MSP Liam Kerr secures site visit with transport minister Jenny Gilruth to highlight case for bringing back Peterhead and Fraserburgh rail links
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MSP Liam Kerr has secured a site visit with transport minister Jenny Gilruth to highlight the case for bringing back Peterhead and Fraserburgh rail links after the SNP axed the proposals from its 20-year transport masterplan.
Ms Gilruth will meet with Mr Kerr at Dyce Station on June 24 after the Scottish Government’s major transport review failed to include reinstating the Buchan and Formartine rail link within its recommendations.
This is despite a feasibility study being promised as part of the cooperation agreement between the SNP and Greens.
Mr Kerr will now use the site visit to ask Ms Gilruth when this promised feasibility study will be carried out and why the proposals were not taken forward in the 20-year masterplan.
He said: “The people of Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Dyce and Ellon deserve answers from the SNP and this is exactly what I hope to get from this site visit with Jenny Gilruth.
“Once again the north-east has been stopped in its tracks at a time when the Scottish Government only wants to concentrate on the Central Belt by upgrading the Levenmouth rail line in Fife.
“It’s scandalous that our region has been left in this position by a flippant decision that has been made behind the scenes in the hope no one would notice.
“I therefore hope Ms Gilruth’s site visit will make her realise that the benefits of relaying the lines from Peterhead and Fraserburgh to Aberdeen can’t be ignored.”
