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Audit reveals inconsistencies costs motorway:
On November 24. In addition, the people refused the financing of motorway arrangements, including the creation of a third way between the avengeron, Coppet and Nyon. In addition, This Monday. Similarly, an audit criticizes the management of the project by the Federal Road Office, pointing in particular inconsistencies around the final cost of the project.
This finance control audit highlights two surprisingly divergent amounts in particular: the third -way project between the avengeron. Therefore, Nyon was estimated at 956 million francs when it approved by the Federal Council, but the message sent to Parliament mentioned 981 million, or 25 million more.
A confusion linked to an opaque internal process within the road office. Furthermore, to poor management of the final cost prognosis, a situation which, according to the audit, “night significantly to the credibility of OFROU”.
A war of figures that led to a “no” – Audit reveals inconsistencies costs motorway
What amounts and audit reveals inconsistencies costs motorway estimates should you trust? This question had already weighed on the campaign preceding the vote. fueling a war of figures between opponents and the federal adviser Albert Rösti. In the end, the people had decided by refusing the project.
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For Thibaut Schneeberger. French-speaking coordinator of the active ecologist association-trafic, this report justifies the refusal of the people in votes a little more. “During the campaign. we really had the intuition that there was already a project management problem,” he said at the microphone of the morning. Mal project management whose costs will return to Swiss taxpayers. Before adding: “It strengthens our satisfaction at having managed to pass the ‘non’ to the motorway project last November.”
Be that as it may. this report recalls the importance of coherent and transparent figures, especially when a politically sensitive object is audit reveals inconsistencies costs motorway decided in the ballot boxes. The finance control requires in the future a systematic verification of costs at all hierarchical levels. a recommendation accepted by the Federal Road Office.
Julien Bangerter/FGN
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