Although designs are now being developed, there is still no firm commitment from the Council administration to provide the money needed for the actual building and construction of a new Burnshot Bridge.
Along with Alex Cole-Hamilton and Christine Jardine, we are concerned by suggestions that the Council’s 2018/19 budget (due to be agreed next month) may not include all the funding which is necessary to ensure the bridge can be delivered and opened this year.
This is why we have joined together and written formally to the Council Leader, Transport Convener and Finance Convener, to emphasise how important it is that the money is found from this coming year’s budget.
It’s now 14 months since the original bridge closed. Local people have been disrupted enough. We need to have the new Burnshot Bridge opened this year.
You can read out full letter to the Council Leader, Transport Convener and Finance Convener here.