Trainenomics

My love affair with the train is long running and consistent. It would be easy to blame the several people involved in keeping that flame going, but really the best response is that I keep that flame going for it is a sensible one.* At university, some labelled me the Anti-Beeching: it is a moniker I am proud of. Short term gains which breed long term issues is a politic stance which should all should be dissuaded from.

*(Mere hours after Jim Steel points out how much he hates comma conjuctions that I go and use one in my second sentence here!)

Years ago we saw the great plans for subway extension in Glasgow, set up for consultation at Glasgow University. I graduated in 2009, and nay a word of it in the near decade since those plans. Even the lesser but worthy mirror track for the Commonwealth games has seen no light of day. So I took to thinking, if I were Minister without Portfolio for Trains (to use a hypothetical job description) how I would go about fixing the situation.