Garden Bridge promoter must pay £10M to TfL

摘要

The charity behind the proposed Thames Garden Bridge must repay £10M of Transport for London (TfL)'s contribution to the project, it emerged this week. TfL, which is chaired by London Mayor Boris Johnson, had pledged £30M to the project but last week slashed this to £10M. In the meantime the charity has already spent £20M of the sum on preconstruction work. It is understood that a deal is being finalised to give the trust 50 years from the point the bridge opens to repay the £10M. The deal is thought to be a compromise which will end a stand off between TfL and Lambeth Council over the granting of a lease for land at the bridge's southern landfall.