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Wheeler avoids the potholes to keep city’s tram vision on track

Disruption associated with building Edinburgh’s first tram line has propelled the city’s transport convenor Phil Wheeler into the public eye. Andrew Forster spoke to him about managing transport in the Scottish capital

By Andrew Forster
12 December 2008
“SEStran is a useful meeting point [but] a number of the projects we’re doing in Edinburgh with SEStran’s blessing we’d probably be doing anyway.”
“SEStran is a useful meeting point [but] a number of the projects we’re doing in Edinburgh with SEStran’s blessing we’d probably be doing anyway.”

 

Phil Wheeler, Edinburgh’s transport convenor, was watching with interest this week’s referendum result on Greater Manchester’s multi-billion pound transport investment and congestion charging proposal. After all, Edinburgh was, in 2005, the first city to go down the referendum route on such a package and the public gave the then Labour administration a bloody nose with a resounding ‘no’ vote. Wheeler and his party, the Liberal Democrats, fought the proposals and...

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