Articles...
May 3 2008
A GROUP of the region’s leading businessmen and politicians last night came out in support of a renewed bid for Merseytram....
Apr 19 2008
A FRESH bid for government funding for Merseytram is likely to be submitted in the second half of this year....
Apr 18 2008
AN ATTEMPT to get the troubled Merseytram scheme back on track is due to be launched today....
Feb 19 2008
MERSEYSIDE local authorities were warned that “everyone needs to get on board” if trams are to become a reality....
Feb 18 2008
EXCLUSIVE: Trams will today be put back at the heart of future transport on Merseyside – despite already having cost £70m without a single piece of track being laid....
Feb 18 2008
THE constant on-off story of Merseyside’s tram system was one of the region’s great debacles of recent times, so it is surprising – when so many of us will have naturally assumed it was dead in the water – to see it back on the agenda this week....
Jan 21 2008
TWO Merseyside public bodies spent taxpayers’ money on consultants and legal advisors fighting each other over the region’s failed tram scheme, the Daily Post can reveal....
Jan 17 2008
WEAK management and decision-making led to huge sums of public money being committed to the failed Merseytram project, a damning report concludes today....
Jan 17 2008
IT IS a question most people hold an opinion on – does Merseyside need a tram network? It is more than two years since Transport Secretary Alistair Darling pulled the plug on Merseytram, yet still it will not go gently into that good night....
Jan 16 2008
TRANSPORT bosses spent £70m of taxpayers’ money on the Merseytram fiasco - without a single piece of track being laid....
