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What Improvements would you want to see?.

On this website we have  avoided publishing anything like a manifesto or list of things we’d like to see, not because the residents have no ideas, but in order to avoid the council trying to turn any debate into one about ‘our ideas’ – rather than the still unacknowledged and many defects in ‘their ideas’.

 But this set of ideas, in a recent exchange by an Ediinburgh resident who has followed events surrounding the Tram project and associated traffic problems closely for many years, and a member of the council, seems to us to contain a

The article by Prof Richard Williams in one of the world's most respected magazines has created a storm.

As ever the report in the Evening news about the ongoing storm is at least as interesting for what the comments section has to say as the report itself.

Ordinary people are not fools...not all of them, all of the time, and they can see how things have gone downhill for almost 20 years, how it isn't all going to be alright once the tram starts and the tram works stop, and can see the Council continue to flounder.

One reason for money being too tight to mention these ---one you won't read

Why everything to do with the Trams in Edinburgh is never what it seems

This contribution to explaining the unavoidable economics of the Tram project and by that, shedding light on the it, is from John Carson a long standing, well informed and knowledgeable critic of the Project.

The underlying economics of the recent headline announcement by CEC of their 'winning concessionary fares for the Tram' were not made clear by the Council.  

Below John Carson spells out another of set of the very significant 'inconvenient truths'; as ever glossed over by the City of Edinburgh Council always

Here's an article spelling out why traffic fumes are dangerous.

As the writer shows, and every scientific study for several decades has shown, these pollutants are killers.

Obviously traffic causes these pollutants, and so we have to do something about traffic- and urgently? Right?

Wrong!

What we have done is ignore the evidence, and instead cause more pollution to be created by fewer vehicles and make sure this is being done, not in lightly inhabited streets, but in the streets where families with young children and old couples live..  In effect we have taken a pollution issue that should

LATEST NEWS:   From the Council Transport and Environment committee meeting coming up in January

The meeting took place on the morning of Tuesday January 15th at the City Chambers on the High Street, starting at  10:00am at the Dean of Guild Court Room in City Chambers on the High Street. A live blogger was supplying the STV local service and this extract caught the eye