The £18M given to Dorset County Council to spend on its transport plan for the 2012 Olympics is not enough, according to a Weymouth councillor.

Cllr Christine James said the Olympic Development Authority money would not cover ‘all that Weymouth and Dorset is expected to do for the Olympics’.

She told LocalGov's sister title Surveyor: ‘I am seriously concerned that we will not be able to complete all we are expected to do on budget and on time, unless we are given more money.

‘It is unfair to keep on going back to the taxpayer and asking them to pay for more and more. Public feelings about the whole event are very mixed at the moment.’

Weymouth & Portland Borough Council will host the 2012 sailing event. Most of the facilities for the event are expected to be completed by the end of the year.

But James says it is unclear what is expected of Dorset and Weymouth in terms of transport planning and logistics, and what the ODA will be paying for. ‘I am just concerned we won’t get things done in time,’ she said.

She is particularly concerned over the cost of planned cycle routes in Weymouth, and disabled facilities on buses. ‘We have a fantastic bus service in operation, but if you can only get one or two disabled people on a bus, then we are going to have problems during the Paralympics.’

Ben Stafford of the DfT’s Transport for the 2012 Olympics department said: ‘What is clear is that councils won’t be given money for things they should be doing anyway. Anything else deemed vital for the Olympics should be the responsibility of the ODA.’ But Chris Mercer, project manager for Dorset County Council, said the £18M was ‘enough to deliver what is set out in our plans’.