BBC: Brazil's airports won't be ready
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Originally Posted by newyorkgeorge
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Rousseff as she said needs to open the upgrading process up to private investment. Give incentives for finishing ahead of schedule and stiff penalties for not. Imagining a couple of extra 200,000 people at GIG or GRU is not pretty.
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Just saw that the country's head of civil aviation has said the airports will be ready and there's no cause for concern.
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They have been building a new airport in VIX for the past 4 or 5 years. Start and stop due to fraud uncovered. Now supposed to be ready in 2013. Don't know of any events scheduled to take place in VIX connected to either the World Cup or Olympics, but might be an alternative. Just don't know if the new terminal will have facilities for Passport Control and Customs. They currently do get cargo flights nonstop from Miami with 767s, and I imagine someone has to inspect the crew, not to mention the crew on ships since it is a shipping port. So there are some inspection resources there that could be augmented.
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Brazil to Sell Airports in Sao Paulo, Brasilia to Host World Cup, Olympics
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It seems unlikely thatanything will be ready. Not one stadium is on schedule, IIRC. None of the airports are progressing as needed. The facilities are poor at best eerywhere. Public transport options are all behind schedule or not started. Facilities for teams, support and visitors are all behind.
I hate to be a pessimist, but this is a disaster in process. We still have debate about whether and how to privatize airports, much less final designs and work started. It smells like the Pan American games but worse.:( |
Originally Posted by jbcarioca
(Post 16507831)
It seems unlikely thatanything will be ready. Not one stadium is on schedule, IIRC. None of the airports are progressing as needed. The facilities are poor at best eerywhere. Public transport options are all behind schedule or not started. Facilities for teams, support and visitors are all behind.
I hate to be a pessimist, but this is a disaster in process. We still have debate about whether and how to privatize airports, much less final designs and work started. It smells like the Pan American games but worse.:( And yes, I hope I'm wrong on both cases. :( |
Isnt this a repeat of South Africa..... and in the end, everything was finished on time. Why will this be different....?
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Originally Posted by Gaucho100K
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Isnt this a repeat of South Africa..... and in the end, everything was finished on time. Why will this be different....?
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Veja magazine
For anyone with access to this week's Veja magazine, can see the small corruption story of Infraero and why Brazilian airports are in such condition right now.
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Originally Posted by jbcarioca
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snip - snip - It is hard to be optimistic when you read the newspaper every day. Of course President Dilma is beginning regular meetings of all concerned, albeit starting that rather too late. I hear this so many times while in Brazil. With the lack of progress towards Brazil being ready for the upcoming events, I tend to believe the above quotation. - |
Things will fall together eventually. It might be crowded at the airports but I am sure things will come together. There are enough powerful and rich people who stand to make tons of money for them not to.
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Here is an interesting article that appears in today's New York Times concerning Brazil.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/op...5.html?_r=1&hp |
Originally Posted by dgcpaphd
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Here is an interesting article that appears in today's New York Times [/url]
There was even a report by economists of Banco Santander today suggesting that Brazil will have fewer people living in poverty than does the US by the end of 2011! The progress is astounding and mostly very positive. There are still negatives and the topic of this thread is one of them. Public works here seem to fall victim of what Henrique Mirelles, the new head of the games coordinating body, calls a "vibrant democracy". He's correct. Brazil is a very immature democracy so nobody is comfortable asserting dominance over anyone elses right to stop something. Thus there remains lots of impunity and progress is sometimes slow. Today I am optimistic. I think we'll somehow be ready.;) Don't ask about tomorrow.:( |
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