Troubled Edinburgh tram project revised again

摘要

Edinburgh Councillors last week voted to overturn a decision to terminate the city's much maligned tram before it reached the city centre. The council will now have to take out a loan to cover the scheme's $37oM shortfall. The City of Edinburgh Council will borrow to fund construction of the line as far as St Andrew Square. It had previously planned to truncate the line at Haymarket on cost grounds. The line was originally due to run from Edinburgh Airport through the city centre - including Haymarket and St Andrew Square and then east to the old port of Newhaven. The original cost for the full scheme was $87oM, with $8ooM provided Transport Scotland and $72M by Edinburgh City Council. The $37oM will only pay for the line to run to St Andrew Square.