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The terms of reference for the inquiry were as follows: [9] To inquire into the delivery of the Edinburgh Trams project (“the project”), from proposals for the project emerging to its completion, including the procurement and contract preparation, its governance, project management and delivery structures, and oversight of the relevant contracts, in order to establish why the project ...
City authorities and Scottish government ministers were chiefly to blame for a “litany of avoidable failures,” according to an official inquiry into the delayed and over-budget Edinburgh tram ...
The inquiry was set up in 2014 to examine why the tram scheme went more than double over budget and took so long to complete. Edinburgh tram scheme had ‘litany of avoidable failures’, inquiry ...
Amid the Edinburgh Trams controversy, Tie received heavily criticism from various parties for its handling of the project. [10] [24] During late 2011, Tie was disbanded as a company; Transport for Edinburgh took over responsibility for the Edinburgh Trams scheme from the defunct organisation.
Edinburgh Trams is a tramway in Edinburgh, Scotland, operated by Edinburgh Trams Ltd. It is an 18.5-kilometre (11.5 mi) line between Newhaven and Edinburgh Airport, with 23 stops. [2] [3] [4] A modern tram network for Edinburgh was proposed by Edinburgh Council in 1999, with detailed design work being performed over the next decade ...
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Diagram of Line 1 proposed in 2001 The planned route of the tram line along the waterfront at Granton. Line 1 was planned to be a 15.25-kilometre (9.48 mi) circular route with 22 stops running around the northern suburbs, following a route from the City Centre, St Andrew Square, York Place, Picardy Place, down Leith Walk to Leith and Newhaven.
The Edinburgh trams are bi-directional, 42.8 metres (140 ft 5 in) long [1] [6] and built with 100% low-floor access to meet UK Rail Vehicle Access Regulations for disabled people. Passenger capacity is 250 – 78 seated, 170 standing and 2 wheelchair spaces [1] – and the trams will be fitted with CCTV. [7] [5] Sideways view of a tram