Tag: Tram

Tram project faces 1,000 threats from buried pipes

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - November 14, 2011

MORE than 1,000 buried pipes and cables are threatening to bring yet more trouble toEdinburgh’s trams project. The latest underground threats to the scheme were...

Shoppers avoid city centre marred by tram work

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - November 7, 2011

SHOPPERS are avoiding some of Scotland’s busiest shopping streets because of renewed tram work. The average weekly number of visitors to Edinburgh has slumped by...

Tram firm to cost £8,000 a day

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - October 13, 2011

THE new firm brought in to run the Edinburgh tram project will cost nearly £8,000 a day. International consultancy firm Turner & Townsend (T&T) will...

City bosses in desperate search for trams buyer

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - August 23, 2011

By Kirsty Topping TRAMS chief are desperately searching for a new home for their redundant vehicles. The council had previously failed to seal a...

£45,000 in expenses paid to tram consultancies

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - April 3, 2011

MORE than £45,000 in expenses has been payed to consultancies on the troubled Edinburgh Tram’s project. It has been revealed that Transport Initiatives Edinburgh (TIE),...