Practically £900,000 of taxpayers’ cash was spent on a examine commissioned by Boris Johnson which discovered it will be too costly to construct a bridge or tunnel between Scotland and Northern Eire
The Division for Transport (DfT) mentioned the analysis into the feasibility of a hard and fast hyperlink price £896,681.
Community Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy led the investigation, which discovered {that a} bridge would price £335 billion, whereas a tunnel would require a funds of round £209 billion.
His report concluded that the challenge “could be unattainable to justify” as “the advantages couldn’t probably outweigh the prices”.
Along with the massive expense, the inquiry additionally famous that the mandatory work could be extremely difficult.
The report described how Beaufort’s Dyke – an underwater trench on probably the most direct route between Scotland and Northern Eire – would should be “fastidiously surveyed” as a consequence of one million tons of unexploded munitions being dumped there between the First World Conflict and the Seventies.
Mr Johnson beforehand talked up the creation of a hard and fast hyperlink however accepted the conclusion of the report.
The analysis was carried out alongside a wider assessment of connectivity within the UK, which price £1,102,525.
The DfT mentioned the whole of £1,999,206 for each research was the quantity spent on consultancy charges and division workers prices.
Sir Peter led the assessment alongside his function at Community Rail, and didn’t obtain further pay.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
