Dundee LibDems say SNP transport priorities "in tatters" (Dundee Liberal Democrats)

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Dundee LibDems say SNP transport priorities "in tatters"

January 11, 2009 6:31 AM
Originally published by Scottish Liberal Democrats

SNP fails on Scottish Transport

Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Sunday 11th January) said the SNP Scottish Government's transport priorities were "in tatters", with no-one taking their Strategic Transport Review priorities seriously as the government had failed to properly fund projects.

Commenting on the Finance Secretary's request for an interest free loan from the Treasury to fund the proposed Forth Crossing, Liberal Democrat Finance spokesperson Jeremy Purvis MSP said, "The most significant infrastructure project for a generation has been reduced to party point scoring between SNP and Labour governments.

"The SNP have had four different policies on how they would fund the crossing in as many years. To come to Parliament with no funding mechanism agreed was an outrage. The SNP have let down communities across Fife, Edinburgh and East Scotland.

"With the world looking at how a modern Scotland delivers major infrastructure projects, the Forth Crossing runs the risk of being a national embarrassment having been reduced to petty partisanship of the worst kind."

Here in Dundee, City Council LibDem Planning & Transport Convener and chair of the regional transport partnership, TACTRAN, Cllr Fraser Macpherson, added, "It is vital that regional projects in the TACTRAN region are properly funded and do not fail to get funding because the new Forth Bridge project swallows available resources.

"There are important transport improvements needed for Tayside & Stirling and we rightly deserve our fair share of capital funding."