Job connecting motorway with planned garden village at Lancaster mothballed over costs
Costain has said a road job it was working on which was due to link the M6 with south Lancaster will not affect the firm’s future workloads despite it being pulled.
The firm has seen several highways jobs bite the dust in recent weeks including work to upgrade the central reservation on the trans-Pennine M62 because of costs while it was dropped from a roster of firms lined up to carry out improvement work on the A66 in northern England leaving Balfour Beatty, Kier and Keltbray in the mix.
The latest setback has seen a road connecting a proposed garden village in south Lancaster with junction 33 of the motorway put on ice because of costs.
Costain said it had been acting as a consultant on the job for Lanc