‘Be willing to pay £50m per mile for a tram scheme’

Neil Renilson, Former Chief Executive of Transport Edinburgh
22 October 2009
Neil Renilson, Former Chief Executive of Transport Edinburgh
Neil Renilson, Former Chief Executive of Transport Edinburgh

 

Edinburgh’s presently under construction 11-mile tram line is currently projected to cost £562m (£545m build cost, plus £17m previously spent) – that’s £51m per mile, for a tramway with 63% of its mileage “off road” on greenfield land, and which is relatively simple to build with only one significant underbridge and four overbridges. Edinburgh is thus a valid, if conservative, yardstick for current UK tramway construction costs. Its...

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