Blunder Road

Edinburgh, my birthplace and the place I called home until very recently, has made some almighty blunders in its time. And if you didn't bother to click on the link as you were sure it would just take you to the Edinburgh Trams propaganda site, you're wrong. There's no way NOMW is giving that abomination of a scheme the oxygen of publicity, adverse or not. You may not be aware that the 'City Fathers' almost bankrupted the place centuries before trams though, when despite the fact the Firth of Forth is topographically completely unsuitable as a major shipping channel, they spent the equivalent of billions of pounds trying to dredge large parts of it and turn Leith into the main port of a Clyde-beating waterway. Maybe the current lot are just trying to finish what their hapless predecessors started.

For all that though, there's to be no out-stupidifying Dubai. Recession or no recession, Dubai's a place that still likes to do things bigger and better than anyone else (they're-whisper it- building a tram line to complement their grossly over-budget and under-utilised monorail network as I write) and so it should come as no surprise that they've now managed to build a tunnel without telling anyone about it. Not only that, they've forgotten they even did it. Brilliant.