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| A job only half done? How many more months before the ill-fated bridge reopens? |
A CALL has come for a senior North East Lincolnshire Council cabinet member to resign over the ill-fated Corporation Road Bridge repair project.
The leader of the authority's Labour Group, Cllr Emma Clough, said today: "This project has been appallingly managed by the Conservative leadership from the very start.
"The bridge is an important route through Grimsby, and people will have to wait even longer before it reopens.
"Residents, local businesses, and drivers have faced more than two years of delays and disruption - with no clear end in sight.
"What is more, the project has become a major financial risk for the council, with even more taxpayers' money needed to get the bridge reopened.
"The position of the cabinet's portfolio holder for highways, Cllr Stewart Swinburn, is no longer tenable
"He must resign.
"The administration must also apologise to the people of North East Lincolnshire for these unacceptable delays."
The repair project was originally projected to take 10 months.
Some 26 months later - with more than an estimated £7-million spent - and it still has not been completed.
In the meantime, Hull-based bridge repairs contractors Spencer Group which has just been sacked by North East Lincolnshire Council for "unacceptable delays" in completing the project says it is "disappointed and baffled" by the decision.
It thought it had an "excellent" relationship with the council.
The parting of the ways might diminish the company's reputation in the short term but it may not be too damaging for its finances.
Spencer is not short of work, and, earlier this month, announced that it had been awarded repair and renovation contracts for three bridges in Scotland.
* See also previous report.
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