Sadiq Khan: London ‘Garden Bridge’ more costly to cancel

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said that cancelling the planned £175m (€227m) ‘Garden Bridge’ would cost UK taxpayers more money than building it, signalling he plans to proceed with the controversial project.

If the 366-meter (1,200-feet) pedestrian bridge is scrapped, the government and Transport for London would lose the £37.7m paid out, Mayor Khan said yesterday in his first appearance before the London Assembly since he was elected on May 5.

If it is built, tax receipts and loan repayments from the charitable trust building the bridge would whittle the public’s bill down to £18m, he said.