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  "path": "/2026/04/01/dead-cert-the-thread-about-edinburghs-disastrous-dalliances-with-guided-busways/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-01T05:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://threadinburgh.scot",
  "tags": [
    "20th Century",
    "Strange Happenings",
    "Suburbs",
    "Transportation",
    "Airport",
    "Buchanan Report",
    "buses",
    "Edinburgh District Council",
    "Failures",
    "Local Politics",
    "Lothian Region",
    "politics",
    "Public Transport",
    "Railways",
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  "textContent": "April Fools' Day marks a suitable 30th birthday for the City of Edinburgh Council, a body which upon its establishment found itself in charge of a scheme promising \na cheap and easy transport fix but which proved to be anything of the sort. It was a scheme hallmarked by political intransigence, a perfidious PFI consortium, chaotic project management, acrimonious landowners, repeated threats of legal action, massive cost overruns, a timeline that would slip almost a decade and a final route that was only a small section of what had been first intended. Most remarkably it was a scheme that wasn't Edinburgh Trams! No, there was another project before that, indeed its direct predecessor, which also got almost everything wrong too in a very similar manner. What this thread is actually talking about is CERT, the City of Edinburgh Rapid Transit guided busway.",
  "title": "Dead CERT: the thread about Edinburgh’s disastrous dalliances with guided busways"
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