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THE article “Trams will find it’s not easy being green” (News, 12 November) refers to the “largely discredited” assertion of the Scottish Government earlier this year that the Edinburgh trams will actually increase CO2 emissions whereas another Forth road bridge would result in a decrease!

You can bet your bottom dollar these figures are discredited!

What the emissions savings figure indicates is the supposed situation arising from a new bridge with “state-of-the-art” traffic management measures in place both on the bridge and its c
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onnecting road network. It assumes that the existing bridge will essentially only carry buses

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