An FOI request found the scheme has cost £166,230,578 despite work on the ground starting.
The total cost of the project up to the end of May was £166,230,578, including £287,605 on legal fees
A Freedom of Information request showed the total planning spend up to the end of May was £166,230,578. It hired more than 100 archaeologists, in a contract costing £4.6m to date, to start a year of digging from last spring but the work was halted because of the latest legal challenge. "That works out at around £250,000 per metre of road, which will make it arguably one of the most expensive roads in the world," he said.During the election campaign, the new Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer,
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