Fresh legal action by Cambridgeshire County Council against contractor BAM Nuttall could engulf its guided bus project once again, following the discovery of serious faults in the guided bus track which could cost £20 million to repair.

The news comes less than eight months after the county council settled its earlier dispute with BAM Nuttall over the guided bus, at a cost of £33 million to Cambridgeshire taxpayers.

This scheme has eaten up massive amounts of taxpayers’ money and demonstrated the inability of the county council to manage large projects like this.  The county council must now ensure that the guided busway is safe, but certainly shouldn’t throw any more public money at this scheme in the process.

Meanwhile, Cambridgeshire residents have every right to be alarmed about any future complex large scale infrastructure projects on the county council’s to-do list, until we can be confident this sort of disaster won’t happen again.

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