Page Content | Events
Features
Newswire
Publish
Links
Regions
Other IMCs
Search
Leeds Bradford IMC | UK IMC | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Support Us

(((i))) Leeds Bradford

Read It. Write It. DO IT!

M1 widening to cost £21m per mile

The Observer | 06.05.2007 21:45 | Ecology | Sheffield

Todays Observer contails an article about the cost of the M1 widening which is to cost £21m per mile: "Budget of huge project is now expected to exceed the annual GDP of a third of the world's countries". The first two paragraphs of the article follow, for more info see the feature article: Work Starts On M1 Widening As Protests Continue,  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360616.html

The cost of widening the M1, Britain's biggest road-building project, is spiralling out of controll with each mile costing more than £21m.

The National Audit Office was called on last night to investigate why the price of the project has risen from £3.7bn to £5.1bn. The latest estimate makes the 240-mile project bigger than the annual economies of a third of the world's nations.

Juliette Jowit, transport editor
Sunday May 6, 2007
The Observer
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,2073632,00.html

The Observer
- Homepage: http://www.nowideningm1.org.uk/

Comments

Hide the following 2 comments

i'm a pig

06.05.2007 23:23

the M1 is a trough and my snout is in it.

pattheroadbuilder


It'll cost more than that!

07.05.2007 17:14

That (already outrageous) sum will be exceeded, of course. One of the things that the estimate has not taken into account is PROTEST - there is already a direct-action campaign against the M1, it is growing, and it will make sure that if they ever go ahead and try to build the section around Nottingham, the contractors will not make a profit!

Treehugga


Write It
Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

Search

The Common Place - Leeds The 1 in 12 club - Bradford The Trades Club - Hebden Bridge

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech