Letter: Trams scandal
While it is clearly true, as he says, that problems are to be expected on lengthy and complex projects, it is barely credible that a project can be so mismanaged that approximately 86 per cent of the budget is spent to complete 18 per cent of the work. This is incompetence on a grand scale. It needs also to be set against the recent completion of a new tram system in Bergen, Norway on time and within budget. Mr Jeffrey states that there will be a time and place for reviewing the lessons of this project.
I hope that at that time the culpable individuals will be held to account. In China they would be executed. In the US they would be hounded through the courts. I wonder what will happen here? Nothing, I expect.
DONALD McBRIDE
Craigleith Hill Crescent
Edinburgh