Up to September last year, all lots of the $3.8B East Coast Highway improvement project were behind schedule and contractors cited varied excuses including a shortage of construction material, according to the 2013 report of the Office of the Auditor General.
The amounts of $400m and $735m were spent in the years 2011 and 2012. For 2013, $1.106b was budgeted to be spent for studies and the design of the four-lane highway from Better Hope to Golden Grove and on preparatory widening works from Better Hope to Annandale. An amount totalling $1.029b was spent during 2013 bringing total payments as at December 31, 2013 to $2.164b.
Lot 1 which had been originally awarded to Falcon Transpor-tation and Construction Services was terminated and
