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Pruning protesters in anti-trams battle cry



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Published Date: 21 July 2008
RESIDENTS behind a campaign to stop trees being cut back as part of the tram works are set to issue a battle cry to others affected by the project in the city.
Those living in the leafy west end are objecting to plans to prune trees which overlap from private gardens on Landsdowne Crescent, so diverted traffic can pass by more easily.

They even offered to relinquish some of their £160-a-year parking bays to ensure the trees weren't interfered with.

The traffic diversion, which will see more buses and lorries pass down the residential terrace, is a result of proposed tram works at Haymarket.

Now resident Kenneth Murray wants to bring together residents and businesses who are opposed to the trams scheme and form a campaign group.

He said: "It's time now to bring everyone together because there are different pockets all over the city where residents and businesses are up in arms about this.

"If a group was formed as a proper organisation as a platform to put views across it could make a difference to people."

The campaign has already won the support of a prominent west end resident, former judge Lord McCluskey.





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1

Foo,

ejinbara 21/07/2008 13:05:21
What a bunch of losers!

Tree's getting pruned, so what!? Get a life!
2

I love to eat Sellotape,

21/07/2008 13:41:55
"They even offered to relinquish some of their £160-a-year parking bays to ensure the trees weren't interfered with."

That's all we need. People who interfere with trees.

3

go boil ur heid,

21/07/2008 15:03:42
only a lib/lab idea would destroy the environment so they can help the environment no wonder cancer mc connel jumped the ship when he did
4

Gorgie_Tony,

Edinburgh 21/07/2008 19:45:00
Yes well - we all know who authorised this project - the very ones who said they would scrap the tram project if elected. Yes - the SNP. Now all you muppets that voted for these clowns - hands up. Now go and stand in the corner for two hours. Did you honestly believe what Salmond promised in his fantasy election manifesto? I have a brain - I certainly wasn't taken in by it. Remember - you voted for the idiots - you made your bed - now lie in it!!
5

Andrew,

21/07/2008 21:56:46
Do the tree-pruning moaners ever get a hair cut?? Mmm??
6

Danny Mather,

Edinburgh 22/07/2008 13:09:52
#4 not strictly true. Actually, not remotely true either.

The SNP opposed the trams and voted against them. The Bill for the trams was passed by the votes of the majority opposition parties.

It's called democracy.
7

Leila,

Edinburgh 22/07/2008 15:54:35
#4 Tony: sorry but I can't understand your logic. Neither could I understand your logic all the times you have repeated this comment over the past year. The only party which promised to cancel the tram scheme was the SNP. Therefore if someone wanted to vote for a party which would cancel trams, they had to vote for the SNP. After the elections the SNP for political reasons went back on their promise to cancel trams. How can anyone who voted for the SNP in good faith possibly be blamed for that?
8

Ronster,

edinburgh 23/07/2008 13:12:57
Go on spit the dummy out.
Delay the project and cost us all a fortune.
Q:Why didn't these people start a campaign years ago when they had the chance?
A:Because they couldn't give a monkeys about anyone else, their only gripe with the tram is the inconvenience they will suffer for a couple of months while the great un washed (you and I) using their precious streets !!!!
LAY OFF OUR TRAMS !!!!!
THE VAST MAJORITY STILL WANT THEM !!!! AND VOTED FOR THEM !!!!!!!
9

David C,

Sunny Fife 26/07/2008 12:51:37
Why did Edinburgh Council choose the most expensive way to go about installing tram tracks. If they had followed the Edinburgh Tram Company suggestion and installed the LR55 rail, none of the current chaos would have been necessary. Check out the website www.edinburgh-tram.co.uk
10

Rap,

Haymarket 28/07/2008 19:20:44
#8 Ronster,
The reason these people did not start a campaign a year ago is because no-one knew this was an issue until June of this year. June 2008. Okay? Every aspect of the tram works runs so close to the wire that there is no opportunity for consultation with residents, never mind informing them. So, people find out about schemes like this with very little notice, and unsurprisingly they are upset. If the re-routing of traffic around the crescents is delayed then it's because there was insufficient time to warn residents of these actions, so at least be objective and realise TIE must accept some reasonability.

As for another of your incorrect assumptions, these people are not necessarily anti-tram. And the works in the Haymarket area are likely to last until the end of next year (first the utilities and then the tram lines). So, get your facts correct when you stand on your little orange box and start spouting.
11

thibor,

edinburgh 02/08/2008 22:31:31

Can anyone tell me why the trams were removed from service in the 1920,s ? , it could not have been because they were inneficient ...........could it? .
12

Ian down under,

Kawerau 04/08/2008 01:54:36
#11 they were taken off in the 1950s but only in Britain because our oil companies were a bit more powerful. So we got cars and belching diesel buses and congestion. These funny Europeans kept their trams, modernised them and kept their cities moving.
It is a unique UK thing to destroy something good, then realise it was a mistake and then put it all back again.
Look at some of the rail lines which have had to be reopened with spectacular success. The mistake is not building a tram line /network, it was in getting rid of them in the first place.

 

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