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Full marks to Labour County Councillor Keith Bobbin for uncovering a huge cock-up that caused big delays for people using the Pitsea flyover.<\/p>\n

HIGHWAY bosses have been forced to admit repairs to stop Pitsea flyover leaking failed because they were following the wrong plans.<\/p>\n

Essex County Council has been accused of a cover-up after being forced to reveal the real reason for the botched job.<\/p>\n

The admission comes nearly a year after the Echo exposed water was still seeping through the structure, despite two multi-million pound repairs to the crossing.<\/p>\n

The authority has finally conceded the blunder, which caused months more misery to motorists, in response to questions from Keith Bobbin, Labour county councillor for Pitsea.<\/p>\n

Highways chiefs admitted planning the repairs using an old blueprint for the crossing which differed to how it was eventually built in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n

This meant contractors worked on the wrong parts of the bridge and left leaks in other areas. The estimated cost of work to the flyover has now soared to ?14.5million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More in the Echo here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Incidentally, Mr Bobbin doesn’t seem to be afraid of treading on anybody’s<\/em> toes – here’s what he said in the Independent <\/a>about Tony Blair in May 2006 :<\/p>\n

* KEITH BOBBIN, BASILDON<\/p>\n

“He should stand down soon. He is only hanging on to pass Margaret Thatcher’s record in power. He should have gone after last year’s election. I think that Tony Blair was a liability to the party and local members are leaving the party.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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