The Scotsman

Facebook folly?

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Judith Robertson It’s true. Parents stand talking at the gates every morning instead of moving to let you get through to drop your kids off. Drop your child and go. it’s that simple.. no need to stand talking around the gates in groups. There are P1 starters that need to be accompanie­d with their parents and it’s hard for us to do when everyone is standing in groups chatting and have to be told to move out

Edinburgh tram project spends £16,000 on Facebook ads, more than double the council’s spend on Covid-19 communicat­ions.

That is shocking when you think of all the cuts that are being put in place just now. The trams were a mistake from Day One. Why, when we have the best and cheapest bus service in Europe, did

Lucien Romano The trams should be scrapped altogether; there is no need to have them and the council want to get a grip and stop squanderin­g the money.

Marjorie Knight It has been the ruination of the traffic infrastruc­ture since Day One and taken the city of Edinburgh from nowhere to number two most congested city in the UK.

James Whitelaw

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