Regarding the £776 m, 14 Kms, 2014 Edinburgh Tram, "I always saw it as a vanity project and, frankly, a green folly, as Edinburgh already had (and has) one of the best city-run bus services in the country. I think it was about looking green rather than being green." Author, environmentalist and broadcaster, from Govan.
The Metro extension down Broad Street is even more expensive than the construction cost for the Corporation Street tram. The Edgbaston extension is £75 m/Kms. This is 12 times the cost of Scotland's REBUILT Borders Railway when it opened in 2015 for £353 m for 57 Kms!
Metro is a VERY fancy showpiece, grossly extravagant and over-indulgent at a time when belt-tightening is needed for the Brexit/Covid/Climate/Ecological crises.
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"The biggest White Elephant ever to have happened to our City, has done untold damage to the economy and the cost will never be recuperated, just a fancy showpiece for the deluded clowns in power."
from B10Forever
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/what-broad-street-looks-like-19264591
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