Highways Agency wastes £37 million on failed project

[camshafted]

£37 million of taxpayers’ money has been wasted on a road to nowhere after the project was scrapped after years of planning.

The Highways Agency spent £36.8 million during eight years of planning and consultation to upgrade and widen the A14 in Cambridgeshire.

http://swns.com/highways-agency-wastes-37-million-...

And now it's been scrapped because it would have been too expensive to finish! They haven't even started any of the work.

It's shocking there's so many processes just to get something off the ground. I think the business term is JFDI - I wish they would 'just do it' rather than waste our money. The Highways Agency could have signed Andy Carroll for that - and had enough left over to cut his ponytail

[Dan_1981]

camshafted said:

The Highways Agency could have signed Andy Carroll for that - and had enough left over to cut his ponytail

No guarentee he's gonna work either....

[MKnight702]

Sorry, but you are shocked that the Public Sector wasted some cash?

If the Private Sector operated in the same way as the Public Sector they would get locked up, yet we the public accept inefficient, costly and downright shoddy service as normal from the Public Sector. I go all shouty and froth at the mouth everytime the old "cuts in spending = cuts in services" line is trotted out, why can't we the paying public expect cuts in costs and improved services? It happens every day in the Private Sector.

Oh and the A14 is a road I use every day, great isn't it...

[agent006]

I don't see what your point is. Are you complaining about the HA planning a road project properly, or complaining about the government cancelling it?

[ManOpener]

£37m as a government contract is small change. The MoD wasted £3bn building updated Nimrods and they're currently getting cut up for scrap, despite being fully operational and having never flown.

[Taita]

ManOpener said:

£37m as a government contract is small change. The MoD wasted £3bn building updated Nimrods and they're currently getting cut up for scrap, despite being fully operational and having never flown.

Laughable bks!

[mlj]

That is the main motorway I use, and it's friggin annyoing fk all has been done to it.

All these plans and nothing has been done, and all the money. About as good as the guided busway near us too.

[camshafted]

I'm just saying I can't understand how they can spend that much and then decide it's not worth pursuing. Might be small fry in the grand scheme, just seems a lot of money to spend on 'planning' and 'outlining' etc.

And the Nimrod situations. What a farce.

[al1991]

The things I could have done with that £37 million, they should have given it to me damn it!

[EDLT]

How can one road cost £1.3billion, and it would have gone over budget too.

[Biggriff]

You are wrong in saying feck all has been done to the A14, they have agreed to extend the average speed cameras......

[FranKinFezza]

I know of a certain MOD building not far from london that cost £750,000,000 to build
and was written off as a total loss
due to someone using the wrong cleaning chemicals in some pipework

[Caruso]

Only £37m, we got of lightly!