Dear Editor,
In relation to Harbour bridge deterioration ‘almost criminal’ – President, 2008/10/12. This is what you get from building a floating bridge. The rate of depreciation will speed up in the later years. Therefore, the cost of maintenance will increase as the bridge gets older. All bridges and infrastructure are like this, but a floating bridge is especially costly in later years.
Now, why do I get the impression that the Presi-dent’s aggression is intended to deflect attention from his overall failures in managing the economy, especially the Skeldon investment? Is this a case where he is projecting subliminal messages to the uninformed masses that this President knows what he is doing but the managers don’t?
Now Mr. President, remind me again who is building another floating bridge in the year 2008? Is this another case of short-termism? Is it another case of trying to win some short-term praise with poor economic decisions that will have substantial long-term costs? Is this a case of shifting the costs to future generations as Burnham had done with the current floating bridge?
Yours faithfully,
T. Khemraj
(Comment extracted from Stabroek News website)
