Wednesday 22 August 2007: Room 101 - Trams

Edinburgh trams to be more precise.

I'm all for public transport and reducing our carbon footprint. I get the bus to and from work every day and use the train rather than fly or drive.

The Edinburgh Tram project has been flawed from the beginning:

-For the cost we could replace all of the the buses with environmentally friendly ones and probably make bus transport free for everyone for ever.

-The disruption of building the infrastructure is going to go on for years.

-No-one asked us if we wanted trams. We had a vote on congestion charging but not trams - how does that work?

-The tram lines will reduce bus services to alternate destinbations along the route. I'd have to take a tram and then a bus (but if you saw my blip yesterday - we're moving). This would increase the cost of my journey - a tax on living on the route.

-The tram lines will affect parking on the route - probably meaning permit parking (a tax to live on the route).

-They wouldn't make any difference to the log-jam that is princes street at 18:00, which is buses only already. The trams aren't going to fly!

I'm sure others are advocates, but trams are defo in my Room 101!

In fact, I feel so strongly that I chose this instead of a great shot of Edinburgh castle in the morning sunshine that I got on the way to work :-)

Rant over.

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