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Trams deadline is abandoned

Edinburgh’s tram developers have abandoned a commitment to delivering the project by 2012 and admitted its timescale will be pushed back further in the coming months.

In the latest climbdown, council-owned company Transport Initiatives Edinburgh (Tie) is preparing to concede that an ongoing row with contractors has left its work rate far lower than expected and its completion date untenable.