In message , at 17:32:59 on Fri, 12
Oct 2012, tim..... remarked:

the start of this thread was Roland's comment that its expansions was
done by a commercial organisation because the local councils would have
****ed it up.

I didn't say that. The closest I came was saying that the original
project lost money, and the two councils would not have had the
resources to build the bridge. (Doubling the capacity for a second time,
quadrupling the original project).

Further: since the increased traffic was due to the M25, a government
project, and not increased use by Essex and Kent ratepayers, I think it
was right for the government to take over the responsibility (which they
then outsourced to a private company).
--
Roland Perry