Edinburgh Council continue to deny the evidence of their own eyes - by saying traffic does not got down the centre of the street.
Why? Because the distance from the kerb matters a lot .
Why? This extract from an email to senior colleagues by the head of the Council's Scientific Services Department (released under FoI) makes clear.
".......The net effect of using the national bias factor and the larger diffusion factor is that the calculated levels of N02 at the building facade will be greater than the value which CEC would calculate, and the combined effect is more likely to tip the value over the air quality maximum."
(the further traffic really runs from the kerb, and the parked cars, the larger the difffusion factor--------By pretending the traffic is closer than it is, the diffusion factor is reduced and the air pollution recorded in the final 'corrected' figures then comes out as a lower number)
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Did Edinburgh Council and Tie tell the councillors what was going on before announcing to the world that the project was £hundreds of millions over budget and Princes Street would be dug up yet again?
Did Edinburgh Council and Tie tell the councillors what was going on before announcing to the world that the project was £hundreds of millions over budget and Princes Street would be dug up yet again?
An open letter from prominent and respected experts in the field of Civil Engineering remains unanswered and unacknowledged by TIE; as the grotesque bungling on Princes Street confirms their worst fears
These questions from respected Civil Engineers highlight even more potential problems for the Tram project which require serious answers from the City of Edinburgh and their ‘arms length’ company TIE.
Eight questions from independent engineers with lifetime careers in Civil and transport engineering that went unanswered and unacknowledged....but where the effects described are now emerging
A Lib Dem's Alex Cole-Hamilton shows the extent of disagreement within the party over vthe continuing policiy to push through the tram at any cost by the councillors within the ruling coalition on the City of Edinburgh Council.
Objectors welcome statement by top Lib-Dem candidate in the battleground marginal constituency of Edidinburgh Central as he says about the Tram project:
“I wish to see no more time or money wasted on this ill fated project.”