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Recliner[_3_] · September 22nd 16, 07:32 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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Roland Perry wrote:-
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mber.org, at 14:49:49 on Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Recliner
remarked:
I note this report says £60 million has been "committed" so far.
What is the difference between the £40 million spent and the
£60 million committed?

I wonder how they've managed to spend so much already? Has much work
been
done on the ground?

There's some piling work going on in the river, whether it's for the
garden bridge or not, I don't know.-

Apparently not. It now looks like the bridge will get canned, after
£38m
has been spent before any actual construction work. Apparently Boris is

the
only cabinet minister in favour, and there's no enthusiasm in City
Hall.-

Anyone have any idea how you can spend 38 million on just talking about

something

it seems nuts-

It does, and it now seems the funding gap is even wider than thought:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37112199

I didn't realise the man who designed the "roastmaster"
designed this new bridge as well. He's quite a boy, isn't he?

That's one of the questions Sadiq has raised, as Heatherwick wasn't chosen
using a proper procurement process. In fact, the decisions all seem to be
based on how well Joanna Lumley knew people.

And yet, despite all this further discussion, I am no nearing to finding out
what the 39 Million pounds wasted so far, has been spent on.

For those that don't realise, this insignificant, to a national government,
amount is TWICE the total costs of the wibbly-wobbly bridge, so we could
have had normal bridge here by now, with cash left over for a second one
somewhere else.

http://www.cityam.com/249834/sadiq-k...ead-new-garden