Work starts on Glasgow Airport rail link viaduct
15.06.07
Work to provide temporary football pitches and facilities across Renfrewshire during construction of the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL) has started following the appointment of a sports facilities contractor.
Funded by Transport Scotland, GARL promoter Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) intends to build a viaduct crossing St James Playing Fields in Paisley as part of the project to connect Glasgow city centre with the airport. Construction work at the playing fields will mean 11 of the 22 pitches on the site become unavailable - so SPT has agreed to make replacements available at 7 sites across the county during the period it takes to build the viaduct.
Souters Sports has won a contract worth £1.5m to provide the temporary pitches and facilities after a three-way tender. These pitches will all be of league standard and work has already begun on two sites at Quarrelton Road in Johnstone. After the viaduct is completed 20 pitches will be available at St James Playing Fields. Two more will be provided at Ferguslie Park.
The Glasgow Airport Rail Link Bill was granted Royal Assent in January and involves upgrading 5.4 miles of track between Shields Junction and Paisley Gilmour Street station and laying 1.2 miles of new track between Paisley St James station and Glasgow Airport. The new track will cross the M8 motorway and St James Park via a new viaduct. A new platform will be built at Glasgow Central station and new track laid at the Elderslie sidings.
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