"Erbert23658200" wrote in message
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The government seem to consider
the scheme poor value for money on avilable information so are not
funding it this time round.

The scheme will be considered poor value for money, when three weeks
before the
announcement the cost mysteriously nearly doubled from £50m to £97m.

P Erbert


Maybe they looked at the examples of several other recent rail projects
(e.g. the adjoining WCML) and decided to use a realistic figure in their
estimate :S

Colin