table", The Herald, August 26).
Road congestion on the M8 is often cited as justification for creating the rail link to Glasgow Airport yet a blind eye is turned to the fact that the adjacent Braehead Shopping Centre has a greater footfall and the dormitory towns of Renfrew and Erskine which abut the airport fence have no rail links to anywhere, never mind just Glasgow. Why is there no similar clamour to link these major sources of road traffic to the rail network?
I doubt that anybody has ever been put off visiting Scotland for business or pleasure simply because there is no rail link between the airport and Glasgow. I cannot understand why public funds are being expended by Transport Scotland and Glasgow and Renfrewshire councils to rake over the ashes of a project that has already been rejected.
It is time that we accepted that much of the improvements in infrastructure and the apparent benefits of the consumer society boom that we have witnessed in the last 20 years have been funded by credit at the expense of the country being essentially bankrupt with the National Debt exceeding GNP. If we have public money to spend (which we do not) there are more needy causes.
David J Crawford,
Flat 3/3 131 Shuna Street, Glasgow.
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