After yesterday's report by the Auditor General (report and press release here), the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link is presumably dead in the water, in that SNP, Tories and Greens will vote against it.
The tram line is more difficult to predict, in that only the SNP are opposed. Brian Taylor suggests that the SNP Executive might be prepared to let it go ahead, if only in the spirit of wider parliamentary harmony. He may well be right.
But, even if the tram project surmounts this immediate hurdle and is allowed to proceed, what long-term future can it have when the organisation (the Executive) providing the bulk of the project funding is known to have serious doubts about its value for money? There is a multitude of ways to kill a project - or simply to let it die ...
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