Work will start on setting up the site for the next phase of the trams to Newhaven project this weekend - your views

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Work will start on setting up the site for the next phase of the trams to Newhaven project this weekend

Susan Thomson

I’ve never understood why there is a tram needed from Leith to Newhaven. Surely it would have been better going from Leith to Portobello? Although personally I don’t think we need them at all.

Jon Clark

The majority of major roads in Edinburgh are barely better than farm tracks. This is compounded by the council’s intentional and deliberate attempts to create significant congestion to justify their intended congestion charges. Trams Phase 1 has cost us £1 billion so far and Phase 2, supposed to cost £205m, will undoubtedly be twice that before it’s finished.They claim to have no money, but lend to other councils and they can always find money for trams.

Gordon Livingstone

Yes , however this is only the second time it’s been dug up, we still need to wait until the third and fourth times. The Edinburgh councillors, planners and committees were not to blame the last time and shall not be to blame this time! Edinburgh rate payers must pay some very large sums of money.

Margaret Milne

Oh well, that is something to look forward to (not). How have the council got the nerve to promote this when businesses are going down the tubes, roads are an absolute disgrace and poverty in and around Edinburgh is at an all time low? Pitiful!

Helen Ross

So Edinburgh council are struggling in this awful time, their great Lothian Buses are struggling and I've heard may be closing their Seafield depot. Yet they have the money to keep on building tram lines, which they say would cost more to cancel.

Tia Stockdale

After this lockdown Ocean Terminal won’t be worth going down to, unless you want to visit H&M. Half of Leith Walk will be boarded up and poverty will be rife. The clowncil is still going ahead with trams – for whom?

Mags Minty

If they did it through lockdown it might look like it's getting somewhere. I haven't seen two people working together. If others companies can work outside during lockdown, why not people doing trams works?

Steven Mcdonald

It would have been better keeping the money for decent roads and pavements.

Ismay Murray Brameld

Slowly but surely our beautiful city is being turned into a slum. Princes Street is hellish, none of the lovely old shops, where you could spend all day browsing.

Stuart Kellett

Surely a tram line to Queensferry and Livingstone would make much more sense.

Brian Monaghan

Utility clearance was carried out on Leith Walk when the initial tram project began many years ago. Who is being paid a second time to do what has already been done?

Anne Robson

They should never have taken them away in the first place. They would have worked better than all the millions of cars on the road just now, grrrr!

Eric Morrison

Another disaster - we have a great bus service second to none.

Níall Páraig Ó Treasaigh

With luck, most folk will be vaccinated by then and there might actually be some passengers for it!

David Dingo O’Connor

About as great an idea as the new St James Centre.

Robbie Gullane

That will be relaying the road due to the first attempt not being deep enough; the second will be made once the resurfaced layer has cured.

William Manson

As it going to take a few year, this isn’t essential work, so should not be happening just now.

Paul Cuthbert

I’m not the brightest lamp in the street, but why could they not have done it in stages? Like, blitz Constitution Street first, then Leith Walk or vice versa? Surely that would be less of an impact on the roads and local businesses. The whole of Leith is a nightmare to get round.

Ali Bryson

Get on with it, then connect it to the South Suburban railway as well to allow city rail services.

Lewis Alexander Lach

Trams for what, for all the ghosts to ride this pandemic for free? Could have used that money to build hospitals and allow lighter restrictions to keep the economy going, but they spend money on something nobody is gonna use.

Bob Leponge

Utterly pointless waste of taxpayers money and the end of many Leith shops, bars and restaurants.