The "financial black hole" as Knockers puts it is being filled by the rates payers of Derry via the city council. And of course there's the funding from Europe over the years as well (and of course the Republic's motorways and other shiny bits of infrastructure also benefitted from European money). Something to do with a city whose metropolitan area had a population of over 120,000 not having a motorway within 50 miles. The only city in western Europe to find itself in such an infrastructural BLACKHOLE.
As I understand it, Balfour Beatty owned BLK. Is this correct? If so, LDY is very different in that it is owned by Derry City Council, and "managed" by BB. Is EXT owned by BB?
As it stands, a lot of political capital has been invested in LDY. Under the financial malaise of the NI "government" (read utter shambles), one wonders when the penny pinchers will start looking at other infrastructure projects other than the promised (and what's a promise worth?) A5 and A2 upgrades.