When will the Scots transport chaos end?
RAil passengers face a shambolic situation at Glasgow’s Queen Street Station (Mail).
notable by his absence is transport Minister derek Mackay.
the t unnel work t hat required the near- closure of the station – a key l i nk between our largest cities – has been planned for years.
Was there really no time to come up with a solution better than giant queues under c anvas t e nts at Queen Street?
Mr Mackay no doubt uses a ministerial car to get about and is unlikely to be directly affected by either of the big blots on his ministerial copy book – the closure of the Forth Road Bridge and now the Queen Street fiasco.
Scotland’s voters should consider sending Mr Mackay on a slow boat to china this May.
T. HIGGINS, Glasgow WHAt is it with this country and transport?
We have a series of black spots that feature every day on the traffic reports yet nothing is done: the Mayberry r oundabout, castlecarey arches, the Seaward Street j unction on t he M8 in Glasgow...
Although Aberdeen has a bypass coming, commuters have faced decades of grinding traffic.
Recently we’ve had the Forth Road Bridge shut for several weeks and now Glasgow’s Queen Street railway station is in absolute chaos. Glas- gow’s Kingston Bridge – one of the busiest road bridges in europe and a key chokepoint on our busiest motorway – would in any other country by now have a relief bridge built alongside.
Yes, there’s a new Forth road crossing on the way, but the fundamental problems of our creaking infrastructure are not being addressed.
J. ROSS, Johnstone, Renfrewshire Well done the Scottish daily Mail for highlighting the pothole situation.
the truth is vast sections of our roads need complete resurfacing but councils – while paying their executives six-figure salaries – pay only for temporary repairs.
the suspension on ministerial cars must be much better than on the vehicles we plebs drive. Will no senior SnP figure take this issue seriously?
C. BLACk, Wishaw, Lanarkshire