Preparatory work on the southern Macau peninsula part of the light rail system is scheduled to begin before the end of the year, said Ho Cheng-Kai, deputy director of the Macau Transportation and Infrastructure Secretariat on Saturday.
But one of the stated objectives of the LRT system - helping deliver tourists from the Gongbei border gate in Zhuhai to Kotai Streep and the new Kotai Casino Resort, due to open between 2015 and 2018, is unlikely to be achieved during the current casino concession period, which expires between 2020 and 2022.
Macau's legislature said in April that the LRT's peninsular section would not be ready until "2018 or 2019" while the loop running Taipa and Kotai would be ready by 2016.
The government's track record of managing LRT so far raises the question of whether these revised dates can also be met.
When LRT was first proposed in 2003, the budget estimate was MOP5.9 billion ($739 million at the current exchange rate). By 2010, no work had begun, but the budget grew to MOP7.5 billion.
In 2011, Macau's Audit Committee reported that the revised budget was actually MOP110.7 billion, 48% higher than previous expectations.
In 2011, the Board of Audit and Inspection said funds allocated to one LRT sub-project in the Taifa section were reported to be MOP489 million (32% budget-to-budget) and MOP386 million (45% budget-to-budget).
In September 2012, the city's anti-corruption commission, which also serves as a regional ombudsman, sided with the NAPE Neighborhood Society and demanded that the subway line move out of the NAPE regional centres of Rua de Londres and Rua do Porto to the estuary waterfront.
In August 2013, the government threatened to fire a contractor in Taipei's district. The contractor criticized the government for its incompetent project management.
Last year, about 78% of Macau's 29 million visitors arrived via the Macau Peninsula from crossing the Gongbei border, an external ferry terminal or an internal port, according to the Macau government's tourism agency.
However, given that the express line of the Guangzhou-Zhuhai high-speed rail running on the neighboring public market holiday island of Hung-chien is scheduled to be completed by 2016, the lotus bridge crossing from Hung-chien to Kotai could be an increasingly important intersection for the Kotai public market.
However, the deployment of Lotus Bridge, which currently includes tourists busing across lands where tourists are deserted from the Chinese side to Kotai, would be difficult to significantly increase the number of daily tourists compared to Gongbei, where visitors are delivered directly to the arrivals hall.
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