"A £10m pledge made by the Labour administration to help cyclists integrate their journeys with the rail network has been overturned."
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"£4m disappears from railway cycle facility funding budget"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Does this apply here or just England?
Sometimes reports aren't clear although the BBC have got better at this in recent years.
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"Does this apply here or just England?"
Good question.
I assume the answer is yes as rail is devolved.
More interesting is whether a similar scheme was planned here (don't know.)
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If rail is devolved does that mean we can get them to start the high speed link from this end or will it just stop at Birmingham?
I used the re-instated Airdrie - Edinburgh train today, pretty good but only 1 per hour west bound in the afternoon.
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This scheme only applied to England as announced by the UK Department for Transport on 28 September 2009.
wee folding bike - yes, the Scottish Government could choose to start developing a Scottish section of a high speed rail network today if it was so inclined (it isn't and can't afford it at present as they have no borrowing powers and are spending all their capital on the new Forth Crossing).
Only certain rail powers are devolved - i.e. the control of the ScotRail franchise and the power to develop new rail lines. Pretty much everything else remains with the UK Government (safety, standards, all other franchises).
The Airdrie-Bathgate service is currently running on an emergency timetable as the service is meant to be using trains cascaded from Ayrshire routes which were to have been raplaced by new Siemens trains. The new trains have encountered numerous niggles and are being introduced more slowly than anticipated. This means the full Airdrie-Bathgate service is unlikely to start before May.
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