Re: Failed London Garden Bridge project cost £53m Archived Message Posted by mack on February 13, 2019, 9:26 pm, in reply to "Failed London Garden Bridge project cost £53m" 'The design of the bridge cost more than £9m' Jesus. At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, this has 'scam' written all over it. A back of an envelope calculation tells me that if someone had asked me to design it (with multiple revisions written in to the contract), I could design something (something miles better than what was proposed, even if I say so myself) for about £10k. Add in a very generous £50k for engineer's fees and we're there. This is a glaring example of public money being stolen by the usual suspects. Still, there's always HS2 (not to mention multiple ongoing PFI's) - fleecing the public and destroying the environment somewhere near you. This shit has got to stop. Thanks for posting. Message Thread: Failed London Garden Bridge project cost £53m - spike February 13, 2019, 5:52 pm Re: Failed London Garden Bridge project cost £53m - mack February 13, 2019, 9:26 pm I'm hoping fervently that the HS2 scam will collapse soon under the weight of its cost overruns - - Rhisiart Gwilym February 14, 2019, 10:15 am 161k for a website? - Raskolnikov February 14, 2019, 10:35 am   Searching