Starlink attacks SESTRANS parking plan
09/05/26
The fear
was, as providing more space for cars increases car
use, more rail passengers would drive to Leuchars
rather than taking the bus, not just from St Andrews
but from further afield, such as Dundee. And this sat
oddly with the ‘virtual branch line’, as the bus
service has been renamed. The convenor said, ‘It
doesn’t say very much for this much-vaunted strategy
and sends very mixed messages to passengers if 100
extra car-parking spaces are to be provided at
Leuchars. A coherent transport strategy for St
Andrews is needed rather than this tinkering at the
edges. It is high time some serious work into making
the business and environmental case for a new St
Andrews railway was carried out. In my view the
increased provision of car-parking spaces at Leuchars
is a blunt instrument being applied to something that
instead requires some fine tuning.’