Summary
IT WAS envisaged as a network of tram lines that would transform public transport in Edinburgh, allowing residents a realistic alternative to the car and cutting congestion and pollution.
By yesterday, they were left with a shuttle service from Haymarket, on the western edge of the city centre, to the airport six miles away - which official estimates suggest will be largely shunned by passengers and run at an operating loss of pound(s)4 million a year.See the full content of this document
Extract
Stopped in Its Tracks
For opponents, most notably the SNP, the writing has been on the wall for the project long before they lost an attempt to ditch it in 2007, when they were outvoted in the Scottish Parliament.
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