Better to stop Metro now

[NewsWhore]

Electrical engineer Luis Arthur warns that the cost of continuing with the Metro is way beyond the cost of admitting its untimely construction and stopping now. The builders have started construction works at different points across the 14 kilometer route, giving the impression that to stop it now would be impossible as the city would be left full of holes. Writing in El Caribe, Arthur makes the point: "A train, that if it is ever inaugurated, will start like another bottomless pit of subsidies and improvisations, having served only to enrich a few who will not learn their lessons, of building without tenders, without a budget, without transparency, with the state footing the bill, at our expense. "If you compare the train with the ancient and growing electricity problem, we will find that electricity at least serves everybody and is indispensable for production, development and quality of life. The little 14-km train will benefit only a few in its transversal crossing of the city, on the secondary route from Villa Mella to La Feria. All will pay so very few can benefit. That is the wrong way to govern! A President that squeezes the country and its people as he tries to fulfill a pharaonic dream, will find it difficult to serve the rest of his term in peace and tranquility, and finish with prestige, let alone get himself re-elected, concludes Arthur. Arthur is very critical of the government for continually increasing taxes without rationalizing its performance, without revising excesses on its payroll and spending. "Unwisely, the government stubbornly plunged into building a train, ignoring all opposition, and now wants to squeeze the population and demand more sacrifices," he writes, in reference to the announced new tax adjustment. He mentions that the President has not been able to meet practically any of the objectives he outlined in his inaugural speech to the nation.

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