COUNCIL taxpayers in Edinburgh could be left with a £4.4 million bill for compensation claims over the new Forth Road Bridge unless the Scottish Government agrees to pick up the tab.
The potential claims – for noise, disturbance, vibration, smell and fumes – arise from construction contracts for approach roads to the new bridge.
The Forth Estuary Transport Authority (Feta) would normally have reimbursed the council for the costs of such claims. But Feta is being abolished and the job of maintaining and operating both the new and the existing crossing will be handed to a private company, while the government owns the structures.
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