People in Edinburgh have "slowly fallen in love" with the city's trams since the extension of the line to Newhaven was opened last year, transport convener Scott Arthur has claimed. He said much of the "negativity" surrounding the initial tram project had gone and residents were enjoying using the trams. "The main complaint I get from people about the tram is they can't get on the thing," he said. The tram route was originally intended to be built all the way from the airport to Newhaven as...
BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times DELOIS AND DONALD MASON Sr. Live: McCalla Married: June 15, 1974 Met: June 1970, in Roosevelt City, a Birmingham area neighborhood. Delois had just graduated from George Washington Carver High School and had moved in with her father. To pass time, she would sit on the […]
A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the death of a 53-year-old man who was hit by a tram in Edinburgh nearly six years ago. Bus driver Carlos Hernan Correa Palacio died after he was struck by a tram as he walked across the Saughton Mains crossing on his way home from work on September 11, 2018. Last year Edinburgh Trams Ltd admitted breaching health and safety legislation and was fined £240,000. Prosecutors said there were no issues with the tram driver, and the vehicle worked as it...