Commenting on today’s Highways Agency announcement that it has chosen Connect Plus as its provisional preferred bidder for the new PFI deal to upgrade and manage the M25, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Norman Baker said:

“Ministers have clearly failed to learn the lessons of the Metronet fiasco. Let’s hope this project doesn’t end up wasting taxpayers’ money by turning into a similar disaster.
 
“Judging by the Department for Transport’s terrible financial record, they will be popping champagne corks in the board rooms of these companies tonight.
 
“We already know that widening the M25 will be an environmental disaster, but it may well be heading for financial disaster as well.”