[ixfo]

The company commissioned to build it were FM Conway. That should have been a bright red flag. FM Conway do roadworks. They fix infrastructure, and rebuild streets. They're a civil engineering firm at best, not structural engineers, nor gardeners; in other words, a deeply inappropriate choice for the company to make it happen. But I would bet good money that WCC have a great relationship with them for other contracts, and I would bet good money that whoever handed out the contract got some great tea money for their site visits.

[TheOtherHobbes]

Someone - not the architects - made a lot of money on this for very little.

Which presumably was always the point of the project.

The fact that something was built at all makes it unusual compared to the Garden Bridge, the Bridge to Ireland, the Estuary Airport, and the rest.