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Mexico voters cancel new airport already 1/3 complete
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:48 am
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:48 am
WTF?
"President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he would abide by the results of the vote" ...
"Cancellation of the current project, which is about one-third complete, involves the loss of more than $5 billion already spent, and could lead holders of $6 billion in bonds issued to finance the work to demand immediate payment."
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"President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he would abide by the results of the vote" ...
"Cancellation of the current project, which is about one-third complete, involves the loss of more than $5 billion already spent, and could lead holders of $6 billion in bonds issued to finance the work to demand immediate payment."
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Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:48 am to Morty
We have the greatest immigrants, don’t we folks.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:50 am to Morty
They'll actually finish it and keep it under a heat lamp for the next customer.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:51 am to Morty
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Mexico voters cancel new airport already 1/3 complete
WTF?
A poor decision by Mexico and you're asking WTF?
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:51 am to Morty
He's going to be so fricked once he gets in office. PEMEX 'bout to get downgraded by S&P and Moody's too. Good luck with getting investments into the country.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:53 am to Morty
And I thought the new MSY was a cluster
Posted on 10/29/18 at 9:58 am to Morty
3rd world country doing 3rd world things.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:12 am to Morty
Was the airport going to be commercially feasible? If not, this would be much better than doing what Canada did in building Mirabel. It was supposed to replace Dorval/Trudeau Airport but it never caught on due to its distance from Montreal. Now, it's only used for cargo and shooting scenes where a terminal is needed.
Mirabel Airport
Mirabel Airport
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 10:14 am
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:12 am to jimbeam
Ah, yes. Let the Mexican hate begin......
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:14 am to Morty
Knowing how heavy construction works, it was probably billed to the tax payers as a 500 MM project. And how is an airport in Mexico ballon to 5 Billion dollars? Sounds like the tax payers are calling BS on the shame.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:14 am to ctiger69
Y'all should read about the cluster that is Berlin's new (still not opened) airport. Makes this look like nothing.
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 10:15 am
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:19 am to Anfield Road
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Mexico voters cancel new airport already 1/3 complete
Was the airport going to be commercially feasible? If not, this would be much better than doing what Canada did in building Mirabel. It was supposed to replace Dorval/Trudeau Airport but it never caught on due to its distance from Montreal. Now, it's only used for cargo and shooting scenes where a terminal is needed.
Mirabel Airport
That's a great website!
World Abandoned...
Posted on 10/29/18 at 10:50 am to Morty
Reminds of this airport China built in Sri Lanka that no one uses:
LINK
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Beyond the lonely highway itself, there is a 35,000-seat cricket stadium, an almost vacant $1.5 billion deepwater port and, 16 miles inland, a $209 million jewel known as “the world’s emptiest international airport.”
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, the second-largest in Sri Lanka, is designed to handle a million passengers per year. It currently receives about a dozen passengers per day. Business is so slow that the airport has made more money from renting out the unused cargo terminals for rice storage than from flight-related activities. In one burst of activity last year, 350 security personnel armed with firecrackers were deployed to scare off wild animals, the airport’s most common visitors.
Projects like Mattala are not driven by local economic needs but by remote stratagems. When Sri Lanka’s 27-year civil war ended in 2009, the president at the time, Mahinda Rajapaksa, fixated on the idea of turning his poor home district into a world-class business and tourism hub to help its moribund economy. China, with a dream of its own, was happy to oblige. Hambantota sits in a very strategic location, just a few miles north of the vital Indian Ocean shipping lane over which more than 80 percent of China’s imported oil travels. A port added luster to the “string of pearls” that China was starting to assemble all along the so-called Maritime Silk Road.
Sadly, no travelers came, only the bills. The Mattala airport has annual revenues of roughly $300,000, but now it must repay China $23.6 million a year for the next eight years, according to Sri Lanka’s Transport and Civil Aviation Ministry.
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This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 10:50 am
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:05 am to Morty
An airport? Hell, SCE&G said.....hold my beer.
They shut down completion of a half built nuclear plant.
They shut down completion of a half built nuclear plant.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:09 am to Tigeralum2008
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That's a great website!
World Abandoned...
yep, there went my day...
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:16 am to Morty
Can we stand it on it's side and use it as part of the wall?
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:17 am to theGarnetWay
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Reminds of this airport China built in Sri Lanka that no one uses:
China has built cities that are virtually uninhabited. Central planning for you.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:24 am to Morty
Their voters are probably smart enough to realize how stupid it would be to build high speed rail at least.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:25 am to TheHarahanian
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They'll actually finish it and keep it under a heat lamp for the next customer.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:39 am to Morty
Partially constructed buildings are pretty common in poor areas of central and South America.
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