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Time to curb costs and end tram dispute

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.