Inflated figures
We ARE told the reason the price of the Aberdeen bypass has gone up to £653 million over nine years from £347 is inflation (your report, 30 October). If so, inflation has been 7 per cent annually. I don’t think so.
We ARE told the reason the price of the Aberdeen bypass has gone up to £653 million over nine years from £347 is inflation (your report, 30 October). If so, inflation has been 7 per cent annually. I don’t think so.
What makes this worse is that this is a cost of £23.3m a mile.
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Hide AdI hope our “chaotic bureaucracy”, which makes Scottish and British public projects normally at least eight times more expensive than they should be, comes under a critical eye.However, since there has been no media outcry over the new Forth crossing costing £2.3bn when the inflation-adjusted price of the old one was £320m this is more a hope than an expectation.
Neil Craig
Woodlands Road
Glasgow