@nr If all that could be accomplished, it would bring Edinburgh into the nineteenth century!

The city received a lot of criticism for how expensive establishing the first tram line was. Rightfully so as its public money but it was an obscene amount largely due to the fact we were starting from scratch.

Now we are finally expanding the system, we’ve built large sections of the city […]

Keeping in mind that Edinburgh does own 27 trams. More than it generally needs as they are not ever all in operation at once (Swift’s Era concert at Murrayfield being an exception.

So whilst the plans for all the new lines look extensive, we already have the number of trams needed to run the 2 […]

Existing tram line is in red. Yellow shows definite extensions with purple & green showing possible routes. Blue labels the railway freight line that is considered for tram-train use.

This does follow on the Heriott Watt Uni students who campaigned to have the […]

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We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever […]

Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.

We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today

Scottish Green Party has also benefited with their own membership reaching over 8,200 & these are just the figure we can count right now!

Whether it’s new campaigners, members or just the people who will turn up on polling day because they feel compelled to. Those in power are terrified: the […]

The idea of greens ever becoming the third largest party in the U.K seemed farfetched for so long, but now we are literally counting down the days until they become the single largest party. #ukpolitics #greenparty #greens

Refuweegee is pretty well known in and around Glasgow and are worth checking out if relevant to you.

There can’t be enough emphasis on local impact, It’s these local groups that meet people face to face regularly and are best equipped to support them.

Just because the Labour government […]