But even if the project is somehow resurrected, it will face infinitely stronger opposition.
Even if the project goes forward with that much money, that may not be the end of it.
Donors love people who are looking for the gender angle, even if the project is the artificial insemination of goats in the Andes mountains.
Even if the project ends in total disaster, they will insist that the euro didn't fail Europe, Europe failed the euro.
"Now we have this association and the produce store, and I can see that, even if the project leaves, we shall own that asset".
But there should be no rush to sign the contract, even if the project was contained in the Pentagon's budget plan signed on Monday by President Bush.
He writes that "even if the project takes decades to realize, it is a damning indictment of large-scale development in New York".
Felix T. Charney, a principal of Summit Development of South Norwalk, Conn., one of two companies behind the project, said that even if the project received town approval today, construction would not begin until the market showed signs of a comeback.
Even if the project itself never comes to fruition, though, the video deserves a life of its own, as a window into what our era promises and what it threatens to take away.
Some £88bn has already been spent, and even if the projected cost between now and 2049/50 does not change, the total PFI bill will be in excess of £310bn.
