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The advantages that the existing tramline has brought, and the recent effects of not being able to operate the section from Princes Street to Newhaven, has demonstrated how vital Edinburgh’s trams are.

9/9/26, 11:57 am2 reposts8 likes

Transform Scotland

@transform.scot

9 Sept

The cost of not progressing the Northern section will be huge in terms of impact on modal shift, capacity, connection of areas of multiple deprivation, mobility, climate targets, congestion, health, development, housing, and economic benefit. Read the deputation: 👇 transform.scot/2026/09/09/t...

transform.scotEdinburgh’s next trams: The case for investment to protect the city’s transport gains - Transform ScotlandTransform Scotland, the national alliance for sustainable transport, has today published its written deputation to the Transport and Environment Committee on the Strategic Business Case of the North-S...

Dave McCraw

@davemccraw.bsky.social

9 Sept

The city is paying the cost of the council’s extreme lack of credibility. Nobody should trust that they’ll do an adequate job of replacing either the green space or safe active travel benefits that they have today, or it would be easier to persuade them to support it