LIKE so many episodes in the tragi-comic history of the Edinburgh trams project, it started with a cock-up: an entirely self-inflicted, amateurish, and absurdly expensive cock-up.
After more twists than a Highland single-track road, a decision was finally taken on Edinburgh’s ill-fated trams project. The only trouble was ... it was the wrong decision. Scottish Political Editor Tom Gordon looks at the politics, the people and the events behind the scenes of a week when a farce became a fiasco
A week last Thursday, the City of Edinburgh Council met to consider approving yet another budget revision for the troubled scheme.
After starting out priced at £545 million for 11.5 miles from the capital’s airport to Leith, the tram line had been shortened to eight miles, to St Andrew Square at the eastern end of Princes Street, while the bill had risen to £776m.
