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Article: Commuters left waiting for Glasgow link to Edinburgh Park Anger building at Transport Scotland's "inaction" Anger building at Transport Scotland's "inaction" TRAINS: CONNECTING
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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FIVE years after the construction of a GBP4.3 million Edinburgh
Park station on the capital's western outskirts, business leaders
are stepping up attacks on the Scottish government and its transport
arm, Transport Scotland, for failing to allow direct trains from
Glasgow to stop there.
Pamela Grant, director of New Edinburgh Limited, the partnership
between the Edinburgh Council and the Miller Group, which owns
Edinburgh Park, told the Sunday Herald: "We contributed over GBP1m
to the building of the station on the clear understanding that it
would service the many people who work in Edinburgh Park who want
convenient links to Glasgow. So far we are not seeing this benefit."
"The previous ...