First you would have to get it past the Australian greenies, quite a task in itself.
But many paper nags would solve that little problem in time.
Next would be the aboriginals looking for their cut, some abbo probably shite, pissed or walked over this area making it sacred and costing many bottles of grog or metho.
They, once past these hurdles comes the swooping parasites of various grubberment departments looking to get their cut and blood.
Again, many brown paper bags would overcome these obstacles.
The selection process for a suitable contractor would take many years, and many many more brown paper bags, as it passed from one potential sub contractor to another.
The final result would be the cheapest quote, and of course before any real work was carried out the sub contractor would go broke and a new one would have to be sought.
Here comes the selection process again, with many many more brown paper bags.
Tolls would be levied, and more contractors would start handing out brown paper bags again.
By now, some decades after deciding to start this process, many of the original parasites and contractors would have retired and a new lot have come to feed, so more brown paper bags would be handed out.
some 100 years or so after starting the project, costs would have blown out by trillions, the road will still not be finished and grubberments would be demanding Royal Commissions (jobs for the boys)to find out why.
Indian contractors finally finish the road 300 years after starting, but the inaugural use sees hundreds injured and killed as the road falls apart.
The Indian company has gone bust and there is no one to sue.
So the grubberment contract out for someone to blow up the road so no one else can be injured.
Out come the brown paper bags again and some 30 years later the road is nothing but rubble.
Now, You may well ask on what premise I base this scenario.
Well, from two road works carried out on the Central coast of NSW
One was a 10 klm stretch of road that took over 20 years to build.
The other, more recent, is the debarkle currently undergoing (he laughs) construction on the Old F3 (now the M1)
They have been widening about 8 klm of road for some 5 years now.
It still looks like a bomb site.
The speed limit has been 80k and the roads around it are falling apart because of all the dirt the keep ferrying backwards and forwards all the time.
My estimate for completion?
I guess by the tricentennial we could possibly see it finished, but I have my doubts.
Perhaps we just need to get a couple of Chinese, a portable cement mixer and a few shovels, it would be finished by Xmas.
Im still trying to work out if its incompetence, stupidity or inability.
or
If its just a very smart move on the contractors part to drag it out as long as possible.
Oh, and of course there would be brown paper bags for all those in the planning department to keep their heads down and silent about the delays.
Watch this video, and see waht can be done when a less corrupt grubberment works for the people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfCMbSink1g
The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is now considered the 8th wonder of the world.
At a height of 4714 metres above sea level, it is the highest paved international road.
It connects Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region to China’s Xinjiang region, which is why it has also been nicknamed the Friendship Highway in China.
Construction of the highway began in 1959 and was completed 20 years later in 1979.
But it was not opened to the public until 1986.
Almost 1000 Chinese and Pakistani workers lost their lives to the construction of this monument of a highway that people come to view.
Over 140 Chinese workers who died during the construction are buried in the Chinese cemetery in Gilgit.
The route of the KKH traces one of the many paths of the ancient Silk Road, a trade route that connected the East and West, stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea.
