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I don't work for the council so I can't answer for them. I can only assume hearts repaired what was needed back then and have done yearly repairs to make sure it's safe enough for football fans to attend!
In the run up to both stands being declared unsafe and the letters being issued both clubs had made adjustments and repairs, things like widen the exit stairs, season upon season. The letters acknowledged the works done but said no more safety work on the existing stands could be done which would render them safe.

I don't blame Hibs for knocking the old one down in that case as given the history of obstinacy by the council on most dealings with Hibs we could well have come a cropper. I also don't blame Hearts for ignoring it as given the history of compliance between them and the council it's obvious they could just carry on.


Are you saying you think hearts have had some sort of back handers and certificates given just because you think EC have a few Jambos?
Why would I say that on a public forum? It's not a case of me "thinking" they have a few Jambos, it's true. Even one Celtic supporting councilor had a season ticket for tynie as he wanted "keep the natives happy".

Someone else below has described how their cosy relationship works and given when the one time they messed up with Hibs and illegally gave over the Lochend Butterfly to someone else then nothing happened in the way of disciplinary action I think it obvious there is some bias there.

On the topic of the trams I was on a stag with one of the head guys that done the contract. They hired a German firm for it and the messed the council about big time! Started asking for more money for metal etc and just kept increasing it. If the council stopped there and then they would have had to pay the company the original fee along with starting again. Now the EC are suing them and there will be a public enquiry about the way the council were backed into a corner!

Poor, poor council!! Blaming the Germans seems good sense but it will never stand up, or maybe it will the way they been destroying evidence since about 2008.

Allegedly there has been skimming going on since the project started and it has, again allegedly, nothing to do with the Germans and everything to do with unnecessary "exploratory" works being carried out again and again. Money goes into the hands of the road diggers and split with EC people, bloke in pub told me that so it might be rubbish, allegedly. Just like it might be rubbish that the allegations of scaffold companies going halves on their rent with council employees/elected officials - scaffold going up far too early and coming down months after work completed but the rent being paid for it by houdeholders, allegedly. Still they got caught with the Compulsory Repairs dodge and we all saw justice done, i.e. no criminal charges at all

For the record I still think the trams are a waste of space and money!
The trams are fine but we never ever pay for them given the incompetence and, alleged, criminal behaviour of certain parties.