What is the reason behind the early initiation of the necessary projects?
It's all for the Olympics.  Nobody asked us but we have already started paying for it: rather than ask people to spend a gazillion dollars to pay for them our savvy bureaucrats just started doing as many of the necessary projects 20 years early.  When in doubt, the voting records of Rafael Espinoza and Paul Kashmann are a handy indicator of when we are getting screwed: if they don't like it then it probably sucks.