SIR, Your reporter, Mark Davey, interviewed 12 Borders residents to ascertain their future use of the much hyped Waverley train (Border Telegraph, November 5). Curiously and significantly not one of them intends to use it on a regular basis.
A successful, unsubsidised, train operation is dependent on very large numbers of daily commuters. These apparently are not going to be coming from Gala folk!
On page five, Road Projects Manager Ewan Doyle informs us that a new short stay car park is to be created on the site of the old bus station. A fat lot of good this will be for any drivers from outwith Gala who might be tempted to use the train. Gala station will be nigh on unique in not having adjacent long term parking.
White elephants on the horizon are heading this way! Maybe the Transport Interchange could provide stalls for them, as well as the showers proposed for cyclists.
I am, etc.
Jim Kirkness Justice Park Oxton
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