A £6 billion Forth rail tunnel between Kirkcaldy and Leith is proposed by Greens

Forth tunnel

A £6 billion Forth rail tunnel between Kirkcaldy and Leith is proposed by Greens

Peter Keenan

The Greens and their crazy plans to save 25 minutes. Imagine announcing a plan about travel bang in the middle of a “stay at home” message. If that doesn’t tell you they don’t have a clue, nothing will.

Jon Clark

These politicians are just really great at spending our money on shiny new things, the bigger and seemingly more grandiose and adventurous the project and the more it costs the better they all like it. What could possibly go wrong?

Kathy Aliberti

A better link would be from Kirkcaldy to Cockenzie, relieving all non-Edinburgh traffic from using the Edinburgh bypass. The defunct Cockenzie power station could become the tunnel terminal, from there it is just a couple of miles to the A1.

John Williamson

Greens are just back-of-house SNP mob, they can't even do the cycle nonsense properly between them, how the hell are they going to work under water? What an absolute waste of money that would be, particularly when it wasn't that long ago we went over on a hovercraft. Spend money on that if you must do this link, I'm sure the money would buy a lot of hovercraft.

Laine Steedman

They should have done than rather than the trams and second road bridge.

Barry Kirk

And yet again Kelty gets ignored. Why is Kelty not getting a canal in the sky, like Babylon? The Lib Dem guy I spoke to said Cardenden would also get its own stop on the London Underground. Not sure I'll be voting for them, their promises are a bit "grey".

Quyen Lam

Pretty sure there are much better uses for £6 billion.

Kate Douglas

What a joke. They couldn't get a simple bridge right, so how are they going to do a tunnel underwater? Another project to add to the disaster list.

Gareth Ha

Maybe spend the money on the Edinburgh bypass where it is needed!

Liam Cassidy

Yeah, let’s waste another £22 billion on something we do not need. It’s not like there’s been a bridge that’s worked for 130 years ..... Pretty sure we can suck some money out of the NHS to help get started.

Angela Sherry

I always said a tunnel would be better.

Lucien Romano

This is only marginally less stupid and impractical than Boris' bridge to Ireland, so well done the Greens!

Lioslaith Rose

I went to a site meeting for "the new Forth Bridge" they wanted back in the 90s representing Eastern Scottish buses. I said we need a tunnel, they said the geology is all wrong under there. But hey, if monks in the 1100s could get half way across digging for coal, and a complete tunnel was there in the sixties, it must be okay. Turns out the person wanting the contract didn’t build tunnels!

Congested city

Edinburgh named UK's most congested city for fourth year

Lucien Romano

Well done Edinburgh council. Your fixation with anti-car ideology over common sense has clearly been an underwhelming success!

Diane Little Hepburn

It didn't help that Edinburgh council removed the trees from Princes Street Gardens Trees are vital. As the biggest plants on the planet, they give us oxygen, store carbon, stabilise the soil and give life to the world's wildlife. And removed them from Leith Walk for a damn tram that takes up half the road.

Drew Walker

And all they do is narrow the arterial roads for bikes. Well, that will help enormously. No comments from the Transport Convenor? How unusual.

Gary Dickson

Close and restrict half the streets and of course it’s gonna be an issue.

Fede Marsili

The streets of Edinburgh city aren't fit for the number of vehicles on them. I'm with the Council on their policy of taxing private cars to push people to take public transport.

Peter Anderson

Defo top for roadworks also, which massively contributed to the problem.

Joy Doogan

All part of a master plan to bring in congestion charges.

Kacey Milne

Council narrowing roads, closing others, time restrictions are a deliberate ploy to restrict cars from the city centre to enable a tourist utopia, and to hang with the residents. We need to mobilise to our city back.

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