Sound Off – and they did!

Tonight’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 trams. They will cost a lot of money and they won’t serve all of Edinburgh – not only that, there’s the upheaval it’s going to cause.
Margaret [...]

“Third World” City Centre pavement

It 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 in the middle of the “World Heritage Site” is nice ‘third world’ pavements and the council doesn’t even know they exist.

Gerry Ritchie, buildings adviser to [...]

“The locals are getting humpty”

That 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 has managed to get hold of through the FOI act. It also shows the threats that flew from the Council’s full-time public realm co-ordinator [...]

It’s innovative – but it doesn’t work

Currently 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 1.5 kilometers) and has had to be closed twice for emergency repairs.
But users complained the ride was too rough, and the busway [...]

Audit Scotland report blasts council

The 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 city but Audit Scotland highlight the problems for the rest of the country to view.
Audit Scotland’s findings revealed that 56 per cent of the [...]

Tram Plan gives Labour bloody nose

The 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 about a shocking 6% of the vote in the district.
What made matters worse and is telling for the future is that the appearance [...]