Edinburgh tram crisis gets worse

摘要

It became clear at the end of last week that the rift between project manager Edinburgh Trams and Bilfinger Berger, the member of the BSC Consortium responsible for civil works on Line 1, is posing a serious threat to the Edinburgh light rail project (RBI361 p2). A statement issued by the Edinburgh Trams board on March 11 revealed that during tense negotiations Bilfinger Berger had proposed deferring the completion date - originally summer 2011 but generally admitted now to be February 2012 - by a further 30 months to 2014. 'This was deemed to be entirely unacceptable by the board, as was an unqualified increase in cost'.