Questions over bus station project

There is no question that the Evening Post website is a vast improvement on the poorly presented and woefully edited version that went before. But it still somehow manages to miss out on the more intriguing items that appear in the printed publication.

One example is the news the architects behind the new £10 million Quadrant bus station have walked away from the scheme months before completion. The official reason attributed to designers Jefferson Sheard is that a ’business review’ has prompted their abrupt exit. Insiders however say that there have been so many changes to the long overdue project, that costs are now massively over the original estimates.  There have reportedly been a series of fall-outs between various contractors and the council over who is at fault and who picks up the bill. The current betting is that it will be Swansea’s taxpayers doing the latter.

However, another item which appeared in print, but not on-line, is that Labour have selected Julie James as their candidate for Swansea West in next year’s assembly elections. James is the local authority’s ex-chief legal officer and was something of a utility hate figure for the Lib Dem-run coalition prior to her resignation. No doubt she will be eager to engage in a bit of payback.

Asking some pertinent questions about the bus station would probably be an appropriate starting point.