Glasgow's £40m Fastlink project could be operational in time for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The Glasgow Herald has reported that Glasgow's long-awaited
trams-on-wheels project will receive Scottish Government funding
and be operational by the 2014 Commonwealth Games,
according to the chairman of the company set up to deliver the
scheme.
Willie O'Rourke, a Glasgow councillor and chair of Glasgow Clyde
Regeneration Ltd, told a meeting scrutinising the stuttering
progress of Fastlink that "personal assurances" had been provided
by First Minister Alex Salmond that the scheme would receive the
required financial support.
The Herald understands Mr Salmond has in recent weeks told
senior figures involved in the organisation of the Commonwealth
Games that Fastlink will ferry spectators between major 2014
venues.
Other ministers are also understood to have been recently
briefing public figures and officials in the Glasgow area on the
prospects of the project coming to fruition in the near future.
Councillor O'Rourke said the project will cost around £40
million adding: "I believe we will receive good news from the
Government and in this financial year will be given the go-ahead
for the project. No less a person than the First Minister has
promised that by 2014 Fastlink will be servicing the Commonwealth
Games."
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