SNP rejected Network Rail offer to save Glasgow Airport rail link
10.02.10
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney rejected an offer by Network Rail to save the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (Garl) immediately after the project was cancelled last September, the Herald reports. Opposition politicians who had called for the re-instatement of the project described the disclosure as ‘astonishing’.
The suggestion is reported to have come from Iain Coucher, chief executive of Network Rail, in a telephone conversation with Mr Swinney in the days after the cancellation of the airport link, amid anger from businesses and Labour politicians in the west of Scotland.
A newspaper 'source close to ministers' confirmed an offer had been made, saying: ‘John Swinney was approached by Network Rail around the time that Garl was cancelled with an offer to use its own borrowing powers to fund it. It was rejected because it was felt that this would jeopardise funding for other projects which are being paid for by Network Rail borrowing.’
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