“The Forth Replacement Crossing project is essential to protect and promote Scotland’s sustainable economic growth. It will secure over 3,000 jobs and economic revenue of £1.3 billion that would otherwise have been lost through re-cabling of the Forth Road Bridge.
Sooner or later our political masters might realise that there's very little "sustainable" for a small country like Scotland lavishing such astronomical sums of money on a few miles of tarmac and concrete. In the mean time we can all stick our fingers in our ears and go "lalalalalalala".
Cynics like myself may find it a smidgen of a convenient co-incidence that the magic bridge is going to "secure... economic revenue of £1.3bn", seems rather close to the new bridge's price tag. "It'll pay for itself in a year, honest". And what are the 3,000 jobs it secures that are dependent on having more driving between Fife and Edinburgh?
It will also deliver a welcome boost to the Scottish construction industry
I thought we had already been informed that the bridge isn't built out of Scottish (or even British) steel or concrete and a lot of the big contracts for it have gone abroad?
Still, if you can't believe a politician, who can you believe?
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