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Feelings are running high as election day approaches. Many of you were angry that the council's arms-length company Lothian Buses should have donated 2,000 to the Labour Party

It's small wonder Lothian Buses is on the slippery slope when it is showing such poor judgement. Unfortunately, running a successful bus company means more than a change of colour scheme now and again.

Bereft of ideas, methinks it's time for a change in management.

ianpg, Musselburgh

No wonder Lothian Buses are a shade of red. I think a new colour is called for. How many who don't support Labour will want to use the buses thinking they are giving indirectly to Labour?

Alice Cooper

If Lothian Buses can afford two grand for a junket then they can afford to keep lesser-used services going.

The Bird

With the talk of transport it was inevitable it would soon turn to trams

The council is annoyed about LB "wasting" money on a table? What about all the money they're wasting on a tramline?!

snoopy, Musselburgh

And as for all the money on the interchange ...

Where is all this money coming from? Answers on a postcard.

The Real Alfonsa Pedrosa

What a dog's dinner. All this money and yet no real direct link to airport, what a mess.

eric, lothian

Why waste 43 million on an interchange? Now the poor punters have to decant from a train and on to a tram, when a simple couple of miles of railway track could have dropped them at the door of the airport.

gggrumpy,

Edinburgh's idea of 'integrated transport' – a tram/train interchange at Gogar.

The Bird

Not 'Edinburgh's idea of integrated transport'. The interchange is the SNP governments compromise to dropping the EARL project because they deemed it too complex, expensive etc. Nobody then came up with a solution for a rail link that was in between a full underground station and the proposed Gogar Interchange. Anyway, if the tram isn't going ahead why are Network Rail supported by the SNP/Transport Scotland (the purse-holders for the trams 500m) pushing ahead with a further 43m (estimate) project. If no trams (or not enough money to finish what has been started) then no real need for the interchange? The trams are coming in one form or another.

Guanyersel

If this is to link trains & trams why do the Greens want cycle & pedestrian access? Leave your bike at home and take train/tram.

Nitpicking

Airports, and the transport links to them should be seen as temporary infrastructure because the fuel supplies to sustain them in the very near future will become increasingly scarce. Anyone who thinks otherwise is badly informed or deluding themselves.

Ghost of Sir William Arrol,

Perhaps if they used less fuel to heat Tollcross Primary, where pupils swelter next to radiators that won't switch off ...

Very expensive, but idea for reducing the obese kids.

The Real Alfonsa Pedrosa

Wait till it's winter, they'll turn them off.

hibbywul,