Japan fudges road construction justification
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It has been claimed that false and misleading information was used to justify some of Japans most spectacular road building projects.
Kuniichiro Takahashi, the former president of the state highways agency has claimed that the hugely indebted Government has rediscovered its addiction to public civil engineering works and has earmarked nearly 70 trillion yen (£311 billion) in its budget for road and rail building projects over the next decade.
Ridiculing these new “roads to nowhere”, Mr Takahashi said they were almost certainly unnecessary in a country whose population is ageing, shrinking and buying fewer cars every year. However, major road and rail construction continues to be the favourite tool of pork-barrel politics in Japan.
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Monday 24 December, 2007 11:07 PM |
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