I was watching a bit about that on the local news when I was there in the summer.
And it was in the local paper. And I overheard two people in the hotel talking about it. And the woman who does the Camera Obscura show had a bitch about it.

I didn't really get what was going on mind, beyond 'colossal waste of tax payers money'.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:05, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

colossal waste of taxpayers money
failing to actually provide the transport to Leith which was the whole point, so far behind schedule and overbudget it's actually going backwards and monumental disruption to all other transport in Edinburgh for 7 years. All in all, a stupendous public-sector result, really.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:11, Reply)

Wasn't it going to be 3 lines and now it's like half of one of the originally proposed lines.
Fucking Alistair Darling approved this, the cunt.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:20, Reply)

pretty much, yeah.
but the really frustrating thing is that the only line they are going to build entirely duplicates the route of the Airbus, which is an extremely efficient way of getting to the airport already and the tram will not be any quicker. An excellent use of just shy of a billion quid. even london is going to manage most of an olympics for that and we're getting 8 miles of pointless track.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:23, Reply)

That will likely be the most expensive piece of track in the world.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:24, Reply)

That actually made me laugh.
I know it's not funny, really, especially if you live there I'm sure, but it's just so monumentally ridiculous that I laughed.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:28, Reply)