Sursis will only cause delay, raise cost of runway work, says PSD
Wednesday 20th July 2011, 1:00PM BST.
ANY delay in approving the £80m. airport project would increase its cost and seriously jeopardise the island’s ability to attract experienced contractors to carry out the works, Public Services has said.
Deputy John Gollop will lay a sursis when the issue is debated next week to delay any decision on signing off the contractor.
Public Services minister Bernard Flouquet (pictured) said the wording to the motion would instruct the department to do nothing it had not already done.
‘We have been through an enormous amount of detailed research, design and project planning, and these matters have already been discussed at length and agreed by the States on a number of occasions,’ said Deputy Flouquet.
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Are Gollop and De Lisle clueless? Why now start questioning?
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Tired
I agree. Why question all of this now at the 11th hour. Lets get on with it. A few months inconveniance for the survival of the island. I know what I would vote for.
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They are not questioning at the 11th hour. Deputies and islanders have been questioning it for a long time. However PSD are not too hot on answering questions.
The one thing that no-one disagrees about is that the runway needs resufacing. However, there is much disagreement about the scale of the work. This is your money that PSD is spending. The whole job is overscale. There is no evidence of the need for the international length safety areas, the compulsory purchase or the road closure. Some of the work is a knock-on effect of the shifting westwards of the runway, which would not be needed if a sensible approach had been taken.
No doubt we will hear all the threats about the runway breaking up and the contractors charging more that PSD are so well-versed in trotting out (having had plenty of practice over the Suez fiasco). PSD should not be allowed to bully their way through with another over-priced, over-engineered project.
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Mike
“The survival of the island”
How melodramatic.
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Haven’t they thought of getting the St Peters Douzaine to refuse a bornement?
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Oh Bernie, you little scaremongerer you. Give it a rest, eh?
j jones – couldn’t have put it better myself.
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Now now! don’t be like that to poor Mr Flouquet:
he should be treated like any other member–
With contempt.
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Perhaps It could be explained to me, why do we have to pay so much money for an airport we don’t own?
To explain, we constantly hear that we are a dependency; So we are dependent on those who say they own the Island.
In which case they should be liable for the maintenance of the Airport; for it they who most use the place.
Either they pay up, or we become totally free of the yoke.
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