Glasgow Airport boss enters rail link row
09.10.09
The managing director of Glasgow Airport has entered the row over the cancellation of the airport rail link, saying that she did not recognise the figure of £70m in additional costs used by the SNP Government to justify its decision to scrap the project.
In a letter to west of Scotland MSPs, airport boss Amanda McMillan said claims that the airport’s owners, BAA, would have received the extra funding directly as part of the development was ‘simply not the case’. She said: ‘The figure of £70m is not one we recognise. However, our understanding is that this cost is, in the main, associated with the reprovision of existing services and facilities, many of them operated by third parties.’
Responding to a parliamentary answer by First Minister Alex Salmond, she added: ‘The notion, as some have suggested, that the Scottish Government would have given BAA £70m ‘before an inch of railway line was laid’ is completely false.' She added: 'Any responsibility for underestimating the cost of the airport reprovision works is a matter for Transport Scotland. This was fundamentally their project.’
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