£50 million has been spent on a delayed UK road.
£50 million has been spent on an incomplete road in Spalding in the UK – image courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council
Questions are being asked in the UK as to why construction work has ground to a halt on a 6.5km road project, with £50 million already having been spent. Work has now ceased on the planned Spalding Western Relief Road in Lincolnshire, leaving an unfinished road.
The work is intended to cut journey times for drivers using the A16, providing a new route around the west side of Spalding, linking the A1175 and A16 to the south and east of to the town, to the B1356 to the north, via the B1172 Spalding Common.
Construction commenced in 2022 but the local council ran out of funding for the £110 million project. Completion is not due until 2030 at the earliest.
