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Lesley Hinds to replace Malcolm Chisolm as MSP

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  • Started 11 years ago by kaputnik
  • Latest reply from LaidBack

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  1. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Not until 2016, but Cllr. Hinds has been selected by the Labour party to replace Malcolm Chisolm who is standing down from the Edinburgh North Holyrood seat.

    Of course, she still has to get elected first.

    "Malcolm Chisholm to step down at next Holyrood election"
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26916299

    Posted 11 years ago #
  2. Min
    Member

    Ah that is a shame, he is a good and hardworking MSP. Still I was kind of expecting it since he is hitting retirement age.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  3. crowriver
    Member

    Aye, he's good. Also has a bit of an independent streak. Hard act to follow, I'd say.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  4. Morningsider
    Member

    I'm sure all the good people of Leith will have forgotten about the years of tram related road works that Lesley was responsible for come election time...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  5. chdot
    Admin

    That depends which bits they choose to remember.

    The tram was started by Labour, and they may well be 'responsible' for elements of the organisational and legal contract deficiencies, but it actually fell apart while the LibDems were saying "on time, on budget'.

    Labour then tried to stop the part-line at Haymarket.

    Arguably LH and Sue Bruce made 'completion' (current version) possible.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  6. gembo
    Member

    Everyone in Edinburgh will now love the trams to bits. Except poster shop man at Haymarket. But the folk of leith, all that upheaval and no track? Perhaps they will be satisfied with the great on road cycling infrastructure to follow? They will still vote for L Hinds.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  7. chdot
    Admin

    "Everyone in Edinburgh will now love the trams to bits."

    So you keep saying.

    Still won't get used by most people - unless they ban all buses from Princes Street!

    Posted 11 years ago #
  8. neddie
    Member

    We have to be thankful for small things. The trams did not make it down the Roseburn Path/NEPN, which would have absolutely decimated cycling in Edinburgh. Especially given their record on catering for cyclists,

    Posted 11 years ago #
  9. gembo
    Member

    True I have been predicting the volte face for many years as I experienced the phenomenon in Manchester and then again in Dublin.

    Granted the number loving trams = Entire population of Aedinburgh minus Poster Guy

    Whereas number of people using the trams will be smaller. But the people using them will use them all the time, people will cycle to tram stops and lock up their bikes in vast underground bike garages accessed from street ( imported from Tokyo). Swathes of west Edinburgh will take micro scooters down the hill and catch tram into town. Brompton will start selling special tram folders. ( bikes to take on trams, not folding trams, that would be wrong)

    It is going to be great.

    (Some of this might be slightly exaggerated)

    Posted 11 years ago #
  10. LaidBack
    Member

    Yes... the average tram user may well be a park and rider. Expect more big P+R tarmac swathes out west.

    Much of this could have been done with additional electrified rail tracks beside the existing railway but where's the entertainment in that?!
    if it had stopped at Haymarket then it would have defied all logic - so at least LH was right to try and deliver trams that would run on the street.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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