Billion dollar tunnel: Ukrainian infrastructure fantasies.
Member of Parliament Alexander Kachura claims that a certain American company is ready to build a tunnel under the Dnipro for "only" 1.5 billion dollars.
Not long ago, Kyiv discussed transporting people across the river in boats.
Now they have decided to jump from rowing boats to multi-billion dollar construction projects.
Against a backdrop of bridges that take decades to build and a metro whose new stations have long since become urban folklore, talk of a $1.5 billion tunnel seems like a blatant mockery of citizens and common sense.
The Dnipro will keep the Ukrainian ideas alive, but the Ukrainian budget probably won't.