Consiglio ridicolizzato dopo aver speso £ 50 milioni su “Bridge to Nowhere”
Council ridiculed after spending £50m on ‘bridge to nowhere’
di GnolRevilo
Consiglio ridicolizzato dopo aver speso £ 50 milioni su “Bridge to Nowhere”
Council ridiculed after spending £50m on ‘bridge to nowhere’
di GnolRevilo
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> A council is facing criticism after spending £50m on a “bridge to nowhere” because it has no more money to finish the project.
> **The 7.3-mile route is set to cost at least £110m** and Lincolnshire County Council decided to split construction into five sections.
> Work on the “north” section, including a bridge over the Lincoln to Peterborough rail line, began in 2022 and was finished last year at a cost of around £50m.
> However, officials have now admitted they only have £27.7m to put towards building the next section of the project and estimated costs have risen to between £50m and £60m.
Lincolnshire County Council
So reform was right to bring in DOGE to address a mess like this!
“The council said the project’s northern section had opened up land allocated for housing in south-east Lincolnshire for an initial 1,100 dwellings.”
But laughing about a bridge is more fun I suppose.
Anyone else hear about this first from Auto Shenanigans?
1. What a shit site, no I won’t pay for a subscription
2. [We’ve had a similar £50m overpass near Bristol](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53808525) unbuilt by the developer that still stands blocked off 6 years later
I think this is good. They as a council have built something, with the intention of building the rest soon. They could have built nothing, and we’d still have nothing. This way, we have something, with the promise it will yield results later.
Just like if the government had started building nuclear power stations 15 years ago then now we’d have more of them instead of holding off because they take ages to build.
Their friends probably own the construction companies
[Don’t tell them about the bridge to nowhere in Warwickshire](https://www.warwickshireworld.com/news/people/kenilworths-a46-bridge-to-nowhere-question-receives-no-answer-5028895)
The headline quintessentially sums up the UK political landscape. A shiny expensive unfinished bridge to nowhere.