So the underpass at the westlink in Belfast opened on Friday 13 whole months ahead of target, Amazing!! or is it?
Firstly who timed this project and costed it, obviously costing it 13 months over the time it actually took means the company saved a few million in wages and got a big bonus for completing early, so it makes sense to me for the contractors to cost it out and then add an extra year for good measure!!! eh?
Secondly how convenient to open it when the schools are off, and then flood the press with stories of how you can make it down to Belfast in just 5 minutes, you always good in the summer. It will be interesting to see how traffic will compare when the schools go back to before the building work, as most of us now are used to being stuck in Jams due to the work. This will be interesting to see.
On the plus point tho, I think the investment into the roads service and all the building work in Belfast is a fantastic thing... We now after 10 years of peace have the makings of a fantastic European city
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Regarding the flooding of this weekend (17th August 2008) It is obvious what went wrong.
The builders had the plans upside down when the built the thing.
This is the only possible excuse, since 55 years ago the dogs in the street in Belfast knew that the Bog Meadows flooded uncontrollably several times a year, & that the runoff was impossible to control, and this was before they built the Boucher Road complex which effectiv ley removed 95% of Belfast's floodplain.
As things are now, in the event of a flood, if you start the pumps, the water may only be pumped round in circles, because it has nowhere to go in such conditions.
Yes. the only possible answer is that the builder were intending to build a flyover, but they had the plans upside down.
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