Trams - one year on


Edinburgh's great Tram Saga - or debacle - continues. Every day there is a new twist, or conflict, or delay, or somebody is flouncing around in the huff or righteous indignation. It fatigues me to try to keep up with it, so I've stopped. All I know is that the streets are still dug up, buses no longer go remotely where you expect them to, and construction workers like the one above are just as perplexed as everyone else.

When I started this blog a year ago I posted a photo of Princes Street on the day it closed to traffic for the tramworks to begin. The shot above is taken round about where the mini diggers are in that shot.

One plus point of the works is that they have brought large Lego bricks to the centre of Edinburgh.

Comments

  1. What a disaster, . The Lego bricks are great.

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  2. Hah, the guy sure looks confused what to do next. You have concrete pigs too? Known as border barriers there. Thanks, now I know that too!

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  3. when is it supposed to be finished ?

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  4. Same scene in Valenciennes few years ago. the result is pretty fine.
    http://images.google.fr/images?hl=fr&source=hp&q=tramway+valenciennes&rlz=1W1MOOI_fr&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=uoDVSvWZOdnLjAfB59iFBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CBwQsAQwAw

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  5. Oh dear, it looks no different to when I saw it in June. What a complete waste of time and money, should never have been started.

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  6. Ugh! I prefer to remember Princes Street the way it was the last time I saw it 5 years ago (yesterday).....sigh! Im way overdue for another trip over!

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  7. The first interesting picture well describes the situation.

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  8. It took Des Moines almost four years to rework the freeway. One never knew what section they were working on and where you could get off of the road. Once it is done, it is like perfect peace and quiet. What was with all the fuss?

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  9. Aaaaaagh #%*+@*$, Guuuuuuuyyyyyyyssss, no, no, no, no, Not this road, it is the other one.

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  10. Ugh! You have my sympathies. We are undergoing bridge rehab here in our little town. The bridge is on our main street (also a major highway) and has been torn up all summer. Several local residential side streets are also torn up for repair of sewer and gas lines, making it difficult to find alternate routes around town. Then, today, in addition to the bridge work, the road crew has torn up a considerable length of the road before and after the bridge. We're not sure what's going on with that, and freezing temperatures and snow are not that far off. There is no way this project will be finished before winter comes. And next year will be no better, as the opposite side of the road will need to be repaired. Growing pains!

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