'After negotiating teams worked through the night to finalise and sign the paperwork', City of Edinburgh Council was able to announce on September 15 that it had reached agreement with the consortium building the city's tram route. Negotiations had been underway since March after both parties had entered formal mediation to resolve a contractual dispute. Detailed terms of the agreement reached with Bilfinger Berger, Siemens and CAF are 'commercially confidential' according to the council. The revised timescale for completing the line from Edinburgh Airport to York Place, close to St Andrew Square, is summer 2014. "The real work begins now on getting the line finished and the trams running', said Sue Bruce, Chief Executive of City of Edinburgh Council. 'In doing so, I'm very pleased to welcome Transport Scotland's involvement which will see our staff and theirs working closely together as we look to enter a new phase in the project's history'.
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