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Published Date: 07 January 2009
A £620,000 extension of the station car park at Musselburgh has been completed with the addition of 93 new spaces.
Transport Scotland said the work would allow more people to switch to public transport.

The extension takes the total number of spaces to 119 at Musselburgh.

As part of the expansion, additional CCTV has been installed while enhanced lighting will improve the overall feeling of safety and security for customers.

The extension to the car park is the first in a series of enhancements at Musselburgh.

New facilities including a heated waiting room and customer information screens will be added in the coming months.

The completion of these projects takes Transport Scotland's total investment in railway car park extensions in the east of Scotland to around £2.25 million.

David Doris, project manager at Transport Scotland, said: "The car park expansion at Musselburgh will deliver real benefits."





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  • Last Updated: 07 January 2009 11:24 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

noswod,

Honestas 07/01/2009 12:38:26
How on earth can it have cost £620k to create 93 car parking spaces ? To clear and flatten the ground ashfelt it put in lighting and landscaping maybe £350k. Perhaps the public procurement process needs examining, luckily Whitehall fund our public services.
2

Hoof Hearted,

07/01/2009 13:52:42
First paragraph should actually read:

"A £620,000 extension of the station car park at Musselburgh has been completed with the addition of 93 new spaces for soap-dodging students who now park have somewhere free to park close to Queen Margaret Mickey Mouse University."
3

Mallory,

Edinburgh 07/01/2009 15:42:41
Cheaper to have given them all free bus passes.
4

Andrew,

07/01/2009 19:56:26
1) YES!! Agreed!!
That's £6666.66 per space (on my calculator)!
Is there gold-plated white shiny lining???
5

Ian down under,

Musselburgh 08/01/2009 02:29:58
#1-4 I know how it is done. I worked for British Rail in its final years before dismemberment. I remember the Ministry of Transport bringing in funding rules to make investment more difficult in the days of Maggie the Axe.
First you look at the area involved and find out how much the land is worth at the local highest value, usually housing. This is counted even if the land is already owned and does not need to be bought. In the case of Musselburgh Station the land value is probably around half a million. Then you add the actual cost of construction and then put the whole thing through some Sir Humphrey machine to get the final figure. In reality ot probably cost about 20 thou. where does the extra money go? I've never had an answer to that one.
The old MOT was good at this kind of accounting they also insisted on BR having a 2 for 3 rule for any replacement stock on modernisation and they were banned from building in prospected traffic growth.
This meant that the east coast main line used to need 45-46 trains to operate the service but on electrification only got 31 new ones. That is why you still get diesels running between Edinburgh and London and Leeds and London and not just on trains that go beyond the electrification.

 

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