But the argument can be applied to the capital expenditure requirements of the highway just as much as the recurrent expenditure demands of the public servants. The money that the Government intends to borrow to construct the highway will eventually have to be repaid-and with interest. This is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The direct issue for the Government-and for the people of this country-is whether the highway can generate enough business opportunities and enough savings from the reduced time to come close to justifying the expenditure of $7.2 billion. It is quite likely that the Government sees the construction of the highway from T&T's second largest city to the community in which Atlantic LNG, the country's single largest revenue source, is located in the context of its plans to create a major growth pole in southwest Trinidad. The population would only be able to form a proper judgment on whether (or if) this highway is a billion-dollar road to nowhere or a potential growth pole on the basis of a scientific cost-benefit analysis that takes all the possible scenarios and permutations into consideration. Such a cost benefit analysis is recommended to the Government before it commits the country to the expenditure of billions of dollars. In that context, too, we call on the Government to publish and disseminate the findings of the multi-million-dollar Comprehensive National Transportation Study-conducted by the lead firm of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas and submitted in November 2006-for the purpose of initiating a public discussion or consultation on the issue of national transportation.