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“Venue hunting is probably the biggest hurdle to getting these things off the ground,” Mancuso says.

This transport link will have to be built from scratch, but political hurdles far outweigh economic issues.

“I think it helps a lot for people who are victims of fire to see progress,” Abraham told me, saying he’s managed the bureaucratic hurdles and made sure his material suppliers are lined up.

So what if an unforeseen hurdle appeared in front of their October path?

Yet for a man who appears to be on top of the world, he's surprisingly angry, in particular about the increasing hurdles he perceives the government is putting in the way of firms like his.