Fastway is a total flop
November 14th, 2005 at 11:18am Under General
Recent reports into the Fastway fiasco are showing that fastway is a total waste of money.
The roads are still heavily disrupted around the Longbridge roundabout in HGorley with no end in sight in the near or far future.
The project has overspent by £6.2 million bringing the current cost to around £29.2 million. The rough average of users per route per day is approximately four (and from what I have seen, that estimate is generous).
I am fully expecting that the retort from officials is going to be that it’s our own fault for not wanting to get out of our cars that this project is flopping - the truth is that people cannot trust this service - there are often no bus stops near them - I personally would have to walk at least two miles to get to a bus stop to go to work and nearer to four at the other end.
When is someone going to be made to explain why so much money and time has been wasted on this ridiculous project? Who did the research? Who got paid? Why do we have to put up with the powers that be, wasting our money on ill though out crap?
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