Public Progress Report; December 29, 4784From the Office of the PremierReport on the Progress of Transportation Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, and HousingTransportation InfrastructurePost Project Highway and Rail MapLight Grey: Highways
Grey: Vitafu-Naranpá Railway
Dark Grey: Vitafu-Kipini Railway
Issue: With the industrialization Liore had achieved following the establishment of the Socialist State and the particular rapid growth of the mineral extraction and refinement sectors, the limits of our infrastructure had been reached and strained, causing tremendous traffic congestion issues for civilian and industrial use alike due to the limitation of infrastructure development to the west coast. The congestion created by this underdevelopment has caused the civilian population a great headache and has hindered Liore's economic development.
Completed: After seven years of hard work by our strong and determined volunteer workforce, the completion of Liore's highway and railway development project is nearing it's end. Before the project, Liore only had one continuous highway (Running from Mweza to Nzurchanga) and one railway (Running from Vitafu to Naranpá). Now, Liore's highway system has been expanded into a network connecting every major city in the nation, even reaching far off and once isolated cities such as Jarha and Darobi. A railway line between Vitafu and Kipini has also been constructed and opened for use, which will now allow for the east transportation of goods from the west coast to the south east coast.
Future: Though this infrastructure project has vastly improved transportation in Liore, it has been largely limited to high speed travel lines while ignoring smaller roads used more often by the public. In the future, the government will work on the expansion of this road system, as well as the repair of current roads. This project will however be pursued at a later date, as resources and manpower from the infrastructure project will be reallocated to other government projects, particularly the government housing construction project.
Renewable EnergyIssue: Liore's reliance on oil and natural gas as a source for energy has allowed for the pollution of our environment and has made the nation reliant on imports from large oil exporters such as Vascania. With oil and natural gas being the only energy source in Liore for years, it has become difficult to expand electricity to rural areas due to the local inhabitants' aversion to the pollution that comes with the creation of energy from these sources. Because of this, a sizeable portion of the Liori population has lived their lives without the benefits of electricity.
Completed: One of the major factors in preventing Liore from seeking the development of its renewable energy sector has been the tremendous cost that would come with such an endeavor, and so it has never been economically realistic for us to pursue this development. However, thanks to primarily Yingdalan grants from the Eastern Development Organization in their Greenify Dovani initiative, Liore has finally become able to put the tips of her toes in the pond of renewable energy, and has been able to use these funds to build her renewable energy sector. The first initiative of this project, to erect small solar farms in Liore's rural villages for public use, has been completed and largely been a success, with electricity use in rural Liore more than quadrupling since the beginning of the project in 4779. The second initiative, the construction of larger solar farms in Liore's urban areas to supplement oil and natural gas as energy sources, is still in progress, though the solar farm projects of Yamabiro and Nzurchanga have been completed successfully, and have reduced their reliance on oil and natural gas by 18% and 24% respectively.
Future: Liore's immediate renewable energy goals are to finish the solar farm projects currently in the works. Currently, it is planned for the solar farms of Ndardhi, Kipini, and Naranpá to be completed within the next three years, especially with the reallocation of manpower, resources, and funding from other completed projects. In the future, the government plans on harnessing the potential geothermal and hydropower energy sources from Liore's underground heat vents and rivers.
HousingIssue: When the government housing project began in 4780, a depressing 27% of Liore's population was classified as homeless, with a vast majority of these homeless living in the urban areas of the west coast. It is needless to say that such a grey statistic could not be allowed to go on without intervention. It is, after all, the role of the government to look after the proletariat during the transition to communism.
Completed: Throughout the western coast, volunteers have been hard at work constructing housing complexes in Liore's urban centers, and a great number of these complexes have been completed. In Yamabiro and Mweza, all planned complexes have been completed and homelessness in these cities have been nearly eradicated. In Naranpá, where their planned complexes will be completed by the first quarter of next year, homelessness has dropped by nearly 80%. Though in other cities progress is being made, Yamabiro, Mweza, and Naranpá are only the most successful, with not another city completing more than half of their planned complexes. However, though the project is far from completed, overall homelessness throughout Liore has fallen by more than 40%, and it can only fall lower and lower.
Future: First we must complete what we have started before we move on to more ambitious plans. Estimates suggest that the last complexes will be completed anytime between 4788 and 4790. This project, however, will only eradicate homelessness in Liore's urban centers, and in the future we will have to work to tackle homelessness in rural areas. The quality of these complexes will also be a cause for concern. Currently, these complexes are very low cost and meant for emergency use. Though we've cut no corners in ensuring their safety, the amenities provided are extremely lacking. For the time being, this is a requirement in order to prevent the budget from skyrocketing since the housing is provided free of charge and only requires that beneficiaries seek government employment in order to temporarily occupy these complexes. In the future when the economic situation of Liore is greater, we'd also like to see the improvement in the quality of government housing rather than just its expansion.