Transport Scotland has played down a newspaper report that the new Forth Crossing project is five months behind schedule thanks to the new design ordered by the Scottish Government last year and disagreements over funding.
The report, in the Sunday Herald, claimed that invitations would be issued to bidders in June before preliminary work is complete, that the Government and the Treasury are still at loggerheads and that documents it says it obtained under freedom of information show insufficient formal consultation, laying the project open to legal challenge.
A spokesman for Transport Scotland dismissed the article as not even worth commenting on. He said bidders would be invited in June and invitations to tender issued in November. Transport Scotland’s timetable foresees a parliamentary bill being introduced next winter, tenders being awarded and construction beginning in 2011.
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