Articles...
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....
Jan 16 2008
THE Audit Commission will tomorrow publish its long awaited report into the collapse of the Merseytram scheme....
Nov 14 2007
IT SEEMS that businesses will be asked to stump up for better buses, trains and trams as the Government runs scared of angry voters....
Oct 23 2007
IF Liverpool wants trams, how should they be paid for? City Editor Larry Neild investigates...
Oct 22 2007
A LEADING member of the private consortium selected to build the aborted Merseytram project last night said it would be “very straight-forward” to get the scheme up and running again....
Oct 17 2007
TALKS between Merseytravel and Government ministers into reviving the abandoned Merseytram project are continuing, the Daily Post can reveal....
Oct 17 2007
LABOUR’S fortunes have moved in exactly the opposite direction to those of England’s rugby team during the past few weeks....
Jul 20 2007
DAVID CAMERON vowed yesterday to torpedo a new government plan to revive the axed Merseytram scheme – warning it would drive away businesses and jobs....
