Scrap the trams
Politicians have never hesitated to scrap defence projects and waste billions in so doing, so why should the tram project be any different? In fact, it suffers from one similarity to many defence projects, in that cost escalation has been aggravated by changes to the original scheme.
All of this bodes ill for the plans to reopen the Borders railway line, something that could only ever make sense if it was extended to Carlisle to provide a shorter alternative to the existing route for those travelling to the north-west of England.
DAVID WRAGG
Stoneyflatts
South Queensferry