Originally Posted by
Bill Darlington
£20 million on a rail terminal at the airport is sheer madness, TIA has a perfectly good car park right Infront of the terminal yielding excellent revenue, why shoot yourself in the foot.....and a tram system without tracks, surely that's a bus, and many other schemes all delivered within two years, while a government official stated that this £1 bn will only be released in 2027,
If this goes ahead he will be opening himself to being dragged over the coals should Labour be successful in the next GE. Such spending is still subject to Central Government oversight to ensure local Mayors aren’t just giving out lucrative contracts to mates and basically squandering public money on vanity projects that have no potential for return or economic regeneration. BH is quite clearly part of the in crowd at Westminster currently, but these things when they change, they change very quickly.
With this in mind I hope that whatever has been going on behind the scenes at MME really does mean it can become self sufficient in the not too distant future..