The completion of Edinburgh Tram line has been priced at between £80 million and £145m as new options are revealed for examination.
Edinburgh City Council called on a costing report which found taking the tram from York Place to Newhaven would cost £145m, to Ocean Terminal would cost £127m and to the foot of Leith Walk £80m.
An option to stop at MacDonald Road costing £47m is the only one said to be uneconomical.
The council has asked officers to hold a consultation with potential funders including the Scottish Government and European Union and report back in the autumn when the options will be scrutinised.
Transport convener Lesley Hinds said: "We don't want to make any rash decisions about the future of the project and that's why further due diligence is required to ensure a robust financial case that can be used for a basis for an informed judgement."
The trams began operating at the end of May last year after six years of disruption and a long-running dispute between Edinburgh City Council and contractors.
The project cost £776m, more than the original £545m, and arrived three years late.
It is now the subject of a public inquiry by Lord Hardie.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article