alcam
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No knowledge if A9 was involved ? As far as I'm aware the tram thing was Edinburgh council project . Nothing to do with the politics but when SNP won majority in the council over Labour they tried to cancel the trams but , contractually , that wasn't possible .First before I start I am not an SNP fan, but I did support them on this Alcam.
When the SNP first came to power in Scotland there was debate as too wether or not we should build the vanity project, or upgrade the A9 to dual carriageway all the way from Perth to Inverness. The SNP were a minority government then, they wanted to upgrade the A9, but I reckon out of spite Labour, the Lib Dems, and the Tories voted for the vanity project. All these years later we are still upgrading the A9 in stages, but if we had abandoned the vanity project there would have been a dual carriageway by now between Perth and Inverness, and not only would it have greatly improved travel to the Highlands, but we would have saved many lives. The vanity project was not only a waste of money, it is incomplete, and created havoc for years whilst being installed.
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Upgrading A9 'more relevant than trams' campaigner says
A campaigner for improvements to the A9 says improving the route is more relevant than giving Edinburgh trams.www.bbc.co.uk
All the above may be a crock of keech of course