Cracking on - or cracking up
You couldn't make this up, could you? An article in the Herald reveals the concrete in the tram rail bed is cracking up after early test runs.
The article was flagged up by one of our (unpaid) army of spotters accompanied by this list of extracts and the final comment.
Can't really disagree with that last comment...
ESPECIALLY
When linked to THIS story in the Scotsman (brought to our attention by a separate person) on the problems of the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine railtrack where £17M of repairs are needed just 5 years after it was completed.
The original costs had rocketed coming in almost double, while the project was delivered 2 and a half years late.....
And the link between Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine ongoing debacle and the cracks in the tram line?
They were the only two schemes that the grotesquely incapable TIE company was involved in as project managers.
NOT on time NOT on budget .. and the problems NOT over ---even years after the line opens --- sound familiar?
Can we have our Public Enquiry, now please - while it can still do some good?