Não é só em Portugal que o investimento em obras públicas ultrapassou as necessidades de tráfego. Também em Espanha que fala de aeroportos e estradas vazias, elefantes brancos no gíria jornalística.
Ao contrário de Castellón, o Aeroporto de Beja, onde o Estado gastou só 33 milhões de euros, já recebeu cinco vôos, ainda que só transportam na média 17 passageiros.
Castellón no NY Timees, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/business/global/25iht-transport25.html?ref=europeansovereigndebtcrisis
Beja no Correio da Manhã http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/nacional/economia/17-passageiros-por-voo-em-beja
"Castellón Airport, built at a cost of 150 million euros ($213 million), is not the only white elephant that now dots Spain’s infrastructure landscape. Spain’s first privately held airport — in Ciudad Real in central Spain — was forced to enter bankruptcy proceedings a year ago because of a similar lack of traffic."
Castellón no NY Timees, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/business/global/25iht-transport25.html?ref=europeansovereigndebtcrisis
Beja no Correio da Manhã http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/nacional/economia/17-passageiros-por-voo-em-beja
"...In the Long Depression of the 1870s, the railroads found they had over-invested in transportation capacity. Speculating on future growth and the returns on land development, they collectively built more rail lines than could be put to productive use. The result was a huge financial correction in which the private-sector railroads consolidated their routes, down-sized their unproductive infrastructure and put their reserve capacity into endeavors that had a higher rate of return. This was a painful, but necessary, correction...."
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