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City politicans join our call for resignation

By The Basa ⋅ November 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Leading 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 time for Mr Burns to resign from his post.
and
Iain Whyte, the city’s Tory group leader, said he had lost confidence in Mr Burns overseeing transport […]

The people speak.

By The Basa ⋅ November 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

One 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. The net effect of the many closures is chaos, confusion and congestion.
Thank goodness someone is taking these council officials to task over the disgraceful mess they […]

Street Furniture Capital of the World

By The Basa ⋅ November 9, 2005 ⋅ One comment

How 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 costing of the plan and also demands that heads roll.
First head that MUST roll is that of our transport supremeo Bumbling Andrew Burns. […]

An ‘absolute nightmare’

By The Basa ⋅ November 8, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The 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 nightmare” for drivers in the city centre as pressure grows for a radical rethink of the Capital’s roads shake-up and joined the mass of […]

Urgent Changes - and you are paying!

By The Basa ⋅ November 5, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Our council leaders, when their backs are against the wall now announce further ‘urgent’ changes to the city centre nightmare that residents now face every day.
We don’t want changes - we want the £3.2 million central Edinburgh traffic management scheme scrapped and we want the heads of the people who proposed […]

Council screws injured citizens

By The Basa ⋅ November 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Stories of how the council continues to screw the citizens of the city are still coming in non-stop. The latest story is that the Council are keeping citizens waiting up to 5 years to settle the claims for residents who have been injured because the council are just not up to repairing the […]

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