Tag: Edinburgh Trams
Five things you need to know today
The Council meets this morning at the behest of the Lord Provost who has called a special meeting today only to discuss trams, so you will forgive us if our article today also simply...
Views from The City Chambers today
Today we have interviewed the leader of the Conservative Group to find out what he thinks will happen at the special meeting of the council being held at The City Chambers tomorrow. We found...
Council to hold special meeting about trams this week
The City of
Edinburgh Council has today given notice of a special meeting of the Council which has been called by the Lord Provost, to be held on Friday 2 September at 10.00am. The meeting...
Edinburgh Trams – Labouring forward?
There are actually so many puns connected with trams that even the rabbi opening the council proceedings before the council meeting on Thursday could not resist a wee pun or two of his own.
The...
Get off at Haymarket! Council decides way forward on trams
The City of Edinburgh Council today passed a motion to stop the trams at Haymarket and give up (at least for now) the idea of borrowing around £230m to finish the tram project to...
John Carson puts the Tram question to councillors
John Carson stood last Thursday as a candidate for election to the City of Edinburgh Council, but was beaten by the SNP's Alasdair Rankin. This week, in advance of the council meeting when trams...
Friends of the Earth welcome the decision on Edinburgh trams
Friends of the Earth Scotland has responded to reports that the City of Edinburgh Council has voted to continue with the Edinburgh trams project last night.
Stan Blackley, Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth...
Trams are go
Councillors tonight voted in favour of continuing with Edinburgh's Tram project, rejecting calls for a referendum on its future.The debate was delayed from earlier in the day as the Lord Provost, George Grubb had...
Five things you need to know today
Today is all about trams. The fate of the transport project is on the agenda at the full council meeting this morning. Whether or not any decision will be taken is up for...
Live Event – Edinburgh Trams
This live event will take place from 12 noon till 2pm on Monday 20 June 2011. The Twitter hashtag is #TERtrams and if you want to have your tweets included in the timeline then...
Gogar Tram Depot – on track for completion
This week the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) visited the Gogar Tram Depot to see the construction so far. The Edinburgh Reporter was invited to send me along to report on progress.
And...
Trams or what?
The word “trams” has a special meaning to the people of Edinburgh. For more than a decade now the tram project has been the topic of many heated discussions and debates. In the last...
Trams boss resigns
tie has today announced the departure of its Chief Executive, Richard Jeffrey.
Jeffrey has been with the project since April 2009 and will step down from the role on 8th June 2011.
Speaking about the departure, Chairman...
Tram update at Council meeting – 16th May 2011
The tram update meeting came to an abrupt end when the SNP accepted an addendum by Labour.
The addendum stated: "The council instructs the Chief Executive, Sue Bruce, to seek absolute clarification on the new...
Edinburgh Trams – comment from Federation of Small Businesses
Following the announcement from The City of Edinburgh Council that Princes Street would be closed for a further 10 month period from July to dig up and re-lay the track, the Federation of Small...
Tram Consortium update media
Yesterday's press briefing held at The City Chambers Business Centre was aimed at alerting the media to only some of the latest developments of the Edinburgh tram project. The atmosphere in the room was tinted with a glimmer of...
Edinburgh Trams update
The way forward for the Edinburgh Tram project is clearer today according to the Council, with one of the proposals agreed through the mediation process, being made public this afternoon.
Following the mutually agreed appointment...
Edinburgh Reporter chats with Council Leader Jenny Dawe
"I'm most frustrated by the trams," said Council Leader Jenny Dawe when asked about the worst thing that has happened during her time in office.
With First Minister, Alex Salmond, claiming that all the money...
Open Letter : Engineers to Council re trams
We have received an interesting email this afternoon. The following is the text of an open letter from three engineers who are concerned about the tram project:-
An open letter to The Chief Executive, City...
Edinburgh Trams – Information Commissioner’s decision
A recent decision from the Scottish Information Commissioner involves an application by Edinburgh resident, Stephen Vass, to the Information Commissioner asking for a review of his initial requests for information under the Freedom of...
Tram Meeting Attempts to ‘Gag Press’
The workshops designed to create suggestions form residents, traders and indeed any other interested parties, as to how the effects of the tram project can be solved, started this week. But they almost finished...
Moray Feuars Demand Information from Edinburgh Council
Our article Five Things You Need to Know Today mentioned that the Moray Feuars, (a group of New Town residents who have objected to the closure of Shandwick Place on the grounds of increased...
City Council given more time for Trams compulsory purchase
The Scottish Government yesterday laid before Parliament two Orders to extend the time limits for the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) to compulsorily acquire the land needed to complete its trams project.
CEC requested the...
Trams, trams and more trams
Audit Scotland have today issued an interim report into the Edinburgh Trams Project. You can read the whole report below and The Guardian Edinburgh Blog take on the report here.
Audit Scotland said:-"The City of...
New chairman to be appointed at TIE
The City of Edinburgh Council's recruitment committee has recommended Vic Emery as its preferred candidate for the role of combined chair for the boards of its two wholly owned transport companies.
Transport...
Trams update December 2010
Is there actually any good news about the trams to report? Is anything actually happening?
Well there is recent news, particularly as trams were on the agenda at the full council meeting last Thursday.
According to...
Edinburgh Trams November 2010
As any journalist knows there should be balance to each story and there are always two sides.So here are the two sides of the story surrounding what the outgoing chairman of Edinburgh Trams, David...
Edinburgh Trams chairman abdicates the hot seat
David Mackay, Chairman of Transport Edinburgh, Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams has today made public his decision to step aside, with immediate effect, from his position as Chair of all three organisations. A report...
City Car Club – also at the airport…
Edinburgh Airport has teamed up with City Car Club to provide on-site businesses and visitors to the city with 24/7 access to pay-by-the-hour self-service cars. Hot on the heels of the Streetcar...
