aryobarzan
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Construction is labour intensive no matter where you are. For Iran building anything be it roads, buildings or military tunnels is great activity...why...Over $1b needed to improve 10 freeways across Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian Deputy Transport and Urban Development Minister Kheirollah Khademi has said that 45 trillion rials (about $1.07 billion) is needed for improving 10 major freeways across the country in the next two years, IRNA reported.www.tehrantimes.com
For those who think everything in Iran can be done “cheap” and costs are next to nothing. Sometimes we hear absurdly unrealistic figures to build certain military projects, article above shows that to “improve” just 10 freeways in Iran would cost $1B USD.
So while things are certainly cheaper in Iran, they aren’t basically free like some people think.
1-Material (cement, asphalt, gravel, etc..) are in full domestic supply
2-Labour : dirt cheap and fully available
3- heavy machinery : available if not replaced by manual labour
SO : Build, Build and Build....and they are going to do just that under Raisi
Iran Freeway in 1970 : Zero Km
Iran Freeways as of today: 4000 Km (took only 50 years !)
Iran freeways to be built in next 4 years: 6000 km.
Low cost housing to be built in the next 4 years: 4 million
These new Raisi guys know the solution and I will hold them personally to these numbers...lol..Get all those unemployed Iranians to work and build the country . By the way US is also heading toward infrastructure re-build but for them the costs are out of this world..! I worked for an ITS project in Minnesota 20 years ago..i recall some one from MinDot saying the cost of an inner city freeway is $1 billion dollar per mile!!..
last words: construction and Auto industry are two biggest contributors to a country GDP..(Iran auto production to be ramped up to 3 million from the current 800 K. )