Susan Clark, Deputy Project Director

The technical challenges of delivering Total length 24km •18.5km first phase •5.5km second phase

Connects to City Centre

Links with development areas in north & west Edinburgh Benefits of trams

• The runs from Edinburgh Airport terminal to Newhaven

• A 10 minute service, priority over other road users and a two-way capacity of 3,000 passengers per hour

• Fully integrated with - one timetable, one ticket, one price

• The tram will connect key development areas across the city - West Edinburgh and The Waterfront via the City Centre

• Edinburgh’s economy will continue to grow, with more jobs, more people and more travel - without trams the city’s roads will not cope Benefits of trams

• Upgrading utilities • Over 49km of utilities across the city meaning faster broadband, fewer leaks and more reliable services

• Improving air quality and reducing congestion • Zero on-street emissions • Reduces car journeys • Less energy per passenger kilometre than other modes of urban mass transport (UK Carbon Account for Transport, 2009)

• Benefits vs Costs • Trams have a benefit to cost ratio of 1.77, meaning a return of £1.77 in terms of benefits for every £1 that is being spent (FBC v2, 2007) The route

• 18.5km long • 23 tram stops • 45 minutes to travel entire route from Newhaven to the Airport

• Trams to / from the airport at every stop every 10 minutes • 20 minutes from Haymarket to the Airport on a dedicated track... so no traffic jams, hold-ups or ‘rush hour’ The trams

• 27 vehicles • 43 metres long • 250 passengers per tram • Testing underway on completed vehicles

• 78 seats, 2 dedicated wheelchair spaces • 100% low floor for buggies and stepless boarding • Wide gangways and room for luggage • 70kph maximum speed (50mph) Construction – what you don’t see

• Code Of Construction Practice

• Stakeholders

• Traffic Management Code Of Construction Practice

COCP inspections • Hours

• Site tidiness and employee conduct

• Noise and vibration Traffic Management

• Planning / Approvals / Implementation

• Who’s involved

• Traffic modelling

Edinburgh Park Viaduct Depot Gogar Depot interior Mandy Haeburn-Little Communications & Customer Service Director

The public challenge of delivering / not delivering the trams

Overground Underground Manderston Street Elder Street Archaeology The Crawley Tunnel From there to here re-opening Princes Street

Princes Street fountain Bjorn the Bear Mr Snow Edinburgh Sparkles 2009 So that was that fixed wasn’t it? Dude, where’s my pavement

Viaduct Tram veterans

John Inkster Ernest Mores Tramformers Roundels Edinburgh Sparkles 2010 City dressing

First tram on Princes Street Collaboration slides