Edinburgh transport plans
Edinburgh transport plans
Tram costs hit £600m with two years to go
MORE than £150 million has been spent on Edinburgh’s troubled trams scheme in the last 12 months, bringing the price to almost £600m and raising concern the total cost of the scheme could exceed its latest budget.
135 CommentsExtra parking denied in airport expansion
AIRPORT chiefs have been refused permission to create thousands of extra car parking spaces to cope with a huge rise in passenger numbers.
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Depot switch better late than never
EDINBURGH’S trams project finally reached a milestone with the official handover of the Gogar depot to the city council – almost a year late.
8 CommentsMotorists facing Old Town ban under latest city plans
All traffic would be banned from one of the Old Town’s busiest streets under plans that have been branded as “horrendous” by motorists.
205 CommentsFirst trams roll in 52 days... but they’ll only go 470 metres
It is the moment that has, at times, seemed like it would never happen.
On December 2, new moving trams will be seen on Edinburgh’s streets – nearly a decade after the ambitious plans for a series of tram lines were first mooted.
16 CommentsParties ‘must come together’ to complete trams
Those involved in Edinburgh’s trams project must “join together for the sake of the city” and ensure it is delivered, the council’s deputy leader said today.
7 CommentsTrams councillor: I was out of my depth
THE politician at the centre of Edinburgh’s tram fiasco has admitted that he and his colleagues were out of their depth and failed to oversee the project properly.
110 CommentsThey’ve chosen wrong route for trams, claims professor
EDINBURGH chose the wrong tram line to build first, one of Scotland’s most influential transport academics will argue today.
Swinney: ‘I was misled. Tie told me absolute rubbish’
Finance secretary John Swinney has said he was “fundamentally misled” by the publicly owned company that was set up to deliver the trams project.
Profile: Academic who advised government on transport policy
PROFESSOR Iain Docherty was a non-executive director of the Scottish Government’s Transport Scotland agency from 2006 until last year.
Hopes of leasing city trams derailed as Croydon says no
TRAM bosses have been hit by a fresh blow after failing in a bid to raise vital funds for the beleaguered project by leasing some of their redundant vehicles.
Tories refuse seat on tram committee
TORY councillors have become the latest to say they will not sit on a committee set up to oversee the tram project.
Tram chief's pay-off kept secret until next year
THE details of money paid to the former chief executive of the tram project will not be published until next year, it has emerged.
Transport bosses put off free tram travel decision
TRANSPORT bosses have still not decided whether passengers over the age of 60 will be able to travel on the Capital's trams free of charge.
Top tram boss quits project
THE man who has led the city's embattled tram project since it first began has dramatically quit ahead of a major shake-up of the scheme.
Clarity plea over cost of axing trams
TRAM bosses have been urged to "come clean" over how they arrived at the cost of cancelling the project.
Trams 'may worsen air quality in Capital'
THE Capital's tram project could worsen air pollution in some areas of the city by encouraging lorries and trucks on to Edinburgh's roads, a senior council official has admitted.
Stop the tram, we want to get off, say TIE staff
ALMOST the entire workforce at the city's beleaguered tram firm are said to have applied for voluntary redundancy amid fears over the company's future.
Chris Marshall: Council hunts for cash in the attic to bridge trams funding gap
As the council looks to bridge a £170m funding gap for the trams, Chris Marshall sizes up the prime assets at its disposal
Trams stall Leith wheel
PLANS to create Scotland's answer to the London Eye on Edinburgh's waterfront could be shelved because of the city council's failure to take the tram line to Leith.
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