Sunday 28 June 2009

My own highway

I just traveled on a highway where I had (many times) the impression that mine was the only car on it. Which highway was this? The A8 and its extension to Aveiro (and then Oporto). With such a route being so scarsely traveled, the question is why is the Portuguese government planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a third highway between Lisbon and Oporto. In a 'resources famine' situation like Portugal is now enduring, this seems to be an avoidable and highly questionable investment, that is not demand driven (remember A8 is almost 'desert')...

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