The Fund would have provided £500 million to improve transport systems across the County (to put that in persepective that's about 100 years worth of transport grant from Central Government). Using this money many things would have been possible not least of which would have been the speedy re-opening of Chesterton Railway Station.
Central government seems to have finally rejected the Conservative-run County Council's poorly thought through bid for funding at the end of February. The Conservatives' prolonged dithering, as well as their refusal to negotiate with District Councils, has caused their proposals to fail. As a direct result travellers across Cambridgeshire will be condemned to years of increasing congestion.
Given the current state of the Guided Bus project you really do have to wonder if the Conservative Leadership in Shirehall can delivery on any major transport initiative.
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It's interesting that you, and the media in general, are telling this as "the bid has been rejected" - the scheme it was seeking money from has been scrapped. If the scheme's scrapped, how can you receive money from it? It's failure-by-default, rather than rejection... isn't it?
The Council put it's bid in before the scheme was scrapped. Therefore the government had full view of the County's bid when it decided to scrap the scheme.
They had the option of giving the money to the County and then scrapping the scheme but they decided to just scrap it instead.
This, to me, (and apparently the press) is rejection.
Were any of the other bids "in the system" at the time it was scrapped awarded anything?
If I'd taken half of my GCSE modules, and the exam board was closed down, would you say I'd failed my GCSEs because I hadn't received the certificates?
A better comparrison would be to compare it to a company tendoring for a job ... If a company submitted a tendor for a job, had it reviewed, and then the company offering the job scrapped it and replaced it with something else I can't see how the company applying for the tender could assume it had done a good job?
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