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Airport rail link was less important than motorway links says Swinney

20 November 2009
 

Scottish finance secretary John Swinney has defended his proposal to cancel the Glasgow Airport Rail Link, telling MSPs that it is a “desirable” project but not one that is essential to Scotland’s economy.

“The Glasgow Airport rail link was certainly a desirable project but not an essential project for the infrastructure of the country in the same way as the completion of the M74 link [in southern Glasgow] is significant or the M80 [between Stepps?and Haggs],”...

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