Last Updated: 03 April 2003 11:28 AM
Source: Edinburgh Evening News
Location: Edinburgh

Source: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com


.....And while he welcomes the Scottish Executive’s announcements last
month on funding to bring back trams to Edinburgh and the go-ahead for
a rail link to the airport, he wants them to be put in place
faster....

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> .....And while he welcomes the Scottish Executive’s

Who?

Angus

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"People are fed up with these promises always being round the corner. They 
just want to see some diggers constructing these things."


Some people are fed up seeing diggers constructing these things!

Z

In article <g0rc94$6t1$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, Zimmy <x@y.z> wrote:
>Some people are fed up seeing diggers constructing these things!

I'd vote for a party that imposed a moratorium on all new construction
in Edinburgh.

-- Richard
-- 
:wq

Richard Tobin wrote:

> In article <g0rc94$6t1$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, Zimmy <x@y.z> wrote:
>> Some people are fed up seeing diggers constructing these things!
> 
> I'd vote for a party that imposed a moratorium on all new construction
> in Edinburgh.
> 
> -- Richard

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  |  I AGREE WITH RICHARD  |
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-- 
Mike Dickson, Edinburgh

Free Music Project: http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
Or http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/

Mike Dickson  wrote in
news:69e1hsF31clq7U1@mid.individual.net: 

> Richard Tobin wrote:
> 
>> In article <g0rc94$6t1$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, Zimmy <x@y.z>
>> wrote: 
>>> Some people are fed up seeing diggers constructing these things!
>> 
>> I'd vote for a party that imposed a moratorium on all new
>> construction in Edinburgh.
>> 
>> -- Richard
> 
>   +------------------------+
>  |                        |
>  |  I AGREE WITH RICHARD  |
>  |                        |
>   +------------------------+
> 

From a commedian at the Fringe a few years ago:

"Edinburgh will look great when they've finished building it"

Mister Niceguy  wrote in 
news:Xns9AA3E6CA9A7CAniceguyonzetnet@194.247.47.119:

 
> From a commedian at the Fringe a few years ago:
> 
> "Edinburgh will look great when they've finished building it"
> 

So not a very original comedian then. That's been said about many places 
over the years, usually by people returning from holiday to said place.

-- 
Graeme

Mister Niceguy  wrote
innews:Xns9AA3E6CA9A7CAniceguyonzetnet@194.247.47.119:

# From a commedian at the Fringe a few years ago:
# "Edinburgh will look great when they've finished building it"

On 20 May, 13:39, Graeme Dods  wrote:

> So not a very original comedian then. That's been said about many places
> over the years, usually by people returning from holiday to said place.


And ratepayers have to pay for this tripe in order to bring foreign
tourists here!

Ken Johnson

Graeme Dods  wrote in 
news:Xns9AA4D2282FD22graemedodsgmailcom@203.59.27.131:

> Mister Niceguy  wrote in 
> news:Xns9AA3E6CA9A7CAniceguyonzetnet@194.247.47.119:
> 
>  
>> From a commedian at the Fringe a few years ago:
>> 
>> "Edinburgh will look great when they've finished building it"
>> 
> 
> So not a very original comedian then. That's been said about many places 
> over the years, usually by people returning from holiday to said place.
> 

Yes but I'd like to think that Edinburgh has had a little longer than Agia 
Napa to get its act together.

Mister Niceguy  wrote in
news:Xns9AA5DF573FB2Bniceguyonzetnet@194.247.47.119: 

> Graeme Dods  wrote in 
> news:Xns9AA4D2282FD22graemedodsgmailcom@203.59.27.131:
> 
>> Mister Niceguy  wrote in 
>> news:Xns9AA3E6CA9A7CAniceguyonzetnet@194.247.47.119:
>> 
>>  
>>> From a commedian at the Fringe a few years ago:
>>> 
>>> "Edinburgh will look great when they've finished building it"
>>> 
>> 
>> So not a very original comedian then. That's been said about many
>> places over the years, usually by people returning from holiday to
>> said place. 
>> 
> 
> Yes but I'd like to think that Edinburgh has had a little longer than
> Agia Napa to get its act together.
> 

True, but I've also heard it said of Rome, which has had a bit longer than 
most places.

-- 
Graeme

Graeme Dods  wrote in
news:Xns9AA6B8027B134graemedodsgmailcom@203.59.27.131: 

> Mister Niceguy  wrote in
> news:Xns9AA5DF573FB2Bniceguyonzetnet@194.247.47.119: 
> 
>> Graeme Dods  wrote in 
>> news:Xns9AA4D2282FD22graemedodsgmailcom@203.59.27.131:
>> 
>>> Mister Niceguy  wrote in 
>>> news:Xns9AA3E6CA9A7CAniceguyonzetnet@194.247.47.119:
>>> 
>>>  
>>>> From a commedian at the Fringe a few years ago:
>>>> 
>>>> "Edinburgh will look great when they've finished building it"
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> So not a very original comedian then. That's been said about many
>>> places over the years, usually by people returning from holiday to
>>> said place. 
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes but I'd like to think that Edinburgh has had a little longer than
>> Agia Napa to get its act together.
>> 
> 
> True, but I've also heard it said of Rome, which has had a bit longer
> than most places.
> 

Haha.  Yes fair point.