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Serhei's avatar

Oil money plus unimaginative bureaucrats equals stupidly overpriced highway projects.

I wonder if Iceland has the same problems. The tunnel under the fjord to Akranes seems a completely bonkers scale of development for that size of country. But they built it.

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Rikard's avatar

I saw the 40bn, and immediately did as I always do when reading about (predictably failing) infrastructural investments in WEF/globalist-dominated nations:

"So if the same sum was invested in the pre-existing infrastructure, how much more efficient would it become?"

Say 40 000 000 000 NSK spent on more and larger ferries f.e. We can throw in maintenance in the cost as well.

Of course, improving pre-existing structures removes profit incentives from corporations and politicians. As does intelligent and effect-optimal solutions.

Look at a map of Scania and Denmark. Notice how much closer together Helsingör and Helsingborg is compared to Malmö and Copenhagen. Yet, the bridge was built between those two.

The logical logistical choice is H+H. Not only a shorter bridge, but traffic would bypass Malmö and Copenhagen completely, removing the need for extensive expensive rebuildings and redrawings of highways et c.

But Malmö and Copenhagen had more political clout and putting the bridge where it is was more profitable to capitalists, and also prestigeful (except for all the East European workers who died building it), so it is where it's at.

I bring this up because I'm certain the exact same is in play in Norway: prestige, profiteering and political pull outweighing logic and logistics.

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