Edinburgh tram debacle - is it pananoia

Now - a sight for sore eyes,  three guys alert, interested and totally aware and interested about their surroundings - yes - of course I am talking about the Meercats,  not the three men allegedly working on the site of the ongoing tram debacle which is now strangulating the business community in the West End and Haymarket areas of Edinburgh.  Local traders already having suffered losses from similar disruption three years ago, are now into a year of this current catastrophe with another year to try and hold out !!  time to ask the Edinburgh City Council and the Chamber of Commerce for the true statistics of the failed businesses so far.

 

I wonder what the tourists might think of the City when they pass boarded up buildings in the new "Ghost town" once the trams eventually come in on their seven mile journey from the airport.

What was more interesting,  having watched the several spoof videos on U Tube, was the black and white video about the "Demise of the Edinburgh Trams", a ninety minute fascinating documentary about the tram system in Edinburgh, dating back from the late 1800's till it finally closed in November 1946.  At one time there were forty seven miles of tram lines around the city running as far out as Colinton, Port Seaton, Fairmilehead and Granton -  just amazing footage and well worth a "gander".