The new light rail in Odense is expected to be eight months late, and it’s going to cost Mavibet the municipality dearly.
the Delay of a new light rail is going to cost the Municipality of Odense 180 million crowns.
It writes Jyllands-Posten.
the Information comes from a now published minutes from the Odense City last meeting 13. October.
In the minutes, it says that you expect the services completed within 1. september 2021.
It will be a delay of eight months.
the Price for the delay in the city council after negotiations with the subcontractors got to know will be 180 million dollars.
Thus increasing the project’s total price from 3,399 billion dollars to 3,579 billion.
the Reason for the delay of the construction is found primarily in the Thomas B. Thriges Street. Here is transmitted the delay of construction of an underground parking garage on the letbanebyggeriet.
– A consequence to the outcome of the negotiations is that the city in certain areas to be expected must endure longer periods with affected the flow of traffic, in a briefing to the city council.
It added that traffic to a certain extent, nevertheless had been affected due to the delay of the parking garage.
The 180 million comes Odense Municipality – and thereby the citizens – even to pay, writes Jyllands-Posten.
– It is a significant consumption of the reserves as the Municipality of Odense has put of. We use approximately half of the reserves on it here, says Stefan Birkebjerg Andersen, who is stadsdirektør in the Odense Municipality, TV2 Fyn.
In the orientation to the city council says that you could have the map something of the extended time of the project for a price of 50 million dollars.
But you have chosen to compromise on the time instead to pay more.
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