Scottish Parliament Transport Committee
UKU evidence to Transport Cttee
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
![Scottish Parliament Transport Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee is holding an Inquiry into high speed.
The Ultraspeed submission [7MB] can be downloaded from the Parliament’s website. It discusses both North:South and Glasgow – Edinburgh potential Stage One application. See: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/ticc/inquiries/documents/WrittenSubmissionfromUKUltraSpeed-16October2008.pdf
An extremely enlightened submission from Strathclyde Partnership for Transport [SPT] can also be downloaded from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/ticc/inquiries/documents/WRITTENEVIDENCEFROMTHESTRATHCLYDEPARTNERSHIPFORTRANSPORT-16OCTOBER2008.pdf
Finally, Ultraspeed welcomes the rightful insistence of Glasgow – Edinburgh Collaboration Project in that body’s evidence that:
“The benefits of a HSR network reaching Scotland need not simply be through cross-border travel. It would be
wholly unacceptable for such a network not to include both Glasgow and Edinburgh. A high-speed link
between these cities alone could also bring considerable economic benefit by effectively drawing them together
as a ‘single economic space’ while releasing greater capacity for services to intermediate locations on existing
lines. A similar approach has been adopted on “High Speed 1” with high-speed commuter trains, extracting
greater return from infrastructure investment.
There appear to be two competing technological options for HSR: conventional ‘wheel-on-rail’; and magnetic
levitation (maglev). The choice between these should be based on whichever provides the better solution to
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