Summary
The single, marooned tram carriage sitting in the middle of Princes Street in Edinburgh in recent weeks has become an unfortunate symbol of the state of the city's trams project as something stalled and stagnant - an idea that's going nowhere. At the same time however, the bill to Scotland's taxpayers for consultants has been growing with great speed over the last three years and shows no signs of slowing.
Today, The Herald reveals how the pound(s)16.2million bill for consultants between 2007 and 2009 has grown again, with another pound(s)3.9million spent on external advisers since 2009. Most shockingly, the vast majority of this extra cost - pound(s)2.2million - has been spent on lawyers and consultants who are attempting to resolve the continuing dispute between TIE, the company owned by Edinburgh City Council which runs the project, and the German contractor Bilfinger Berger. At a time when every penny counts, it seems an appalling waste of taxpayers' money.See the full content of this document
Extract
Time to Curb Costs and End Tram Dispute
Of course, as the dispute has dragged on and the legal bills have grown, it's been easy to forget how much goodwill there was ...
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