Talks due tonight on controversial Corporation Road Bridge project - but officers demand confidentiality

                                            

Troubled bridge over calm water - repairs update for councillors due to tonight   

WILL it be good news or bad news on Grimsby's famous (for all the wrong reasons) Corporation Road Bridge?

Councillors will find out this evening  when an update on the controversial project is due to be provided at a special meeting of North East Lincolnshire Council.

They are expecting to be told the outcome of a feasibility study on one particularly problematic section of the historic bridge - the span that is designed to be raised and  lowered.

They might also be given an indication on the extent to which costs are escalating such that they are long since thought to have bust the original budget.

However, there is unlikely to be a target date for when (and if) the bridge will gain be open to all traffic.

This evening's discussions in Grimsby Town Hall have been deemed confidential and officers are insisting that public and press are excluded.  

The Grimsby News says: It is hard to be overly optimistic. If the news is good, NELC would surely have issued a jubilant press statement. But, as of 2pm, no word had been uttered. The fact that the meeting is to be held in secret is also unpropitious - a sure sign that someone somewhere has something to hide.