2000
Starlink still on track
Sunday, 31 December 2000
Fife Council
officials have not written off the idea of a St
Andrews railway, despite the Fife & South Tayside
Rail Study’s conclusion that there was no case for
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Significant differences in Golflink percentages
Saturday, 30 September 2000
Further
information about the use of Golflink confirms there
was a massive difference between usage of the
Golflink service to the Open at Carnoustie last year
and to St Andrews this year.
In 1999 a total of 40,955 out of the 157,000 attendees travelled to Carnoustie via Golflink, giving a percentge of 26.1%. Usage over the four days of the competition at St Andrews this year averaged 15%, with 29,500 attendees travelling via Golflink.
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In 1999 a total of 40,955 out of the 157,000 attendees travelled to Carnoustie via Golflink, giving a percentge of 26.1%. Usage over the four days of the competition at St Andrews this year averaged 15%, with 29,500 attendees travelling via Golflink.
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Lib-Dem council leader backs Starlink
Thursday, 31 August 2000
In the
aftermath of the Open Championship, Liberal Democrat
Cllr Elizabeth Harris, Leader of the Opposition on
Fife Council, added her voice to calls for St Andrews
to be reconnected to the rail network. As reported in
the St Andrews Citizen (11th August 2000), Cllr
Harris praised the organisation of the championship
and all concerned with it, but added that the town’s
infrastructure needed to be improved if the town were
to host the event more frequently. It has been
suggested that after its next visit in 2005, the Open
will return to St Andrews every four years.
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Doubts cast on rail study
Wednesday, 30 August 2000
Concerns
about the validity of the Scott
Wilson study into a St Andrews
railway were publicly aired in the
Dundee
Courier (3rd August 2000),
The
Scotsman (4th August 2000) and
the St Andrews
Citizen (11th August 2000), when
the string of factual inaccuracies plus the
exceedingly limited nature of the investigation were
revealed.
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Golflink numbers down
Monday, 31 July 2000
Despite the
record attendances at this year’s Open in St Andrews,
the number of people using the Golflink service to
the course was actually down on last year – and
Scotrail has apparently conceded that the fact that
the train only ran to Leuchars, 5 miles from the
course, was a factor. Read
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