Originally Posted by
willy wombat
Is there a bias in favour of Edinburgh as it's where the MSPs hang out?
It’s worth remembering that local transport initiatives are driven by the councils, not the government. If Glasgow City Council wanted to take forward a tram project, it could certainly attempt to do as Edinburgh did, by seeking the powers and the finance.
By contrast, it’s Transport Scotland, an angency of the Scottish Government, that promotes projects related to the rail network, and it’s the Scottish Government that cancelled both EARL and GARL. The SNP Government were also hostile towards the Edinburgh Trams project, I think it’s fair to say. So, I definitely don’t think the Government have any sort of Edinburgh bias — the idea in itself it’s just an easy way for certain folks to play victim.