My main concern for the Edinburgh and Lothians is the transport situation and I fully support the Airdrie Bathgate link the opening of the Waverley line to Galashiels with a twin track to Gorebridge with the feasibility to take this further to the Borders on to Newcastleton and Carlisle.
The opening of the railway link to Penicuik, to Peebles Innerlethan Walkerburn and Galashiels. with the appropriate stations and the re-opening of the South suburban line and this could work in conjunction with the Fife circular line for example a figure of eight for passenger trains. Stations should also be opened at Abbeyhill Gorgie and Portobello with a rail link to Edinburgh airport. A passenger ferry service to Burntisland to Granton, (the road distance is 19.9 miles) Kirkcaldy to Portobello (distance being 32 miles) and a ferry ticket which covers all modes of transport within Edinburgh. A car ferry from Dunbar/Anstruther (distance being 94 miles). These measures with an integrated public transport system would alleviate congestion the environment and stress in which people suffer from traffic jams etc.
A metro rail-tram connection from Granton to Haymarket or the viability of a line Granton Trinity Abbeyhill instead of the disruption that tram lines are going to cause to the people from Leith Princess Street Roseburn and the Gyle etc.
There should be more investment in the Scottish train system with electrification of the east coast line to Aberdeen, with the same improvements on the line to Glasgow Queen Street with the opening of the cross Glasgow rail link with dual tracking on more of the line between Perth and Inverness. These measures taken in conjunction with trains running up to an hour and a half later between Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street and trains from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh about one hour later than they are just now. This will help to increase business and tourism.
There should be a Southeast passenger transport authority to co-ordinate low fares accessible integrated transport system for Edinburgh East Lothian Midlothian West Lothian Fife and the Scottish borders covering buses metro rail trains and ferries. Edinburgh has a very good bus system which can be diverted if there are hold-ups if there are problems on the road unlike trams. Unfortunately when Lothian regional transport review their programme of routes there is always people who lose out on the 18 / 32 route and the 11 / 31 and this has happened around Edinburgh as well.
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I think train services should be run 363 days a year, and maybe limited local services on Christmas and New Years day.
I feel that trains to and from Edinburgh to London should not end at 6 oclock at night. Surely trains between two capital cities should not have their last departure time as early as 6 p.m. For an experimental time I would like to see trains depart at 7.30 pm.
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