Curiosidade do dia

Parece que o SIRESP continua a não estar à altura das exigências!

Como é possível? Então não foi nacionalizado?

"Having fought an expensive civil war against the barons, Henry III was short of money. Jealous of the lucrative revenues earned by the City of London Corporation, which had from London Bridge sided with the barons in the civil war, Henry seized control of the bridge in 1269 and handed its administration to his wife, Eleanor of Provence.

The money raised from tolls was supposed to pay for maintenance and repair, but instead was squandered. The bridge fell into disrepair and, in the winter of 1281-1282, partially collapsed. Henry's son, Edward I, handed the bridge (then the only one in London) back to the City of London Corporation, which has been responsible for the City's bridges ever since. So successful has this been that the City Bridge Foundation has been able not only to maintain the City's five bridges without tolls, but also donates £30m a year to London charities. Meanwhile, Hammersmith Bridge, the responsibility of the Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, has been closed to motor traffic for five years as the council can neither afford repairs nor sees the necessity for them, supposedly because they think it benefits those south of the river more than those north of it.

London Bridge's period of nationalisation is immortalised in the humorous song London Bridge is falling down, the full version of which disparages Queen Eleanor. It set a precedent for future nationalisations: cream off the revenue for other purposes, hand management to inexperienced cronies, mismanage the assets and underinvest. Such a strategy has proved perennially popular with governments."

Trecho retirado de "Nationalisation is not the answer"