A Whitehall source told the Post the government is about to announce the GBP150m tram scheme, which would see 22 trams running on one line from Liverpool to Kirkby, each carrying 200 passengers.
As the trams had stopped and there was no one to be seen, he decided to indulge himself and began skipping down the road with three dangerous words on his lips.
A local Tory MSP, John Lamont, has questioned its cost and compared its construction to "the trams debacle" in Edinburgh when, in 2014, a new tram system opened three years behind schedule and more than two times over budget.
I came up from Paris, only an hour away by fast train, and stepping off at the cute 19th-century gare de la ville the first things I noticed were the red brick, the trams and a dank sky.
Budapest's rattling yellow trams are the main transport for the city.
The band began writing songs with lyrics such as: "Egyptian air is good for the lungs / Do Tahrir on Red Square!" and performing on trams and in the metro.
Most other European countries plan new development around public transport, with trams or trains at their heart.
This dirt has long since been scraped off and the centre of Lyon is now bright and airy, with its new trams and cheap bikes for hire.
The list covers a range of projects building railway and tram lines, expanding highways, surfacing streets and improving bus services around the region.But elected officials making deals is one thing; convincing a farmer in a rural part of Fayette County, on the very edge of metro Atlanta, to tax himself to pay for trams downtown is something else entirely.
Mayors like boasting about their downtown trams or metrosexual loft dwellers not their suburbs.But the planet as a whole is fast becoming suburban.
"Light rail is popular and increasing," asserts Norman Baker, a transport minister.The popularity of trams with town planners is not always shared by commuters, though.
