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Councillors reject plan to borrow £231m to complete city tram route

Trams

Andrew Forster
26 August 2011
Tram lines on Princes Street will remain unused
Tram lines on Princes Street will remain unused

 

City councillors in Edinburgh this week voted to truncate the city’s first tram line even further, saying that the cost of completing a line to the city centre was unacceptably high.

Opposition Labour and Conservative councillors successfully vetoed the ruling Liberal Democrat plans to complete a line from the airport to St Andrew Square. Instead, the line will initially terminate at Haymarket station on the western edge of the city centre.

Council leader Jenny Dawe attacked the...

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