Glasgow Airport's Rail Link will be sold off

You know, I had to laugh the other day when I came across Wendy Alexander crying into her broken mirror (the one she broke by looking into it) about the decision to sell off the land that would have accommodated GARL - the Glasgow Airport Rail Link - just because it would have been in her constituency - had it ever been built.

Now as an expert planner, I know a fair bit about infrastructure as well as human nature and believe me, there was never the faintest chance of people using this rail link - except for guys on the Buckfast who were too drunk to get on the right train from Glasgow Central. Two good reasons why it would never work:

1. firstly business people don't want to sit in a stinking old diesel train. It would be absurd for our generals of industry to be seen on the maroon and cream train that marks people out as plebs and chavs. Right?
2. second reason - nobody in business wants to fly from Glasgow Airport as it is a second rate shopping mall filled with drunken halfwits flying off to Benidorm and Torremolinos for a fortnight of burds and bevvy (not my words of course). Big business, especially the upper echelons of property development don't want to be associated with this sort of thing. For example you wouldn't find Dr Donald Trump or Sir Ian Wood on the train to Glasgow Airport - would you?
   

So I hate to say it but wee fat Alex Salmond was right to cancel this daft project. Selling off the land to enable new development in the area - even if it is long and thin - is the right answer, so full marks and a big tick to the guys who thought this one up. I also look forward to plans for a wider motorway being announced in the near future - now that is the way to travel to the airport!