Comment on the Scottish Executive's latest idea. A second crossing of the River Forth, Edinburgh end.
Daily Telegraph - Alan Cochrane
There is no question that a second crossing is required. What is alarming is that it seems as if engineers will not be left to their own devices but will be have to put up with interference from politicians and Civil Servants. Yes it's public money and there needs to be some oversight but as the commentator here says,
Daily Telegraph - Alan Cochrane
something will most definitely be built somewhere, sometime
There is no question that a second crossing is required. What is alarming is that it seems as if engineers will not be left to their own devices but will be have to put up with interference from politicians and Civil Servants. Yes it's public money and there needs to be some oversight but as the commentator here says,
it's just that some of us remember Lord Fraser of Carmyllie's views, in his Holyrood report, about unqualified civil servants being in charge of construction projects.