Reduced spending on capital rail freight projects has been condemned by the RFG as a threat to the Scottish Government’s climate change targets.

Of course, the RFG will always push for increased funding, and will use any leverage they can find to ensure freight gets more attention, and more importantly, more money.

But more freight travelling by rail as opposed to by road will significantly cut carbon emissions, and is an obvious way to achieve difficult targets for action on climate change.

However, the proposed funding for this modal switch is also set to cover the promotion of active travel choices, by incentivising walking and cycling. By the RFG’s argument, surely this would deserve a greater allocation of funding, as this will reduce emissions even further.

There is an argument for providing more money for every project, but obviously that money has to come from somewhere and it is in limited supply.

The difficult decision involves splitting this money up and ranking projects in order of necessity. Each sector will consider their work the most important, but something has to give.