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Edinburgh paper urges politicians to act on trams crisis

13 March 2009
The Edinburgh Evening News has editorialised no less than three times since Princes Street was shut down to permit tramline construction work to begin – because the work has yet to begin due to a dispute!
The Edinburgh Evening News has editorialised no less than three times since Princes Street was shut down to permit tramline construction work to begin – because the work has yet to begin due to a dispute!

 

“When new TIE chairman David Mackay told the Evening News in December last year that there was not “a cat’s chance in hell” of the city’s trams project becoming another Holyrood fiasco even he could not have envisaged the magnitude of the task he would have in keeping his promise,” an editorial in The Edinburgh Evening News began on 20 February. “Today he finds himself locked in a bitter battle with one of the main contractors, Bilfinger Berger…...

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