Pride aim for tram project
AN SNP minister says he wants to make Edinburgh’s trams into a project Scotland can be proud of.
The party was opposed to the trams until the Scottish Government intervened last month and appointed Transport Scotland to a key role in the project.
Infrastructure and Investment Secretary Alex Neil told the SNP conference in Inverness: “We are determined now we are involved in the management of the project to do our damnedest to make sure from now the trams project in Edinburgh is run properly and is something we can be proud of in Scotland, instead of being ashamed.”
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Argungu
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 04:38 PM2 x Alex, Well done! You get Edinburgh to pay for the tram overspend, however much that will be, to York Place. Now, just make sure that the tram and Lothian Buses are joined at the hip through Transport Edinburgh Ltd. (TEL). After the tram inauguration in 201?, when the full costs are known, and the running losses of the tram drag down the Lothian Bus profits for a few years. The Council may now be forced to put TEL up for sale to stem these unaffordable losses? I wonder who the preferred bidder could be? Surely not the same team that took over the Sheffield Tram?
keyser soze
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 12:27 PMSorry Alex, the trams will always be thought of as an national scandal. From the failure of John Swinney to stop the project years ago, the endless lies from Edinburgh Council and TIE and the spineless performance of the SNP in Edinburgh ,lead by Steve Cardownie. It has highlighted all that is wrong about local politics and the arrogant attitude they take regarding public opinion. We now have Alex.salmond delaying the public enquiry until God knows when. If Alex Neil thinks that public perception of the trams will change,he really is on another planet.
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