The important thing is that the scots have realised the importance of having a good rail transport network, they also realise that working on infra structure is a good way to get out of a recession, and that ecologicaly trains make more sense than more roads. would that the Irish strted doing the same thing or worked upon their canal system, to be fair to the last irish government they did make the canal sytem navigable from the shsnnon to dublin.
IRELAND should employ people on increasing its existing canal network, and think of it as a way of taking SOME freight transport.