Yesterday, I went to Cartago, the nearest large town - to shop at a Walmart store, and pick up my mail, that is flown in from Miami. While I was there, I observed some of its recent architecture - and wondered at it.
One example is the train station. Costa Rica is suffering from traffic jams, from workers commuting to their jobs in the Central area, where the jobs are - and then returning to their homes, where they live. It decided to restore some of the railroads, so that workers could commute on them.
One of these Railroads ran eastward towards Cartago. They patched up the tracks, and bought some self-propelled trains to run on them - and published a timetable - that looked impressive. The original train station still existed, and was adequate - but they decided it had to look better. And they added some bizarre structures to do this.
Then it shut down everything! The trains stopped running, the station was closed - and no explanation was given. I thought people would be upset about this - but no one was. The Government does strange things, they knew - and they did not question why.
The basic pattern here is familiar - make things look impressive, but don't bother to make them work.
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