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The Herald Scotland
14-07-2025
- Business
- The Herald Scotland
I sailed from Ardrossan to Arran: here's why the service must be saved
It's also clear that many of these passengers are from Glasgow and Lanarkshire, mainly working-class families down here for a day trip to one of the most gorgeous islands in Europe. They're mingling with golfers, student back-packers and tourists and it's not hard to see why. A return ticket for a foot passenger costs barely more than £20 and you more or less walk straight on to the ferry from Ardrossan station. Parking is just £5 for the day. Thomas and his young family are from Glasgow's south-side and booked the trip as soon as he learned that the Ardrossan-Brodick service was returning after a six-month absence. 'It's a lovely sail and takes less than an hour and its far easier to access than Troon and a lot less hassle. As a wee boy, I used to do this trip with my family. A lot of people are cutting back on expensive holidays, but when you've got places like this a hop, skip and a jump away, who cares?' Read more And yet, almost eight years after the Scottish Government promised to guarantee Ardrossan's future as the main ferry port on this route, its residents and those of Arran have become increasingly concerned that a deal has already been made in favour of Troon. Indeed, while CalMac say they will look to continue the revived service it may end - again - on July 21. Jim, whose taxi firm relies on passengers coming from Arran, painted a bleak picture of what will happen to his business – and to Ardrossan – if the ferries stop docking here. 'It will kill our business,' he said, 'and many other businesses in this town will also feel the effect.' 'We've been advertising in Arran for 16 years and get many people from Arran coming here for appointments at Crosshouse Hospital. In fact, I'm picking up a lady for that purpose in a few minutes. It wouldn't be viable for us to drive down to Troon for a pick-up and then on to the hospital. We've already offered a decent discount from Troon while the ferry's been off, but the extra mileage means the fare becomes too steep for many. I know that several hospital appointments, including some for cancer treatment, have had to be cancelled since the ferries stopped in January.' The sense of frustration and impending betrayal is palpable in this community. The saga of Ardrossan Harbour takes some beating. All you can say with any degree of certainty is that many of the people who live here and in Arran feel they have been treated with contempt by Transport Scotland and by Peel Ports, the private conglomerate which owns Ardrossan Harbour. The members of the campaign group, Save Ardrossan Harbour say they always feel they're an unwanted presence in any meetings to discuss its future. Negotiations between Peel Ports, CMAL (Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited) and the local council have been proceeding for more than a year now, but you'd be wasting your time trying to divine the current state of play. And before you even attempt to do so, you first have to unravel the labyrinthine nexus of interests around the table. The Glen Sannox sails from Troon (Image: Getty) CMAL is a wholly owned public corporation of the Scottish Government, whose ministers are its sole shareholders. It's also the asset-owning twin of CalMac Ferries which is the operating company. Both were sired by Caledonian MacBrayne following state aid maritime transport regulations in 2006. The ferry company retained most of the services following the public tendering process, but not all of its former ports. The Ardrossan Harbour crisis has happened through a combination of factors: neglect which saw its old 'Irish' dock being degraded to a state of disrepair and no longer fit for purpose and CalMac choosing to build ferries that, consequently, are too big for Ardrossan. It's pointless even trying to look for the main culprit: there are many. Peel Ports have been sharply criticised for setting too big an asking price for the harbour by local campaigners (reportedly between £80m and £90m). They in turn have rebuked Transport Scotland (the Scottish Government) for a dilatory approach to negotiations. CalMac, of course, are the nation's go-to whipping boys when it comes to ferries, not the least because of the Glen Sannox fiasco (millions over budget; years over their due delivery). Here, they can be criticised over the time it's taken to repair the MV Caledonian Isles which caused the six-month absence. It's not CalMac though, which has been responsible for the decrepit look of Ardrossan Harbour compared to the sleek and swish facilities at Brodick. The local view, expressed by Norrie Hunter, a member of the Save Ardrossan Harbour group tends towards betrayal. 'Many believe Troon has always been favoured and that this decision was made long ago. Ardrossan was doomed from the start of this debacle as the Scottish government had really no intention (or the money to do so) of buying Ardrossan Harbour from Peel ports. This would involve the purchase price and then the hefty repair costs. 'And you also have to ask why CalMac approved the design of two new boats that couldn't berth at Ardrossan in the first place. The SNP are finished here if this happens.' MV Isle of Arran is the oldest beast of burden in the CalMac fleet (Image: Jean Penman) The Scottish Government wants 'the business case' to be made for the cost of purchasing Ardrossan Harbour. Late last year they told me that this was 'substantially complete'. There have been eight (or maybe nine) editions of 'the business case'. Yet, here we still are eight months later. Indeed, Fiona Hyslop, the Transport Minister stated in February that she wanted Transport Scotland and CMAL to 'explore a potential purchase of Ardrossan Harbour'. Over the weekend they were still deploying caution and obfuscation to explain the delay. They are still 'fully committed to Ardrossan' and to 'investing' in it to ensure the service is (altogether now) 'fit for the future'. And then this: 'CMAL and Peel Ports need time and space to undertake and conclude negotiations.' At this rate though, the 'time and space' will soon attract NASA's attention. The Scottish Government also insist that neither they nor CMAL (also the government) can use compulsory purchase powers to force the sale. That just leaves the money then and the suspicion among local campaigners that it doesn't think Ardrossan and its people and its business community is worth whatever's being asked. Yesterday, Duncan Mackison, the CalMac CEO said: 'Operating from Ardrossan reduces sailing time to and from Brodick, which ultimately means we can run more services per day than if a service operates from Troon.' Is that a message to Fiona Hyslop? Read more The people of Arran are also invested in saving Ardrossan Harbour. The campaign group Arran for Ardrossan Harbour, posted this on their Facebook page last week: "Yesterday, along with Save Ardrossan Harbour, we had a very productive meeting with members from the RMT, STUC and the NATU council on how we can put some pressure on the shareholders of Peel Ports to influence Peel to do the decent thing and sell Ardrossan Harbour at a reasonable price. In particular, AustralianSuper who are partly owned by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. AustralianSuper own 32% of Peel's shares.' In the Copperwheats coffee shop beside Brodick's ferry terminal, they were delighted at the return of the ferry, albeit temporarily: 'Business has been good,' the staff all told me. 'It makes sense for Ardrossan to be the main port. It makes all the onward journeys much simpler and much shorter.' The value of Ardrossan Harbour to its own community and to families across west central Scotland won't feature when the Scottish Government decides if 'the business case' is worth it. If Fiona Hyslop or her ministerial colleagues had been on the old MV Isle of Arran on Saturday evening they'd have experienced it in real time. It was in the faces of real families from real communities. This is what real value for money looks like.
BBC News
10-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Great Yarmouth Port operator warns mariners over shifting sands
Mariners have been warned about shifting sandbanks near a port after its operator said there had been "significant" changes to the depth of the Ports, which manages Great Yarmouth Port in Norfolk, issued a notice to mariners advising that shoaling - the process of a watercourse becoming more shallow - in Holm Channel could affect how they approach the entrance to the Outer warned government surveys have found available depths in some locations were now at 10m below Admiralty Chart Datum – measurements used to record tidal the warning, a spokesman for Peel Ports said the shoaling did not affect the size of vessels being able to enter the harbour. While there is no immediate impact, shifting sandbanks can cause problems and, over time, may result in restricting the size of vessels able to enter Norfolk's the future, the port may require dredging work to ensure Channel is a key route into the port and is used daily by large Yarmouth Port is flanked by a number of ever-shifting sandbanks, including Corton Sands and Holm Sand and Scroby Sands, which has become a wind farm handles a variety of ships and cargoes and is the principal UK port for the Southern North Sea gas fields. This article was written by a trusted journalist and then edited for length and style with the help of AI, before being checked again by a BBC Journalist. It's part of a pilot. Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
The Herald Scotland
05-07-2025
- Business
- The Herald Scotland
We are CMAL shareholders. We should be told the truth about Ardrossan
It might appear to some that Peel Ports is a property developer with no interest in operating Ardrossan as a port for Brodick. Where was Peel Ports when it could have repaired the Irish berth? Why is it not kicking and screaming at CMAL using Troon? Could it possibly suit Peel Ports for the ferry operation to move to Troon? And as Troon becomes the port for Brodick, the increased distance will require an increase in the Road Equivalent Tariff to satisfy the increased journey length and a third ferry, heaven forbid, will be required to supply the same level of service from Troon. The proposed 42-year-old MV Isle of Arran sailing from Ardrossan over the Glasgow Fair will allow more sailing capacity than the MV Glen Sannox sailing from Troon. Kevin Hobbs, the chief executive of CMAL, says: "We do not believe and have expressly stated that resilience at Ardrossan (given the entrance through the roundheads and turn) will never be as resilient as Troon given the open sea approach." He forgets that a smaller, highly-manoeuvrable ferry on Troon berthing trials became pinned against the harbour wall, requiring a tug to pull her off. As a professional seaman I can assure you that the entrance to Troon is a lot more exposed than Ardrossan. If you want evidence of this please look up service cancellations by the MV Glen Sannox which even the devil incarnate catamaran MV Alfred beats. Ardrossan is more than adequate when the correct vessels are used; four are coming from Turkey soon. Brian Wilson refers to the 95% redaction in his FoI reply citing the catch-all grounds that "the balance of public interest lies in withholding the information". The sole shareholders of CMAL are the Scottish Government ministers elected by us to represent them; that means it is ultimately the public who are the shareholders and we need to know. Peter Wright, West Kilbride. We are all in trouble Ferguson Marine is still in trouble despite £500m of public money having gone in. Now a committee of MSPs has cast doubt upon its future without further investment ('Ferguson Marine needs 'urgent investment', warns committee', The Herald, July 4). £14.2m extra has already been promised by the SNP, although it is unclear as to whether this money has been received. The MV Glen Rosa is the only work on the books and is due to be delivered around the time of the 2026 Holyrood election. This will focus attention upon the financial record of the SNP after 19 years of rule. Has it been good value for money or a bottomless pit for taxpayers who are constantly asked for "just a little bit" more? The broad shoulders are sagging very badly. It is not just Ferguson Marine that is in trouble, it is the entire country. Dr Gerald Edwards, Glasgow. Read more letters Dangerous definitions Murdo Grant (Letters, July 4) highlights how politicians cynically use the word 'terrorist' to condemn people with whom they disagree and to justify their own illegal acts of extreme violence. A classic example was provided by Margaret Thatcher, who in 1987 described South Africa's African National Congress as a 'typical terrorist organisation'. She was referring to the fact that the ANC had established an arms-length group called Umkhonto ke Sizwe, Spear of the Nation, MK for short; this followed the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. MK's task was to carry out a campaign of sabotage against the oppressive apartheid state that had inflicted so much violence on non-white South Africans. The campaign was directed at infrastructure, not people, though there was clearly a risk when explosives were being used that people could be injured or killed. The first head of MK was Nelson Mandela, who had reluctantly accepted that decades of struggle and sacrifice had failed to impact the white regime. As he said at his trial in Rivonia in 1963: 'It would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our demands with force.' Mrs Thatcher's Tories opposed sanctions against South Africa, to their eternal shame. Fast forward 20 years and Tory leader David Cameron apologised in person to Mr Mandela for 'mistakes my party made in the past'. As the saying goes: one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, and the label should be used with care. Which is why I'm alarmed by this week's vote at Westminster, by a majority of 359, to proscribe as a terrorist group Palestine Action, which vandalised two RAF transport aircraft at Brize Norton on June 20 ('MPs back move to ban action group', The Herald, July 3). The damage to the aircraft was minimal, though it has of course been inflated for political purposes. And you could argue that Palestine Action has done the country a favour by highlighting just how lamentable is security at our military establishments; I'm sure Mr Putin will have noticed. With the threshold for 'terrorism' now being so low, I guess I should expect a snatch squad to appear on my doorstep in dead of night if this letter is published. How very 1984, and from a Labour government. Doug Maughan, Dunblane. Drawbacks of foreign input I'm grateful to Jackie Kemp (Letters, July 4) for taking the time to read my letter of July 2. But I fear she has entirely missed the point. I mention neither 'Scottish independence' nor 'EU membership'. My point was apolitical and focused on the dangers of over-dependence on inward investment and outside decision-making. Our experience of the past shows that high dependence on inward investment can be like riding a powerful bucking bronco. The ride can be exhilarating, but only while it lasts. The end can be sudden and painful. Remember Silicon Glen? It was built up largely on the back of inward investment over three decades-plus, when Scotland was part of the EU. This involved leading corporates (many from the US) including IBM, Motorola, Hewlett Packard, DEC, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, National Semiconductor, Burr Brown, NEC, Sony and more. Where are they now? Sadly, 'no more' (cue the Proclaimers). Most were branch plants with no deep roots in Scottish soil. And most had left by the turn of the century when Scotland was still in the EU. When conditions change multinationals adapt. They restructure, downsize, or move away. And they do that 'irrespective of the national regulatory regime they're in'. That's the point. (PS And for the record, the EU market is not an insurance policy protecting all inward investment in Ireland. One of the largest investors – Pfizer in Cork – exports 80% of its product to the US, not Europe, and is therefore vulnerable to Trump tariffs.) Ewen Peters, Newton Mearns. • In Jackie Kemp's plea for an independent Scotland to join the EU (Letters, July 4), she stresses the potential trade benefits. Yet these can be obtained by joining EFTA/EEA (as advocated by Alba), without the need for the substantial annual net contributions to the EU which accession would entail. George Morton, Rosyth. Nelson Mandela with the late Queen Elizabeth: he was branded a terrorist by Margaret Thatcher (Image: PA) Send migrants to Dartmoor Sir Keir Starmer has said that he deeply regrets claiming that the UK risked becoming an "island of strangers". Why? Twenty thousand unwelcome strangers have crossed the Channel this year. Does Sir Keir not realise that these people will never contribute to our economy? We pay the French half a billion pounds to wave the boats off from Calais. There are over 32,000 asylum seekers in UK hotels at a cost of £1.3 billion a year. There are 19,244 foreign offenders awaiting deportation. Add on the cost of priority NHS treatment and the £40,000 a year for each of the 10,355 foreign offenders in jail. Asylum seekers (and everyone claims to be one) get £49.18 a week whilst their asylum claims are being processed. We should stop pandering to the pro-immigrant charities and migrant legal aid lawyers and put these pseudo asylum seekers in tents on Dartmoor guarded by the armed forces until their asylum claims have been determined. The UK needs to deter illegal immigration before we do become an "island of strangers". Clark Cross, Linlithgow. The end of empathy I recommend everyone reads Rebecca McQuillan's article (Now Donald Trump turns to alligators to terrorise migrants, ("Now Donald Trump turns to alligators to terrorise migrants", heraldscotland, July 3). This is where MAGA brainwashing leads to, and is brilliantly expressed by Ms McQuillan in her final paragraph: "Mirthless jokes about vulnerable othered minorities trying to escape man-eating animals. This is what happens when empathy dies." Willie Towers, Alford. Time to ditch green dreams On June 13, 2025, the UK Government announced a £500 million investment, paid for by UK taxpayers, to accelerate the development of the UK's first regional hydrogen transport and storage network. (Thankfully, most likely in the industrial heartlands of the UK – although the Scottish Government has similar ideas). One of the objectives of this funding is to complement the £2 billion which has already been invested by the Government to incentivise production of green hydrogen in the first hydrogen production allocation round contract (HAR1). This is like the incredibly lucrative 15-year initial Contracts for Difference (CfDs) awarded to to wind farm developers. This will mean new gas pipes being installed as well as new hydrogen storage depots. And that is on top of the desecration now being caused by the grid expansion to give us all more "green electricity". All this taxpayer money will be going to commercial companies to hasten our journey to net zero and a low-carbon economy. When such a fuss is being made over the £6 billion that might have been saved from welfare reforms, why is there no scrutiny of where our money is going to meet this net zero ideology? So were proposed winter fuel cuts and welfare cuts (both now watered down) supposed to fund the net zero ambitions? Perhaps its time for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to question the sanity of Energy Minister Graham Stuart and use common sense to ditch the green dreams and balance the budget. Graham Lang, Chairman, Scotland Against Spin, Ceres, Fife. Accentuate the positive I was disappointed in your choice of front page headline: 'More than £1.4 million spent on cleaning up sewage spills" (The Herald, July 4). This is a fact, but why not emphasise the good news? Sewage spills costs have reduced by 75 per cent in two years, from £540k in 2022 to £136k in 2024. This might be a reflection that most wet wipes are now paper-based. Eric Macdonald, Paisley. Discontent over attribution Lord David Lipsey coined the phrase "winter of discontent" ("Labour peer who coined 'winter of discontent' phrase found dead after swim", The Herald, July 4)? Very strange: I always thought the author of that phrase was William Shakespeare, in the opening line of Richard III. Derrick McClure, Aberdeen.
The National
25-06-2025
- Politics
- The National
With direct democracy, Ardrossan Harbour problem could be solved
It is not in any real sense a complex or difficult problem; on the contrary, the problem is quite simple. It is a simple matter of ensuring that the harbour facilities are capable of dealing efficiently with the ferry boats designed to use it. Everyone with half a brain can see the problem, and knows how to resolve it, and there is no difference of opinion on that, so why is it not being addressed? The 'problem' in fact is how it is not being addressed. READ MORE: Protesters take to Holyrood amid 'deadlocked' Ardrossan Harbour deal This intractable and seemingly endless problem is not something that the local community has not addressed, or that local people with the best community interests at heart have not tried to get resolved. Indeed from Steph's article it is clear that a considerable number of active members of the local community have put in tireless efforts of unpaid work in the highest level of community spirit to get this issue resolved, but their efforts, rather than being acknowledged and praised by the 'authorities', are being ignored and treated with contempt. This 'problem' is one which could not exist in any community in Switzerland, for the simple reason that the Swiss people would simply apply UN Human Rights Covenants to exercise their rights to 'direct democracy' and this would give them an effective and simple way to address this 'problem', and a quick way to resolve it. READ MORE: 'Impossible to say' when MV Caledonian Isles will be fixed, says CalMac Because the 'problem' is not a real intangible problem at all, it's an integral fault in our democratic process which needs to be addressed. Why is it that the people in Switzerland can address this problem we are having without difficulty, and that their active citizens can easily address this without difficulty and with the respect of their community, while our community activists are ignored and treated with contempt? The difference is activists in a Swiss community have access, by law, to all UN Human Rights Covenants and can, if they have sufficient local support, force the local authority, or regional authority, or Swiss government to organise a referendum which is legally enforceable on the authorities. Now the Scottish people are entitled to the same UN Human Rights Covenants, and could, if they were put into Scots law, exercise the same power, to compel CalMac, Peel Ports, the local authority, the Scottish Government, to take control of Ardrossan Harbour and put in the public investment required to solve this problem, with no further delay. Does this seem possible, after all this time watching vested interests delay and dispute this issue while ignoring the community and seeing the local community and economy suffer for no real reason? Well it is entirely possible, and what's more you can do something about it, if you live in Scotland and are on the electoral register. You can go on the Scottish Parliament website go to 'view petitions', go to 'enter keyword' put in the petition number 'PE2135' then 'see full petition'. You will then see the full petition, which you can read, and if you agree with it, sign. For our part, we in the Ardrossan Unit of the Direct Democracy Federation Scotland (DDFS) will promise you that if this petition is put into Scots law, which the Scottish Parliament has the legal power to do now, we will take immediate steps to call a legal referendum on this issue without delay and bring this sorry mess to a sensible solution without further obfuscation. Fiona Hicks Secretary, Ardrossan Unit, DDFS RICHIE Venton correctly points out the dead-end of begging or bribing corporate entities to open or continue working here (or indeed, anywhere) (Don't subsidise – nationalise, Jun 24). I am no spring chicken and have a lifetime of watching the public purse raided by corporations through subsidies, 'support' payments or tax breaks and then walk away, leaving nothing behind but empty premises to match the empty promises. Scotland is being sold out massively by the mainstream capitalist parties, including the SNP. With the resources we have, our energy bills should be way lower for domestic and commercial users. That alone should have the potential to drive industry and provide high-quality employment while improving the environment for all. READ MORE: Donald Trump no longer meeting King Charles in Scotland What is happening is the opposite: continued de-industrialisation in parallel with the exploitation of communities and their environs to provide profits which are off-shored to a corporate clique. It's a fake green new deal which satisfies only the parasite class. A socialist model of ownership and development as proposed by Mr Venton and the Scottish Socialist Party can stop this and start to spread our national wealth for the benefit of the majority. Trying to play nice with rapacious corporate entities and the Westminster government is doomed to fail us. David Stevenson Cambuslang
The National
19-06-2025
- Politics
- The National
Protesters take to Holyrood amid 'deadlocked' Ardrossan Harbour deal
There have been no ferries from Ardrossan to Arran – a route which has existed for nearly 200 years – since January because the newest CalMac ferry is too big to berth at the harbour and the MV Caledonian Isles, which does fit, has been out of action for 18 months. Instead, the Glen Sannox has had to travel to Brodick from Troon, which takes longer and is widely viewed as much less convenient for the people of Arran who need to get to medical appointments at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock – for which there is a direct bus route from Ardrossan. Transport Minister Fiona Hyslop announced back in February that money had been set aside to take Ardrossan Harbour into public ownership, but campaigners have become frustrated with a lack of movement since then. This has only been compounded by the fact the Scottish Government pledged back in 2018 to ensure Ardrossan remained the gateway to Arran. The project to upgrade the harbour was then paused in 2023 amid concern over rising costs and disagreements over how the bill should be split between the three partners: harbour owners Peel Ports, North Ayrshire Council and the Scottish Government. READ MORE: Scottish Government accused of 'sidelining' climate action Campaigners from both sides of the Firth of Clyde – who were supported by cross-party politicians - turned up in their dozens to Holyrood to say 'enough is enough', as they called for Hyslop and the Scottish Government to get directly involved in securing a deal. 'It's been going on for far too long. We've been neglected to the extreme. Businesses are closing in both areas and local communities are disgusted with what's going on,' said Margaret Roberts, from the Arran for Ardrossan Harbour campaign. 'The most important thing is hospital appointments are having to be cancelled, important medication and appointments are being missed. 'It's not fair on the local people. North Ayrshire needs this service to be resolved now.' (Image: NQ) Chants of 'Fiona Hyslop, more hands on' and 'Ardrossan's the crossing' could be heard outside Holyrood as MSPs from Labour, the Conservatives and Greens spoke in solidarity with protesters. Wyllie Hume, chair of the Arran for Ardrossan Harbour campaign, previously told The National a meeting with Peel Ports, CMAL and Transport Scotland had left him 'flabbergasted', as campaigners were left feeling as if the deal 'could fail'. The Ardrossan Harbour issue was raised during FMQs by Labour MSP Katy Clark and SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson. Gibson put to the First Minister that talks appear 'deadlocked', stressing if the situation is not resolved, Arran 'will not have the lifeline service it deserves' and Ardrossan 'will struggle'. He asked if the Scottish Government would 'inject urgency' into the process. (Image: NQ) Swinney said negotiations have the 'attention and focus' of ministers and CMAL and the Government is 'focused on a long-term solution for Ardrossan Harbour'. He added it remained the 'key port' for Arran. Clark asked the FM if he agreed a process of compulsory purchase needed to start if there was no progress by summer recess – the end of next week. John Swinney said he would explore compulsory purchase but it had been indicated to him the Scottish Government 'does not have the basis to do so'. 'The Government is actively engaged in the dialogue to acquire Ardrossan Harbour to enable the long-term commitment that Katy Clark seeks.' READ MORE: 300 jobs at risk as firm moves Scottish Power contract to South Africa Save Ardrossan Harbour committee member Donna Cullinane said she wants to see ministers get directly involved to speed up negotiations, with shops in Ardrossan losing business. She told The National: 'We want the deal done. We want the ministers involved, not CMAL. 'We want the harbour fixed. Why build two ferries that don't fit?' Asked about whether she was concerned for the Ardrossan economy, she added: 'I'm very worried. You can tell even now there's a lack of vehicles coming through, lack of economy, because people are not stopping at the shops. 'A lot of the shops are losing revenue. 'It needs to be done for the sake of people on Arran who are coming for medical appointments. There's a bus route from Ardrossan to Kilmarnock every 20 minutes. 'If people from Arran are coming over for an appointment, they've got to really plan it [from Troon], and it can be an overnight stay for them.' Transport Scotland has previously said to The National it is 'wholly appropriate' for CMAL to lead on negotiations on behalf of ministers. Peel Ports has said, meanwhile, there has not been enough 'pace and energy' from CMAL and Transport Scotland, while CMAL has said it has to 'deliver the best value for the public purse'.
