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Burnham discussed it further in this podcast here: He talked about using public money to enable improvements to transport infrastructure that would be required with the stadium changes. He also mentions the Freight Terminal (about 32 mins in) and, interestingly, the impact of freight trains...

Enough about Nicola Sturgeon and Scotland, what about China?

I suspect these are tied in with the start of the football season. These buses are often full from Dunfermline when the Old Firm are at home. They may not run in their entirety if there is no match on the Saturday. Or if the game is a midday kick off then the afternoon ones won’t run. Given...

Without trying to go too off-topic, this was raised in the Scottish Parliament today. Minister accused of breaching the ministerial code. Cost of delaying the work is £1 million...

Challenge for the SNP is that the previous White Paper contained a lot of speculation that didn’t bear fruit (oil price projections), inaccurate costings (the proposed costs of setting up all the instruments of State turned out to be less than they spent on setting up one devolved benefit) and...

What a mess. No wonder Scotland is stagnating. This thread - whilst somewhat entertaining - encapsulates the impact on a whole country of the ongoing constitutional question. Same tired arguments on both sides with people getting further entrenched. I suspect most people (apart from those who...

It’s a shame if these don’t return. The N55 in particular was very well used. I wonder if they’ll do something for the Edinburgh Festival as - from memory - they used to put the later buses on all week. Also, from a selfish perspective, the later timed last bus from Glasgow back to Fife was...

Some of the services that ran pre-Covid haven’t come back now we have returned to normal. As an example, the last bus back from Glasgow to Fife moved from 23:30 to 22:50 in January 2021 but hasn’t returned to the original time. Also the N55 from Edinburgh to Fife on a Friday and Saturday are...

The train into Edinburgh on my morning commute was 70% mask free today. However I received an email from ScotRail mid morning trying to intice me into a Flexipass. Immediately, at the top, there is a big picture of a person wearing a surgical mask on an open air platform. No wonder people can...

Out and about in Glasgow city centre shops today. More masks being worn than I thought there would be.

Had a trip to Paris last week. Nearly got caught out at Glasgow Airport. The rules - not sure if they were EasyJet’s, the Scottish Government’s or French Government’s - were that cloth masks were not allowed on the flight and they had to be of the surgical type. An announcement was made whilst...

We were looking at New York over Easter. Disappointed to see that indoor activities are closed off for children between 5 and 11 unless they are double jabbed. Given that in the UK they are only just offering single jabs to this age group then - even if we were going to give our 8 year old the...

As a parent of a healthy 7 year old, I would not let my child have the vaccine given the risks of COVID impact on them are low and their immune system is still developing. The front page of the Telegraph today states that the JCVI have concluded that administering 1 million jabs to healthy 5 -...

I was just repeating what the Train Manager said when both our parties raised it with them. I’ll see what comes back via the claim through the Seat Guarantee scheme.

We travelled on LNER (first) a few weekends ago. Seat reservations were all over the place. On two out of three legs our seats were double booked. On all three legs the digital reservation signs were not working. The train manager told us both times that there are different reservation systems...