It's not so much about being able to travel to the cities, it's about whether the huge cost of making it slightly faster to travel to the cities is better for t

It's not so much about being able to travel to the cities, it's about whether the huge cost of making it slightly faster to travel to the cities is better for the regions, than spending that money on schools, local transport, hospitals, to encourage more people to stay and work in the regions. Scotland has a population growth issue. The last thing it needs to spend 10bn on, is shaving 10 mins of the journey time to london. That 10bn would be better spend on local infrasctructure.