Edinburgh Tram Firm Seeks Extra Gbp10m for Network Funding Request Draws Blank with Government Funding Request Draws Blank with Government Transport: Expansion
Sunday Herald › September 16, 2008
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THE company tasked with operating trams in the capital is to ask the Scottish government and Edinburgh council for an additional GBP10 million. The money is so it can make preparations to extend the network to the southeast of the city.
Transport Initiatives Edinburgh (TIE) hopes to persuade finance secretary John Swinney to change his pledge to spend "not a penny more" than the government's original GBP500m investment. It seeks money that would contribute to two extensions.See the full content of this document
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Edinburgh Tram Firm Seeks Extra Gbp10m for Network Funding Request Draws Blank with Government Funding Request Draws Blank with Government Transport: Expansion
The southeast extension, Line 3, would run from the city centre past the university King's Buildings to Little France. Line 1B would run from Roseburn to Granton on the waterfront.
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