City-region powers ‘would deliver on trams and infrastructure’

Summit convened by city business leaders hears calls for fresh thinking

Trams in Leith, but could they extend outside Edinburgh? Pic: Edinburgh Trams

Albert Einstein, aptly for a Nobel prize winning physicist and genius, managed brilliantly to make a telling point simply. “We can’t solve today’s problems with the mentality that created them.”

Imagine, for example, tackling the need to reduce car use congestion in Edinburgh n…