Wednesday, December 17, 2008
COMPARING COST OF BOTH FORTH BRIDGES & A TUNNEL - HERALD LETTER
The cost of the Forth Bridge is be reduced from £4.2bn to just over £2bn by making it smaller and relying on the old one. Good thing, then, that the current bridge was better built than government has implied and can stay open. The cost of the current bridge was £19m, which, adjusting for inflation, is £320m now.
Even better would be if our government would notice that, based on the costs of the Norwegians, who have been cutting tunnels for decades, [& the engineers who cut the tunnels at the Glendoe power station,*] we could produce a Forth tunnel for tens of millions.
I will report if anybody authoritative answers it. Experience shows those in charge tend to answer impertinent questions from ordinary people about how they are wasting billions of £s by ignoring them.
* Unfortunately edited
Even better would be if our government would notice that, based on the costs of the Norwegians, who have been cutting tunnels for decades, [& the engineers who cut the tunnels at the Glendoe power station,*] we could produce a Forth tunnel for tens of millions.
I will report if anybody authoritative answers it. Experience shows those in charge tend to answer impertinent questions from ordinary people about how they are wasting billions of £s by ignoring them.
* Unfortunately edited
