Ah, die Ironie des Ganzen! In einem Land, in dem die Straßen Hindernisparcours ähneln und Müll um Platz konkurriert, erwägen geschätzte Abgeordnete eine 30-Millionen-Euro-Rennstrecke, um Straßenrennen einzudämmen. Vielleicht hoffen sie, dass die Schlaglöcher als natürliche Bremsschwellen dienen. Man muss ihre Prioritäten bewundern – denn wer braucht schon eine grundlegende Infrastruktur, wenn man eine glänzende neue Rennstrecke für die 15.000 Supersportwagen haben kann, die unsere Straßen zieren?
MPs discuss €30m circuit to tame street racers, as 15,000 supercars in Cyprus
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It’s a special kind of wishful thinking to hope that if you give people avenue to go fast on the circuit they will stop going too fast on the streets. What it will do instead is normalize/popularize racing in cars and for every supercar on the circuit there will be a wannabe kid in his old VW Golf on the streets.
15,000 supercars? I am really curious as to how they define what a supercar is because I find that number really dubious.
Finally, we entered the 21st century.
Why are they using taxpayers money for this? Would it not make more sense to have the owners of these cars pay extortionate insurance and road tax to make it harder for these cars to be around?
Don’t tell this Ersin otherwise he will order from Turkey a race track twice as large.
The owners of those cars should foot the bill
I think OP hasn’t driven in other countries. Cyprus has some of the best and well kept roads and without toll roads.
Yet again putting the oligarchs over the local population. Fuck em, take their cars, auction them off and build museums and schools
They have spent 25mil of taxpayers money to build a stadium in Limassol for private companies that use it to profit while we the taxpayers get nothing out of it. Now they want to do the same for the rally boys meanwhile our hospitals, schools and roads resemble Afghanistan after the war.
This is much needed, finally they realized how other countries get speed junkies off the street and into a safer environment for everyone
Nationalize costs, privatize benefits.
For that cost you could easily make Cypriot public transport usable for all rather than the current rather poor state. Make the country work for everyone not just the rich.
I’m not a street racer, but I’m confident that a race track won’t help curb street racing. If you drive a sports car daily and just want to go fast, you’re not going to head to the track.
But there’s a race track in Achna already – someone’s about to cash in big time