Trams to Newhaven consultants to receive £655,000 in contract extensions - your views

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Trams to Newhaven consultants to receive £655,000 in contract extensions

Lioslaith Rose

Consultants, as in, not actual work being done just consulting on work being done? We don’t have Scottish consultants? There isn’t a street you can push a wheelchair down safely anywhere, potholes to hell and paying compensation for this through the roof. And every year new bus shelters are everywhere because the bus shelter department didn’t spend their budget and don’t want to lose it. Worst of all, they only opened three public toilets in the whole of Midlothian because they said they couldn’t afford to man them at a time when hygiene is crucial!

Graeme Robertson

It’s only public money that council taxpayers have strived hard to earn. The council have a god-given right to push it down the drain in any way it sees fit. Anyone that voted for this administration from hell is out of their tiny minds.

Mark Fairbairn

Pretty sure most of Edinburgh has seen this coming, except the council, what a surprise. Pay council tax to be squandered on trams - why, when the roads and paths need sorted and housing is on its knees? Other council services no doubt have been cut back or cancelled through lack of funding, but not the trams - just throw more public money at them!

Lucien Romano

How good of the council to agree a contract of such generous terms with public money, which could have been spent on bringing essential services for residents up to scratch. If this unnecessary vanity project comes in at less than three times its original price, it will be a miracle.

Simon Saorsa-Alba

Glad to see they have learned the lessons from the past.

Ken Johnston

For the cost of the trams, Lothian Buses and its fellow companies could have replaced their entire fleet with versatile and efficient hybrid or hydrogen-powered buses. Trams are not for the future, flexible hydrogen or electric buses are.

Craig Jones

And expect another council tax rise.

Bill Whyte

Is this cost included in the £200+ million that this waste of more money is costing us?

Karen Finlay

Just like the Scottish parliament and the new Sick Kids hospital, there’s a pattern forming here.

Sadat Ali

Trams will never make their money back, total waste of tax payers’ money.

Pentlands Hills

Pentland Hills park is a wonderful place blighted by parking problems and littering, says Steve Cardownie

Kathy Aliberti

A shuttle bus is a good idea, but from where? Won't this simply transfer the parking issue to the residential streets below the hills? And wasn't this entirely foreseeable when we were all commanded to stay local. Almost a year has passed and only now are the committee considering solutions. It didn't help that they shut the ranger centre, the toilet and took away the catering van, making the park cowboy country instead of a managed environment. Not easy to make improvements that's for sure.

Stuart McDonald

Same up and down the country I’m afraid. How’s this for a middle class problem - a dog waste bin packed full of Starbucks and Costa coffee cups. Take your rubbish home.

Ser Glynn

We all have a duty to both respect and look after our countryside.

Mark Fairbairn

Moaning about people going up the hills not being good for nature – where is the new ski complex and hotel hub getting built, in the city centre? Use some of that tram money to put in buckets and better parking or at least new double yellow lines. If it's a problem, hire more rangers, it's not like the Pentlands are brand new.

Glenys Mclaren

Unless you get to these sites early parking is a major problem. People do litter, especially the young who weren’t brought up with “keep Britain tidy”. The worst offenders are dog owners who think the poo fairy comes and takes their bags away.

Mark English

This is more about a certain group of people thinking they own the hills and they don’t like the fact they have become busy - 99.9% of people visiting respect the hills.

Liz Cann

A park and ride would help ease the situation.

Zor Maung

People carry all the stuff to enjoy outdoor leisure, why can't they carry the stuff back with them?