Return of The TRAMS

Will Edinburgh's TRAMS cause the predicted chaos? Will the £600 million cost over-run? Will anyone want to come shopping in the city centre if it is turned into a giant coffee shop? Where will the buses go?

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Edinburgh
• Trams
• Buses
• Traffic
• chaos

[Spaniel1980]

What a piece of ill informed rubbish!

[davlid2]

Hi spaniel - not ill informed. I've lived here in Edinburgh for 30 years and have yet to meet anyone who either wants or expects the trams to help our city prosper.  With one of the UKs best bus systems in place and threatened by this white elephant it appears that the prime movement for trams has come from developers of former Forth Ports Authority land....

[mcqueenthee]

Quality video!, love the air raid siren in the background.

Unfortunately a sad image of what is to come for Edinburgh..

[davlid2]

Thank you - I'll try to brave tomorrow's expected chaos to produce an updated vid

[NagisaKoworu]

A trolleybus system is better in the narrow conditions in edinburgh, I think :)

[gallafey]

The UK should never had done away with Trams in the first place, Blackpool did th right thing the trams there have their own track along prom from Stargate & inland through Cleavleys the systam does share the same road Fleetwood, near north peir & the rigby rd. area of Blackpool, tram in Blackpool really and so does Manchester, prefer the Tram over the bus becoase you get the driver dawdling at the stop

[krizvasa]

Although it cause some problems during construction It is very good idea to return trams to the city. They are space effective, environmentally friendly. They will encourage people to use public transport. It is great if tram is longer in Edinburgh then it will multiply its advantage of high capacity. I wish every city to have so clever government. Trams create cities much more human and nice...It will help business when it will be finished.

[class90fan]

don't care if our city center will be a construction site during our busiest tourism months. i am sick of the people that moan and groan about the trams they are coming no matter what they say

[soshowcanihelp]

for all you people who have not looked at the progress it will be done soon :)

[davlid2]

If you knew how to install a tram network one hopes that you would have the democratic decency to ask the people if they wanted it first.

The only people who stand to gain from this appear to be developers in Leith. What was wrong with Edinburgh buses continuing to do a good job or are they a bit plebian for the likes of you?

[DeltaNC]

Good for you!

And if I knew how to install a tram network with no disruption I would be a millionaire. What is your point? Do you like "theroyalshow" read things which nobody has actually written? because I don't think anyone here has implied that it is possible to install a tram network without some disruption.