How much? Scrapped Garden Bridge has cost taxpayers over £40m

By Jordan Marshall2019-02-13T12:48:00

Abandoned scheme swallowed up more than £50m of cash in total

Transport for London has confirmed the final cost of Thomas Heatherwick’s controversial Garden Bridge project topped £50m.

TfL, which has now published a detailed breakdown of the final expenditure of the Garden Bridge Trust, the charity in charge of the project, revealed that it swallowed up £53.5m up of cash before being pulled 18 months ago.

Around £43m of this was public money with £24m coming from TfL and the remainder fom the Department for Transport.

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