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Mate of mine lives in Edinburgh, near one of the tram lines.
The locals are obsoletely feckin livid over the whole thing.
 
Everyone in Scotland who pays taxes should be aboolutely livid about the sahmbles that is the Edinburgh tram project. Not only :spank the original hundreds of £'millions, now need £'s more to complete the project, and they only intend to complete half the overall track that was originally intended. The half which will be completed is already well served by busses and trains; tram will actually run alongside the railway for probably third of the propsoed route.

Huge disruption to city roads and motorists for years, little to show for it, and still a few more years to complete the work (assuming the council can conjur up the money to pay for it - begging bowl will no doubt be extended tothe Scottish Government).
 
At least they started!!!!!

Aberdeen will have a public enquiry, then the council will publish a report, somebody will complain, so the solution to that!

Aberdeen will have a public enquiry, then the council will publish a report, somebody will complain, so the solution to that!

Aberdeen will have a public enquiry, then the council will publish a report, somebody will complain, so the solution to that!

Then they will archive the reports and start the whole process again in twenty years.

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Everyone in Scotland who pays taxes should be aboolutely livid about the sahmbles that is the Edinburgh tram project. Not only :spank the original hundreds of £'millions, now need £'s more to complete the project, and they only intend to complete half the overall track that was originally intended. The half which will be completed is already well served by busses and trains; tram will actually run alongside the railway for probably third of the propsoed route.

Huge disruption to city roads and motorists for years, little to show for it, and still a few more years to complete the work (assuming the council can conjur up the money to pay for it - begging bowl will no doubt be extended tothe Scottish Government).

Its nothing like half the over all track. There was supposed to be 3 lines and now there is only half of 1. That half being useless because it runs between Princess street and the airports via no mans land missing just about every single hotel and B&B. Tourists will have to go into the city centre and then bus back out to their hotel. Right now the airport bus goes by the majority of hotels.
All those shops down Leith that have closed because of all the disruption only to never have a tram go anywhere near the area! They made Edinburgh look like a war zone for years and for what? If the half line ever actually does get completed and I am not convinced it will, it will run at a loss for a year and then close down. Still looking on the bright side, our friends in Dublin got some nice new cut price trams out of the deal :thumb
 
Huge disruption to city roads and motorists for years, little to show for it, and still a few more years to complete the work (assuming the council can conjur up the money to pay for it - begging bowl will no doubt be extended tothe Scottish Government).

Maybe they need to be a bit more productive when they are supposed to be working on it :rolleyes:

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Doesn't do much for SNP claims about Scotland being ready for fiscal independence, first that Parliament building, now the trams. Bit sad really.
 
Doesn't do much for SNP claims about Scotland being ready for fiscal independence, first that Parliament building, now the trams. Bit sad really.

Funny you pointed that out, I was thinking the same then realised it was Unionist parties i.e. Labour and Lib dems that started all this pish.
Thankfully we have a Scottish party in charge to help sort out all the crap the feb parties . Christ if labour and tories / lib dems don't work in England how the feck are they supposed to work in Scotland.

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