Economy minister Vaughan Gething was given a hard time over the weekend about an increase in the amount paid to Transport for Wales (TfW) to preserve services and jobs in a post-Covid world. The exact amount is not stated in the Wales Online article, but simple arithmetic suggests it was just north of £42m.
Pre-Covid, the cost of 8km of dual carriageway rose to £321m, over £100m more than the original estimate. Beyond an investigation last year by Hannah Thomas of ITV Wales, I do not recall much of a fuss. Is the Heads-of-the-Valleys dualling not also a "money pit" judged by the standards of the TfW critics?
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