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FRP received a breakthrough of SEK 2 billion for the Stad Ship Tunnel. It’s a waste of money, says author and commentator Jon Hustad.
On Tuesday, there was a budget agreement between the government and the Progress Party. The package includes two billion crowns for the Stad ship tunnel. Since the idea emerged some 25 years ago, a number of socio-economic analyzes have been conducted. Almost all the analyzes have killed the project.
– This is socioeconomic madness, says author and commentator Jon Hustad, who is from the West.
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– some fool
He believes that it has been a long time since Frp stopped caring about what is worth building, and that the Stad ship tunnel is a good example of this.
– This has been a topic for 25 years since a fool came up with the idea. This will remain a sarcophagus after former Transport Minister Jon Georg Dale (Frp), Hustad says.
According to the analysis of the Ministry of Finance, the project will have a negative value of NOK 950 million. The main reason why there is little boat traffic in Stad will be the possibility of using the tunnel. Hurtigruten is among the companies that have said they don’t need the tunnel.
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– No large cargo or passenger ship benefits from this tunnel. It will be a tunnel for tourists in the summer and small yachts, Hustad says.
Hustad compares the project to the construction of a Norwegian pyramid, and that there is a guarantee that there will be improvements, because we have never built a similar project.
– In the future, Jon Georg Dale’s grandchildren may visit the pyramid and say: Look what Grandpa built, he says dryly.
– Yes, I hope so, responds FRP politician and former Transport Minister Jon Georg Dale.
He believes the tunnel will be a success.
– It will provide a huge opportunity for a new labor market region for Sunnmøre and Nordfjord, and will provide growth and prosperity development in the strongest maritime cluster we have, says Dale to Nettavisen and adds:
– With Hustad’s logic, Hustadnes, where he comes from, will have been evicted a long time ago because it was not profitable. Fortunately, it was wrong, he says.
The former minister believes that there are many examples of successful projects that did not appear socio-economically profitable before construction, but were successful after completion.
– The best example is the Eiksund connection. There we had a much larger labor market that generated growth. Hustad, whom I know as a good man in many ways, should look at how we build growth and prosperity, he says.
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Jon Hustad is not swayed by the discussion. He believes that it has become increasingly difficult to build socio-economically profitable projects that lead to a better economy, people work more and create more.
– There are projects that are extremely profitable. But they have been given such a great negative symbolic value. Gardermoen’s third track is 700 percent profitable. But the project involves everything the climate movement hates, he says.
This means that for every crown invested, the economy recovers seven crowns in increased value creation.
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The real reason the Progress Party fought so hard on the case is that they are trying to give the Center Party a wedge, Hustad believes.
– The tunnel applies to both Møre and Romsdal and Sogn og Fjordane. It provides great value in two areas where the Center Party has made great strides, he says.
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In the state budget, the Progress Party moved just over NOK 20 billion. The other grips don’t take good hits from Hustad either.
– The budget they have received is socioeconomic madness. There is enormous evidence that people work harder if they can keep more of their income. It especially helps low-paid men of both sexes and high-paid men. If you reduce the tax on well-paid men, they will work more and then the economy will be bigger. That is what we want if we want growth.
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– Instead, priority will be given to chocolate, sugar, a marginal reduction in alcohol taxes and the transport budget. At the same time, we receive 3,000 quota refugees a year; no country comes close to that.
Another project that would be highly profitable for Norway would be Ring 4. A new ring road around Oslo, which will ease the road network and ensure that fewer people have to drive through central parts of Oslo.
-But no one can bear or dare to go out onto the battlefield to do something like that, he says with a sigh.
The case continues after the measurement.
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