£9.7million 400m Footpath!

[Saleen836]

A snip at £24k a metre!

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/...

[Jasandjules]

Bargain. Good to see we are not p***ng money down the drain on pointless things.

[markymarkthree]

Looks like the neighboring ex North Somerset, Clevedon wiggly line councilors, that we kicked out, have now moved to Bristol.

[nikaiyo2]

That’s motorway cost, I would imagine a number of labour councillors who approved this hve done ok from it.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Is most of that cost bureaucracy?

Norway are building the world’s longest undersea road tunnel in the world for £120million?

It’s only costing them £5000 per meter!

[Kawasicki]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

Is most of that cost bureaucracy?

Norway are building the world’s longest undersea road tunnel in the world for £120million?

It’s only costing them £5000 per meter!

Norwegian tunnel costs 36 bn.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Looks like we are both wrong

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/12/...

The Rogfast upgrade for the whole route is £36bn the tunnel itself is estimated to cost £1.6bn

The tunnel referenced is the Laerdal tunnel which cost £100million … 25 years ago.

[tangerine_sedge]

Saleen836 said:

A snip at £24k a metre!

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/...

That article is light on details, so it might actually be reasonable costs. That part of Bristol is very old ex-industrial land so there might be cleanup and quite sizeable groundworks required on the riverbank.

[Huzzah]

tangerine_sedge said:

Saleen836 said:

A snip at £24k a metre!

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/...

That article is light on details, so it might actually be reasonable costs. That part of Bristol is very old ex-industrial land so there might be cleanup and quite sizeable groundworks required on the riverbank.

In what world could you describe a footpath ar £24k per meter as 'reasonable'

[Some Gump]

Huzzah said:

In what world could you describe a footpath ar £24k per meter as 'reasonable'

When it's someone else's money.

[Earthdweller]

That's right up there with this .. €336k for a bike shed in Dublin!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39k2glg2j3o

[FourWheelDrift]

tangerine_sedge said:

That article is light on details, so it might actually be reasonable costs. That part of Bristol is very old ex-industrial land so there might be cleanup and quite sizeable groundworks required on the riverbank.

That's what the contractors said, between laughing.

[tangerine_sedge]

Some Gump said:

Huzzah said:

In what world could you describe a footpath ar £24k per meter as 'reasonable'

When it's someone else's money.

When it's a footpath built on an old industrial water basin requiring significant engineering works to ensure that it doesn't suffer from land slips and is fit for purpose.

This is not just a bit of tarmac thrown down onto hardcore, as much as the local politicians and headline grabbing media want to suggest.

[mac96]

tangerine_sedge said:

Some Gump said:

Huzzah said:

In what world could you describe a footpath ar £24k per meter as 'reasonable'

When it's someone else's money.

When it's a footpath built on an old industrial water basin requiring significant engineering works to ensure that it doesn't suffer from land slips and is fit for purpose.

This is not just a bit of tarmac thrown down onto hardcore, as much as the local politicians and headline grabbing media want to suggest.

If that is a fair price to route a footpath there, then surely the sensible choice is to put it somewhere else, or do without.

[leef44]

mac96 said:

tangerine_sedge said:

Some Gump said:

Huzzah said:

In what world could you describe a footpath ar £24k per meter as 'reasonable'

When it's someone else's money.

When it's a footpath built on an old industrial water basin requiring significant engineering works to ensure that it doesn't suffer from land slips and is fit for purpose.

This is not just a bit of tarmac thrown down onto hardcore, as much as the local politicians and headline grabbing media want to suggest.

If that is a fair price to route a footpath there, then surely the sensible choice is to put it somewhere else, or do without.

But then that would require being sensible or using common sense. We are talking about politics here.

[Acorn1]

I thought this was a spoof headline!

Still waiting for the outcome on this

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/21/sf...

Edited by Acorn1 on Sunday 2nd February 18:04

[turbobloke]

Jasandjules said:

Bargain. Good to see we are not p***ng money down the drain on pointless things.

If there are issues with the terrain (landslip?) pushing costs up that high, and the project can't be cancelled, then apart from the initial commissioning being ropey it's still a ludicrous amount of money for a 400m footpath. Such notions would never see the light of day unless it was the idea of a spendthrift individual or group and paid for with other people's money. In the last couple of years there's been green and red influences at work and it shows. The council is facing a massive deficit already.

[FourWheelDrift]

It is of course Bristol, so nothing is surprising.

Meanwhile they are considering bin collections once every 4 weeks because the can't afford to do it every 2 weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/27/br...

If only they had a pool of extra money, say £9.7m that they could use part of to pay for it.

[leef44]

turbobloke said:

If there are issues with the terrain (landslip?) pushing costs up that high, and the project can't be cancelled, then apart from the initial commissioning being ropey it's still a ludicrous amount of money for a 400m footpath. Such notions would never see the light of day unless it was the idea of a spendthrift individual or group and paid for with other people's money. In the last couple of years there's been green and red influences at work and it shows. The council is facing a massive deficit already.

It's a footpath so it will come under a green project which then means money is no object. Just collect more by taxing drivers more via new city schemes.

[Catatafish]

Can't help but imagine some number of parasitic types involved in this game of "rob everything you can from the taxpayer"