Holyrood support for Clyde Metro

The Clyde Metro project will be backed with public funding from the Scottish government, Scotland’s Transport Minister Fiona Hyslop has confirmed.

Pressed on the matter at a Railway Industry Association Scotland fringe meeting at the SNP conference, Hyslop said the programme to build a new, integrated transport network in the Greater Glasgow area was a “priority”.

Clyde Metro was a key recommendation in Transport Scotland’s Strategic Transport Projects Review 2 (STPR2), published in December 2022. Shortly after, it was included in the Scottish government’s statutory National Planning Framework 4.