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City 'is coping' with tram work



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Published Date: 08 April 2008
THE managing director of Lothian Buses has hailed the way the city is coping with the traffic diversions in place for the tram line.
Ian Craig said the mix of professionalism from those involved, extensive publicity and drivers taking alternative routes was ensuring the diversions around the city centre were working.

Writing in the Lothian Buses staff magazine, he added: "Unfortunately for the doomsday sayers, the world did not end on March 1 as a result of the closure of Shandwick Place.

"Fortunately for the rest of us, life has, in fact, carried on remarkably unchanged despite the extensive diversions that are now in place. That is not to say life is easy out there – far from it."





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1

Young Bob,

IN YOUR FACE MOFO 08/04/2008 16:08:57
That's because people are staying away from the city in their droves...!

"Fortunately for the rest of us, life has, in fact, carried on remarkably unchanged"

What an arrogant conceited fool....

What an amazingly, thoughtless and tactless statement.

People with small businesses are SUFFERING.

Trade is down by half, cashflow will soon dry up and these previously profitable businesses (which actually do contribute to the city) will go under.

All so that they can replace one solitary bus service.





2

jdships,

08/04/2008 17:09:22
Mr Craig " has hailed the way the city is coping with the traffic diversions in place for the tram line."

He mus t beliving in a differnt Edinburgh to me !!
How does he respond to this ?

Thursday
1400
Boarded No14 bus at Elm Row
1450
Arrived Granton Road (Fraser Avenue)
Journey time 50 minutes
Friday
1425
Boarded No14 Foot of Leith Walk
1500
Arrived Granton Road ( Fraser Avenue)
Journey time 35 minutes.

Timetable .
No14
North Bridge to Goldenacre 14 minutes

I would award 10/10 to the drivers of both buses for their courtesy and patience - thank you !!
3

Andrew,

08/04/2008 17:31:27
I travelled via Haymarket at 15.10 today by westbound 44 bus and was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly the traffic steadily flowing!! Even Princes Street to Haymarket via Lothian Road was "just as quick" as via Shandwick Place. Even better, ROLL ON THE TRAMS!
4

Andrew,

08/04/2008 17:33:33
PS Melville Street and Queen Street/York Place etc are MUCH BETTER PLACES without all those parked cars!!!!
5

New Town Resident,

08/04/2008 18:55:39
If you go to the London Evening Standard website you can find the Fib Dem "copper" candidate for London mayor promising "green trams" if he wins. What is it with these people? Take a look at the comments! Luckily for London he's got no chance.
6

Loki - The Scourge of the Schemies,

EH1 08/04/2008 19:08:34
#3 Andrew.
Your description matches exactly that of my Accounts Payable manager who lives at Winchburgh and travels to and from work by First Bus. I believe she has contacted FirstBus at their Larbert office with a view to making the amended route along Lothian Road permanent. She says the tram will be of great benefit to her as she will be able to interchange or interlink (or something similar) at the RBS and avoid the pinch points at Corstorphine.
7

jdships,

08/04/2008 19:09:19
3 Andrew,08/04/2008
ROLL ON THE TRAMS!

Which will be of "real" benefit to approx 8% of the population of the City
What a fine return on caoital investment
8

Klaus Dubois,

Edinburgh 08/04/2008 19:29:26
I'm not for/against the trams; I'm against the p1ss poor way the council goes about organising roadworks to maximise inconvenience to the masses. Dig a hole, put some cones around it, bugg*r off for 2 week tea break, .......... seems to be the project management approach permitted.
How much inconvenience (& resultant pollution) from taking 2 months (so far) to remove a few toll booths from the Forth road bridge.
9

James (1),

08/04/2008 19:39:33
Which is it? Life has not changed or it has?

"Fortunately for the rest of us, life has, in fact, carried on remarkably unchanged despite the extensive diversions that are now in place. That is not to say life is easy out there – far from it."

So shopkeeper do not need to be given any compensation as nothing has changed for them?
More tram spin.

Why not say "trams will dramtically improve peoples lives but they will not notice any difference."

Nonsense spoken by self interest spokesman.
10

Andrew,

08/04/2008 21:26:18
7! Ironically it's those who have to travel INTO the city to work that will probably benefit MORE from a Tram system, hopefully by extensions to Livingston,
Dunfermline (new bridge/tunnel?), Portobello (hovercraft?)/Musselburgh, Edinburgh Royal/
Loanhead/Penicuik etc etc etc etc
11

techy guy,

Tranent 14/04/2008 00:59:36
Somehow, i do not think the people living and working on both Constituion Street and Shandwick place would agree with Ian Craig.
Does anyone remember when they told us they were only going to dig up 200m sections of the road at a time to minimise disruption. I may be wrong, but isnt shandwick place, lieth walk, constitition street and all the other holes in edinburgh add up to more than 200m?
12

paulr,

edinburgh 17/04/2008 08:41:25
The city is coping because we have no choice....
The people of the city do not want trams, but the council did not make the mistake of asking as they knew the trams proposal would be thrown out.

 

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