Will Sofia finally have the desired airport...
On Monday I went to the official start of building the path to the new terminal of Sofia Airport.
It seems to be quite an ambitious project, and an expensive one as well - the construction company "Mostroy" will get more than 8 milion levs. The road that is going to connect "Brussles" blvd and the new terminal is going to be only around 2 km long, yet it will take 1 year to build it.
Well, according to the words of the Ministry of transport PR, there is no way that the road connection or the new terminal will be late.She assured me that everything will be alright and we will have terminal+road at one time, nice and functioning
BUT, there is one big BUT:)
There is still around 30% of the land, where the road connection is supposed to pass through, that are not agreed upon with the owners.This might cause "slight" misunderstandings and long battles in court...A year is quite an optimistic term...
Then, comes the "latin soap opera" (as I decided to call it a bit ironically) with the new airport terminal.It is a long and complicated story, which i do not have the patience to tell now, yet the essence is this:
A loooong time ago(around 2001), some minister signed some not very well prepared contract with one "respected" Austrian construction company to build a new and beautiful airport terminal. Well, this comapny is respected, to my surprise, although all the other contracts that it has with the Bulgarian state (to build and reconstruct roads) are a total and complete failior...
Anyway, it turns out to be, instead of a fairy-tale with happy end a long, painful and money consuming horror story.
They want to have more money and posponed the opening of the new terminal at least 5 times. Well, indeed the parts of the building that are ready, have already given sam defects - the ceiling fell, for example.
So...now the promise is that the terminal is going to be ready till September.
Yet I have a reason not to completely trust the PRs.Not only because of the story of the little shephard that lied all his life, and when once he wanted to tell the truth - noone believed him.
It is because I want to reach these guys to make a report on the progress of the terminal. And the construction company and the airport authorities are constantly passing the ball to each other. It seems to me they are not so free and ready to tell the truth...
Unfortunately, until some people are making some big mess around it, the new terminal might be build, yet...it might again prove insufficient for the ever growing needs of Sofia...

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