The Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL) will not proceed with its selected project, declared the SNP administration. The £650 million link plan that was expected to connect the airport to the city centre and 60 railway stations, have been devolved in support of recuperating other areas of transport.
The Edinburgh and East Coast would have been sidetracked to Glasgow rail lines through the airport via an underground tunnel by EARL.
It is hoped that an additional railway station will necessarily be built at Gogar in an offer to improve links to the airport. However, no final decision has been taken to get this project completed. In the recent news, it has been mentioned that around £30 million has already been spent on the link work and the project has been disapproved by the present authorities.
"If anyone is to blame for this it is the previous administration which pushed this through without a thorough options appraisal", Colin Howden, director of transport lobby group Transform Scotland, told the Scotsman.
He further said: "It was a bad project, arguably a vanity project that was complete overkill. For that £30 million wasted you could have built a station at Gogar, but it is money down the drain".
It can be easily said that the decision needs a re-looking and re-consideration about it, as so much of money has already been put into it. However, it is all in the hands of authorities.
