Some work continued on Thursday at a partly-built $13 billion Mexico City airport that the new president is scrapping, even after the government announced construction had been halted. [...]
The head of the government-run agency responsible for the project, Gerardo Ferrando, said the only construction still underway was to preserve what had already been built, such as drainage works, slabs of foundation and a partly-built tower.
— Reuters
It's unclear what should happen now with the partly built new Mexico City International Airport which, some argue, was about one-third complete. "Construction work is officially suspended on that airport, and negotiations on the early termination of the contracts has begun," said Communications and Transport Minister Javier Jimenez Espriu in a news conference this week.
The mammoth $13 billion infrastructure project was designed by a conglomerate comprising Foster + Partners, FR-EE (Fernando Romero Enterprise), and NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants).
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*cue the heavy sarcasm*...I guess Mexico couldn't afford to "pay" for the airport & the Trump wall simultaneously.
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