Alfred - I know a former Gammon employee who acted as a 'bagman', ferrying payback cash to the right quarters in Goa. Eric.
--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Alfred de Tavares <alfredtava...@hotmail.com> wrote Perhaps Gamon India has proposed it? AT > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:48:37 +0530 > From: tonyde...@gmail.com > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] The Dona Paula - Marmagoa Sea Link > > Every one is all agog with excitement over the Dona Paula - Marmagoa Sea > Link. One politician even talked about the hypothetical benefits to be > accrued by the denizens of his constituency who will save time and fuel by > travelling over the sea link to Panjim and North Goa. > > But is the sea link all that vital and is it all that necessary? And that > too at an unimaginable cost, 1000 crores to be exact? Aren't there more > viable alternatives? I would rather, as activist Oscar Rebello puts it, > have better roads. > > The old ferry service which ran a launch from Dona Paula to Marmagoa and > vice versa was not usable during the monsoons because the sea was choppy. > But in these modern times there are ferries that ferry not only people but > also cars along with them which can withstand the kind of choppy waters that > one would experience during the monsoons. > > I am not a technical person, but I am sure there are competent people world > wide on Goanet who can give us an opinion. > > BTW The way that some MLAs are rooting for the project leads me belive that > there is pots of money to be made on the project :-) > But isn't that what we elect them for? To make more money by deluding us. > Fools aren't we? Rather gluttons for punishments! > > -- > _ > / _) Tony de Sa > .-^^^-/ / M; +91 9975 162 897 > __/ / Ph: +91 832 2470 148 > <__.|_|--|_| tonyd...@gmail.com > :._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.: > In a world without fences, who needs Gates? _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us
