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Councillors kept in the dark about city’s tram cost worries

TRAM

Andrew Forster
29 September 2017
Edinburgh: councillors thought they were signing a fixed cost contract
Edinburgh: councillors thought they were signing a fixed cost contract

 

Potentially damaging information about the Edinburgh tram project was withheld from councillors in the run-up to them approving the main construction contract, the inquiry into the project has heard. 

Councillors thought they were approving a contract in which 95% of the project’s costs were fixed. But officials realised there was potential for significant cost escalation to occur.

“It does appear that there were people within the council who had doubts about the veracity of...

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