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As he's from the Highways Agency, he appears to be looking at this totally as a road project which is worryingly wrong for a reply from a supposedly cross-discipline Government web site! Who is 'wearing the trousers' in this relationship?
I am inclined to agree that £300 million is a hell of a lot of money. Is this a realistic cost or an over-inflated one?
Conversely, how much might 2km tunnel costs over-run to, including security costs of dealing with the mother-of-all-armies of angry crusties on the march, intent on stopping the work! (Not that I'm saying a M-o-a-A-o-A-C-o-t-m is a bad thing but let's face facts here.)
Andy
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road