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Some stories take It never ends. The cable car soon belongs to Gothenburg mythology. It has provided us with the most expensive research in human memory (130 million SEK!), On a public transport solution, theoretically quite nice but in practice expensive and difficult to implement. It was finally closed last fall. Better this way. The people of Gothenburg have almost begun to forget the fiasco.
But then the story of the dead reappears. A secret international company claims to be able to build the cable car for half the price, run the operation and not burden the city with a penny in costs.
Sounds too good to be true? Is. This is the equivalent of the city of Gothenburg to receiving that email from the fictional Nigerian prince promising a million euros. The only thing that is required first is a small payment to the prince’s account.
Who then are the ones who suddenly want to flood Gothenburg with money? Nobody knows. Company representatives Michael Olsson, who sits on various boards of the company, and Magnus Månsson, architect and founder of Semrén & Månsson, cannot say anything.
“We cannot mention in the media what is due to financial market regulations,” they tell GP. “It is an internationally listed company and therefore may not appear until the day we have been awarded a contract.”
How absurd. Therefore, a huge investment in Gothenburg city center would be accepted in good faith. Without any public debate. Without the citizens or the media being able to participate in which company it is before the papers are signed. This would close the democratic conversation (and the process!).
It seems risk-free and nice that it’s private money. But the city would still incur costs. And as the chairman of the city council, Axel Josefson (M) points out in talks with GP: “In the end, they want Gothenburg as financial guarantor if the traffic volumes are not reached. I would say that the risk finally ends in Gothenburg.”
About that now is for a private company to run the operation for a long time instead of the city, they will want a guarantee that they can do it profitably. No company will participate in charitable activities. But then the company owes the answer: What do you know that the already exhaustive investigation of the cable car has not found?
In the income analysis of the cable car, it was concluded that until 2040, the operation of the cable car would cost up to five times the income. The secret company may know something that the cable car investigators don’t know. They are then happy to, in addition to revealing who they are, to show how they came up with a completely different income analysis.
They also promise that the cable car would cost between 1.5 and 2 billion crowns. Which is less than half of what the city’s investigation concluded. What are they taking off that existing research has not found? According to Josefson, who actually reached out to stakeholders, nothing new has come up that justifies cutting the cost in half.
The only municipal politician who enthusiastically receives the offer is Daniel Bernmar, from the left-wing party. Unexpectedly, a leftist party artist would be more attracted to inviting secret international capital that wants to complete the democratic process and public debate. Hopefully, no other municipal politician will join Bernmar.
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