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Transport Dept Archive
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Cardownie aspires to bring us up to third world status
Posted on June 5, 2012 | No CommentsHow are our roads? Well our deputy council leader thinks we can just about beat Venezuela. Is he right? -
Bus lane cock-up was a … err… a cock-up
Posted on May 23, 2012 | No CommentsWhereas the normal punter in the city of Edinburgh when seeing the placement of bus lane cameras thought it was a cock-up within seconds, unfortunately it took the city council... -
Where is the Edinburgh bus lane farce going
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsTransport chiefs said that they were targeting a hard core of bus lane abusers and expected to issue around 4,000 tickets annually. With just a few weeks into the junket,... -
Two depressing things witnessed – Shame on the City’s Council!
Posted on May 11, 2009 | 4 CommentsTwo depressing things witnessed by me today as a result of poorly planned and executed tramworks fiasco / traffic diversions: Sad thing #1) Sight-impaired lady with white stick patiently standing... -
Get your ass into gear Burns – Do it now!
Posted on June 15, 2006 | 1 CommentThe city of Edinburgh’s traffic guru Andrew ‘Bumbling Andy’ Burns can be grateful he doesn’t have to be transported to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary between Liberton Drive and Kingston Avenue... -
The Trams – ooops
Posted on June 14, 2006 | No CommentsTIMETABLE OF SETBACKS June 2003: Transport chiefs admit a Scottish Executive grant of £375 million might not cover project costs. December 2003: Cost of two tram lines put at £473m,... -
So who will win?
Posted on June 7, 2006 | No CommentsWell the bids are in from the companies who will smooch up to Andrew ‘Bumbling Andy’ Burns to get the pleasure of pissing off some motorists in Edinburgh. There is... -
Council paid £4.5 million to lawyers
Posted on April 12, 2006 | 1 CommentIt seems that the trams are costing a bit more than the Council would have us believe thanks to findings made by the SNP through the Freedom of Information Act... -
Congestion charge anniversary
Posted on February 22, 2006 | No CommentsIt’s exactly a year to the day since Edinburgh said no to to the Labour administration on congestion charging. Three quarters of residents voted against the plan to charge two... -
Sound Off – and they did!
Posted on February 15, 2006 | No CommentsTonight’s Evening News’ sound off was lively. For those who missed it, here are the edited highlights: Put trams to vote I THINK they should have a referendum on the... -
“Third World” City Centre pavement
Posted on February 15, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that private buildings advisors who are not in the Council feeding trough are able to find out exactly what the problems are with the city center’s pavements. Right... -
“The locals are getting humpty”
Posted on December 23, 2005 | No CommentsThat was the word from Sergeant Kenny Milne, a senior member of the police’s traffic management section to the council about the Central Edinburgh Traffic Management scheme which Alan Roden... -
It’s innovative – but it doesn’t work
Posted on December 16, 2005 | No CommentsCurrently clutching at straws. Totally disgraced Transport supremo Andrew Burns picked up a gong recently for the ‘innovative’ but constantly breaking down busway which cost the city £10 million (for... -
Audit Scotland report blasts council
Posted on December 16, 2005 | No CommentsThe latest Audit Scotland has blasted the city council for constantly failing to meet their requirements. Citizens of the city are well aware of the shortfalls of living in the... -
Tram Plan gives Labour bloody nose
Posted on November 13, 2005 | No CommentsThe council’s ruling Labour party got yet another bloody nose in the last week thanks to the voters of the Murrayfield district. They were pushed into fourth place garnering only... -
Teflon Don Anderson got an email
Posted on November 10, 2005 | No CommentsCouncillor Anderson would have been a happy camper this morning when he opened this email: Dear Leader Anderson, Forgive me for returning, yet again, to a depressingly familiar subject –... -
City politicans join our call for resignation
Posted on November 10, 2005 | No CommentsLeading city politicians today joined with EdinburghSucks!com call earlier this week for the sacking of city transport supremo Andrew Burns. Phil Wheeler, the Liberal Democrats’ transport spokesman, agreed it was... -
The people speak.
Posted on November 10, 2005 | No CommentsOne day’s letters to the Evening News. In the last year the city centre has become an impossible maze and is horribly confusing for anyone trying to come into town.... -
Street Furniture Capital of the World
Posted on November 9, 2005 | 1 CommentHow much will the both the implementation and the reversal of our city center nightmare cost. Edinburgh Sucks demands that the citizens of Edinburgh are given a full and comprehensive... -
An ‘absolute nightmare’
Posted on November 8, 2005 | No CommentsThe Kwik-Fit founder, Sir Tom Farmer who sold his company to Ford for what is rumoured to be close to £1 billion today accused the council of creating an “absolute...


