Nice to hear a government willing to make short-term economic sacrifices for the long-term benefit of the country. So often governments only care about the 5 or so years they are in power and nothing beyond that.,(reply>), John Peric na,(reply>), Windhelm Guard Yes much like the Hoover dam,(reply>), i think you misinterpreted what tom was saying.<br>the project was started precisely to help the economy in a short term kind of way, during the recession construction companies would have been going bankrupt left and right (along with industry supporting construction like machine manufacturers, concrete and steel factories and so on) so the government started this huge construction project precisely to help said companies through the recession so there wouldn't be a massive amount of unemployed construction and heavy industry workers asking for welfare which would have been expensive AND pointless, whereas the tunnel system was expensive but actually served a purpose.