Trams - a list

Here's what I've been told that the Tram Project has still to find a way of addressing but that I don't have details on:

1. Constitution Street has burial grounds beneath it. There may be some legal considerations to the movement of human remains.

2. The conduit tunnels that were used for the old cable-driven trams that surprised tie but not anyone else who lives in Edinburgh - still awaiting an engineering solution.

3. The walk-along sewer that runs the length of Princes Street does not have the strength to carry the Tram.

4. There's a turntable from the previous tram system embedded in the roadway which has to be lifted.

5. The ground at Haymarket where the track is intended to go off-road is mudstone and needs to be stabilised.

6. There's an unexpected quarry at Haymarket.

7. The ground at the flood plain at the Gogar Burn needs stabilised (who thought it was a good idea to build on a flood plain anyway?)

8. They still haven't found a way to turn the tram from North St Andrews Street into Queen St (too steep an incline combined with too sharp a drop).

9. There's not enough money.

10. They still haven't worked out how to shield the tram's electrics from the electrics used to power the signals on the train track it will run alongside.

Well planned, chaps, carry on! I wonder how secure the yard where the tramtracks have been stored is - I wonder whether those track sections are still there. What about the structural integrity of the viaduct that carries the guided busway and is intended to carry the tram? What else can go wrong? I'm off to see if I can lay a bet on the trams not running before 2015.

Mind how you go!