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INDEPENDENT MSP CALLS FOR EXTRA TRAM FUNDING TO HELP EDINBURGH THROUGH FINANCIAL CRISIS Margo MacDonald, Independent MSP for the Lothians, has called on the Scottish Government to give more money to the Trams for Edinburgh project to ensure that line 1b (the spur to Granton) goes ahead. Ms MacDonald claims that this would help Edinburgh through the current economic crisis.
Ms MacDonald said: “It might be a sensible use of any extra money would be to make sure the loop is completed. It would keep people in work, keep the economy ticking over. We have had the initial upheaval and pain and disruption, so at a time when economic activity in the city will be reduced and we are desperately looking for ways in which we can get people back to work it might make sense to do the whole thing now."
Source: The Scotsman
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