> Ministers have stripped the government’s road-building agency of responsibility for a £10bn tunnel under the River Thames amid a drive by Keir Starmer’s cabinet to take tight control over important infrastructure projects for fear of cost overruns and delays.
> Oversight of the Lower Thames Crossing – the UK’s largest planned infrastructure project – has been taken away from National Highways and handed to the Department for Transport (DfT).
I hope this will work out and helps to get these major projects completed in time and without (at least not ridiculously high) cost overruns. At least they are trying to get them moving.
TickTockPick on
Finally something is being done about this. Construction costs in the UK are just ridiculous.
philipwhiuk on
They’re gonna regret this – now there’s no one else to blame
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> Ministers have stripped the government’s road-building agency of responsibility for a £10bn tunnel under the River Thames amid a drive by Keir Starmer’s cabinet to take tight control over important infrastructure projects for fear of cost overruns and delays.
> Oversight of the Lower Thames Crossing – the UK’s largest planned infrastructure project – has been taken away from National Highways and handed to the Department for Transport (DfT).
I hope this will work out and helps to get these major projects completed in time and without (at least not ridiculously high) cost overruns. At least they are trying to get them moving.
Finally something is being done about this. Construction costs in the UK are just ridiculous.
They’re gonna regret this – now there’s no one else to blame