[wolfgke]

> Once the new Berlin airport is finished in about 5-10 years, I'll fly down there to celebrate.

Rather if the new Berlin airport is ever finished...

In other words: If you want to celebrate, rather fly down to Berlin now and celebrate the opening of the Gotthard tunnel in Berlin.

[elcapitan]

I know, I live there ;)

[sanoli]

To all you western europeans complaining: come down to Brazil, and I'll take you on a tour of our "Top Ten Most Abandoned-Halfway Billion Dollar Government Works" ;-)

Oh, and just to give an example, the construction of one of our nuclear power plants began in 1984 but was halted in 1986, only to begin where it left off in 2010, to be finished in 2015. Wait, now it is in 2016. Nope, just checked, it should be in 2018. All the while, the cost to maintain the stuff that was already bought or built is around 20 million a year, since 1986. So yeah, this one is on our TOP TEN list. This little swiss tunnel is not.

[pantalaimon]

Well construction of the Cologne Cathedral started in 1248 and was halted in 1473, only to begin where it left off in 1842 and was eventually completed in 1880 - so don't give up hope ;)

[nickik]

The should have checked in with the Byzantians, the Hagia Sofia was finished in 6 years and remained the largest Cathedral for almost 1000 years.

[dghughes]

In Spain the Sagrada Família cathedral has been under construction for 134 years and has another 30 to go.

[elcapitan]

And it was totally worth the little wait!