Seas and Ports
With complete mutual consent of the whole LA council, it it agreed that building a port will be too cost expensive at this point and time. So, the only other desicion left, is to link the existing rails in Los Angeles Basin with the Eastern Railway Grand Line at Eastside. But, since the engineering of a port in Chinatown has already began, the council has decided to reveal the plans for the port to the public and to give it to be concessed. In other words, companies enter a competition and give offers to build the port at their expense. The town council will choose the one they think is fulfilling all of the conditions for effective seaport. After completion, the selected company will own the port land for 5 years and manage all trade through the seas. With the completion of the rail extension to Eastside, the construction of the Chinatown Seaport will begin.
Chinatown designated port space:
The port will be build in the Chinatown bay.
The shore is largely unused, leaving just enough space for a port installment:
After announcing the concession, a hanfull of companies proposed their projects for a port. It took some rigourous filtering, but finally, two final plans were selected.
The first one is simple and uses the existing infrastrucure in the town:
The second one is quite complex and requires a lot of investment and terraforming. It includes a drect rail link, and leveled long bay, giving room for future expansions and improvements.
While undoubtly it is much more expensive, it is the one with much more potential for future growth:
Well, the decision where the port have to be build, does not require any imminent answer right now, as the rail is much more important, the time will come when one of the two projects must be chosen. Now everything rests on you, councilors.
Here are some numbers:
Plan A
cost ~15000
time ~5,5 years
new jobs 230 $; 50 $$; 10 $$$
income from tax ~9500 per year
Plan B
cost ~27000
time ~7 years
new jobs 270 $; 65 $$; 13 $$$
income from tax ~11000 per year
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