Last week’s poll: a bridge too far?

As reported in The Engineer in 2009, plans to build an airport in the Thames Estuary were challenging and highly ambitious but they amounted to little more than ink on the pages of newspapers and magazines.

‘Boris island’ points to watery future for building

HS2 given go-ahead in Parliament

 HS2 was initiated under a Labour government but given the go-ahead by Johnson on February 11, 2020 at a cost that is double that of the original estimate. Prior to becoming the PM, Johnson’s tenure as Mayor of London saw him support the “garden bridge”, which would have seen a new pedestrian bridge across the Thames. As noted last week, the project was abandoned in 2017 after a financial review, but not before it had cost £43m of public money. A break down of costs can be found in a report published by Transport for London.