Biggest Megaprojects Under Construction in 2024

[@MegaBuildsYT]

What's your opinion about these projects? Do you think the money is being spent wisely?👇 Thanks a lot for watching & supporting us 💛

[@realtalk-di-bawal-umaray]

US will get jealous again and again

[@GeorgeVenturi]

My opinion is that there are more mega projects and that you just focus the video mostly in projects in anglosaxon countries.

[@jaymehta0098]

All 15 projects have value for citizens. There ill always some opposition somewhere. On completion everybody is enjoying benefits of services provided. Planning can go bad, but ultimately it is in the interest of people/ citizens. India had lot of oppositions for Narmada Dam, now water is supplied to 4 states, people are better off then earlier time where water was not channelized. Islands in SCS lot of opposition, now what. China is getting stronger & firm grip in region.

[@RoadsFranconia]

I miss Fehmarnbelt-Tunnel trough the baltic sea connecting Denmark and Germany.

[@edyee1647]

@@GeorgeVenturi I disagree with your opinion because he also focuses on projects in a China, Japan, India, and Saudi Arabia, which are Asian countries as well. (BTW, I meant that he focuses on one project in each of the countries that I mentioned earlier.)

[@hungo7720]

The line city is the most delusional and extravagant project ever proposed and constructed. It is inconceivable how such idea might be viable in real life.

[@larsstougaard7097]

Glad to read a few months back that originally envisaged as being home to nine million people and costing $1.5 trillion to build, the city is now expected to reach just 2.4km and house around 300,000 people by 2030. Thank God someone came to their senses

[@manoz6194]

@@larsstougaard7097 coming to the sense would be deleting the project entirely

[@truthhurtsdontit]

Lmfao! Yeah people like yall said the same thing 100 years ago. And those people look like fools now. And so will yall.

[@vulpo]

@@larsstougaard7097 So instead of "the line," now it's just going to be "the hyphen."

[@zmblion]

The line seems more like a border wall but if they put a city in it then they can feel good about it all they really have to do is build one side and they accomplish what they are going after

[@TomPayne-q1y]

Hi from Sydney. The new Metro has already been a game changer. Not only for movement, but also urban growth. The new station's public art works are also incredible. Come visit.

[@russell-di8js]

nah thanks your alright.

[@moistschmeckles400]

been to sydney but didn't get the chance to use the metro :(

[@TheBenefitsofTakingVitamins]

Definitely going to ride the Metro when I visit next year! Sounds great!

[@leoni7649]

Biggest scientific experiment: 25b City that no one really wants: 1.5trillion Imagine how much humanity could achieve if they invested that 1.5t into something meaningful

[@gregoryturk1275]

💀💀💀🤡🤡🤡🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦

[@kaiserwhence2468]

Maybe you don't want cause you can't afford They can afford, thus they want

[@leoni7649]

@@kaiserwhence2468 they want because they like to show off. Maybe if I were born in the same conditions they did, I would indeed like to show off too.

[@vedangbarman6392]

biggest scientific experiment is ISS 100 billion dollar

[@KingFinnch]

@@kaiserwhence24681.5T is more than a decade of NASA's budget, you could easily build 10 international space stations for that amount, or an entire moonbase, or get people to mars

[@SenalM]

LOL, that shout-out to Sydney got me. I live

[@stevemurnane1892]

And it's now up and running! No bugs as such, with only one or two train units need adjustments made to the braking system due to a couple of over runs at a couple of stations. Easy fix with software changes. Sydenham to Bankstown is supposed to only take a year to modify.

[@justinmanser7525]

18:20 300,000 residents in Neom. That sounds like a very selective group of people living hundreds of miles away from anywhere. I'd like to know the position and nationalities of those who will live there. Seems almost like a Bond villain hideout to me.

[@wizardkingmudhhi4418]

idk where you got hundres of mile from anyone the line being built near a big town called sharma

[@justinmanser7525]

@@wizardkingmudhhi4418 Yeah, but get into The Kingdom in the first place...It's a diplomatic hub, sleezy elitists from Palestine, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and every member of the .01%. Who else can afford to go there. Yeah massive place Sharma...Area of Sharma, Dhiba, Saudi Arabia 2.918 km² Population 9,336 That is pretty much a tiny community per sq km.

[@Krish-vf8dy]

I think underworld 🕶️🕶️😎😎😎

[@JeremyMontejo16]

Top 16 Luxe hotel $80B Location Cagayan de Oro city Philippines Njjnnjhhbvv

[@bh5037]

a resort for rich people - with their own police and and and ... does remind me of Hollywood movie where people lived outside of the devastated earth ...

[@BlakeBeitzel]

Your videos are so well edited, narrated, and mixed, all on top of being interesting, informative content. Subbed!!

[@glennelliott708]

You should do a report on projects with the biggest overrun by $ and percentage. As example, Vancouver Sewage plant budget at $900 mil, now $4 billion and construction stopped as everyone suing each other

[@drumhack7722]

Ha you should see what’s happens in Australia. $4-$10B becomes $50b in the blink of an eye whilst it’s under construction.

[@emperor615]

🤣🤣🤣

[@JTA1961]

You misspelled sewering each other...😅

[@princechifundire727]

Canada is so corrupt. Nothing ever gets done on time.😅

[@mrbillsix]

Story time!

[@AkinyemiAkindoyin]

In my opinion I think the France fusion reactor to create a new source of energy is worth applauding.

[@flamingfrancis]

Indeed, absolutely amazing. In Australia we have enormous hours of sunshine, huge tidal changes in the north and roaring trade winds in the south. A change of Federal Government would see several fission reactors built...how smart is that?

[@scottrackley4457]

@@flamingfrancis If Aus could tap into the Southern Ocean current they'd be set for ever.

[@badsofficial]

25B seemed like a lot till you see there’s a dozen local train projects at multiples the cost. Seems like absolute pennies in the pursuit of unlimited clean energy

[@pudanielson1]

California high speed rail is honestly worth it because driving 2 hours into work and 2 hours back is soul crushing, and it only gets worse as more people move there.

[@rasta77-x7o]

Yeah i bet there is drink service, Japan has it. Get smashed on the way to work sounds fun. I mean you don't gotta drive right?

[@Marcyl13x]

I don't think you will want to take high speed rail to go to work. A high speed ticket is expensive.

[@havencat9337]

with self driving cars coming...and remote work being a thing.... i am not sure Cali rail like worth it r

[@Marcyl13x]

@@havencat9337 high speed rail is not used for commuting. It's used by tourists or business passengers. It is worth it.

[@sudeeptaghosh]

Need underground tunnels many of them

[@alexskribins8560]

Sydney Sider here! The new Metro is incredible! You definitely need to look up some videos of other KZbinrs riding it. The stations are Star Trek like with the empashsis on a modern and clean design. Phenomenal

[@jongZhao-e8q]

Do they have a line to the Covid camps though?

[@alexskribins8560]

@@jongZhao-e8q nah that’s Victoria (Melbourne)

[@Glenn-ei3xp]

Covid camps? That’s hilarious coming from a Chinese

[@russell-di8js]

u really telling us to go half way round the planet to view train lines? Other countries boast of places & then they mention how wicked the transport links are!

[@alexskribins8560]

@@russell-di8js you do you bro, it’s your life to lead not mine

[@seangriffin7803]

Any list that includes NEOM should also include a Mars City and artificial superintelligence - All vaporware that will not be built in the next decade.

[@johnshite4656]

@oFaisalo Experience. Talk is cheap.

[@just_a_person9583]

@@johnshite4656 It's quite literally almost done though?

[@johnshite4656]

@@just_a_person9583 If you say so. People sometimes say that about projects for years until finally they forget about it.

[@vladimir8035]

​@oFaisaloimagine basing your account on a pederast.

[@DavidKnowles0]

@@just_a_person9583 Even the Saudis might have realise it better to focus on NEOM smaller projects as a priority than to focus on The Line. Which might be why the Line component is being scaled down.

[@tian_obia]

$12 Billion for a 12 km extension of an existing railway that supposed to take over 10 years to complete. Thats California for you lmao

[@derrickmoses1507]

its a truly horrible place to live. before you argue with me, remember that they HAVE A SPECIFIC CLEANUP CREW TO CLEAN UP VOMIT, PISS, EXCREMENT AND NEEDLES OFF THE SIDEWALKS. WEEKLY! oh and the silly additional taxes everyone has to pay.

[@thecocktailian2091]

@@derrickmoses1507 I always heed the advice of people that dont live or are affected by the issues.

[@andersmartensson1851]

@@derrickmoses1507 Är det inte också instabil mark som ställer till det . En så lång bro till exempel i ett område som skakas av jordbävningar titt som tätt . Själv bor jag i Sverige vi har också massa mysko skatter och även skatt på skatt . Vad betalar du för Bensinen ? Vi i Sverige betalar ca 2$/Liter eller 9$/Gallon . Jag misstänker att en Amerikan skulle få hicka med sådan Olje- priser

[@matthewroche5377]

@@derrickmoses1507 You’re wrong and you obviously don’t live there. I don’t either but I’ve stayed in the bay area for extended periods of time for work. It’s a beautiful place filled with beautiful people.

[@Jaysqualityparts]

China cannot afford any projects anymore and other countries are all going broke do to illegal immigration.

[@tomsinsky5548]

The narrator/host is an outstanding speaker. I like that he speaks quickly with enthusiasm, yet doesn't sound fake. Does he (you?) read audiobooks?

[@schtepke]

... and cares to correctly pronounce foreign names!

[@philphildebeers2075]

@@schtepke He pronounces the projected Saudi city, Trojena, as if it were Spanish, not Arabic.

[@JonoTay88]

Watching from Sydney Aus. The Metro is a much needed step forward in the arduous task of improving our public transport system. Thumbs up from me :)

[@PhilipMurphy8Extra]

Always worth watching a good MegaBuilds video

[@Ash-vt7uu]

14:56 it’s clearly not over here, the Chinese hsr doesn’t use that “slightly hover above the track tech” it literally runs on rails, they don’t “slightly hover above the tracks” japan is building a maglev Ofc it hovers

[@TML0677]

you like sci-fi

[@lexacutable]

Putting Neom at the top is insane. That project will never come to fruition.

[@holdupits420]

They've already excavated

[@misterkunnyfunt]

the title of the video is "currently under construction." not "will be finished."

[@KyrilPG]

Very interesting! The Grand Paris Express is building 200km of new lines and extensions, which gives roughly 400 km of new tracks as the lines are dual tracks. More than 100km of tunnels had already been dug as of early 2024,, so a bit over 55% of the tunnels have been built already. All the extensions pertaining to the Grand Paris Express project have already opened to the public in June. So, line 14 is fully open from Saint-Denis Pleyel Northern transit hub to Orly airport in the South, since late June. There are 23 new stations and roughly 34 kilometers of new rail based transit that has opened this year alone in Paris : 13 new stations and about 22km of metro extension on lines 11 and 14. 3 giant new stations and 8km on RER extension on the West side if line E (the regional express heavy metro). 7 new stations and 3.5km of extension on the circular tram line T3b. Towards the end of next year, they'll open the first section of M15, the huge 75km long fully underground loop metro line circling Paris. M15 South section will have 16 stations and will be 35km long. The two remaining sections of M15 should open between 2029 and 2031. The BART 10km extension is outrageously expensive... That's about 1.22 billion dollars per kilometer of extension. About 5 to 6 times more expensive than a deep bored kilometer under Paris' very high urban density and pretty terrible soil conditions. It's also about 7.4 times the cost of Barcelona L9-L10 which is a deep single bore design built under a very densely built and populated urban fabric. Barcelona L9-L10 costs about 165 million per kilometer of deep single bore... (that's including the 52 stations in the average cost per kilometer for a 47.8km line that's 91% in deep tunnels). As for HS2, now that the Labour is in, maybe they'll restart the project and get either French or Spanish advisers to build their high-speed line efficiently and for a reasonable cost...

[@Quickshot0]

They didn't get any advisors for the development of the line at all? Though aside of that I can imagine the UK line cost increases are partially also just inflation over the several decades the project was planned. And then getting through London and the area around it being more expensive then initially expected, in part also because I heard it turned in to effectively a partial land redevelopment scheme for some segments. Like protecting some green areas. Admittedly those can be worth doing long term, but it no doubt helps balloon the overall costs. What also really stood out for me in this video on HS2 was how cancelling the extensions only apparently saved like 14 billion from the overall budget. And this even though those sections were pretty long themselves. Which also really gives the impression that particularly the London-Birmingham part was expensive. Though maybe I shouldn't underestimate their ability to some how have increased the cost of the rest of the line as well.

[@KyrilPG]

@@Quickshot0 It seems as if they precisely did every single "don't" of the good practices, a bit like New York and its subway building projects. For comparison, the LGV SEA, a 330 kilometer high-speed line between Tours and Bordeaux in France that was built in the mid 2010's, including several station overhauls, a multitude of environmental mitigation features, hundreds of bridges, over and underpass, plus the acquisition of a little over 200% of the required footprint for nature conservation, only cost 7.7 billion euros... It was 300 kilometers of new high-speed line, plus roughly 30 kilometers of branches and access ramps. So, more than a 10 folds difference in cost. The Grand Paris Express project mentioned in the video, costs roughly a third of the planned cost of HS2's first phases. That's for building 200km of new lines in Paris, of which 90% are built deep underground, with 68 new stations on the new lines, and several others on the extensions, and a good chunk of the new lines and stations built under very densely built and populated areas. London to Birmingham is equivalent in distance to the line length of the Grand Paris Express, but is only partially in tunnels whereas the GPE has a route length in deep tunnels equivalent to the distance between London and Birmingham as the crows fly. Inflation can only account for a marginal part of the cost ballooning. It just that the UK, like all other English-speaking developed countries, has serious issues with infrastructure developments. They've also used way too many consultants, and too much and not in the right positions, driving the cost to stratospheric levels. They really should have asked the French or Spanish to manage the project. They may have had advisers, but probably not in the right positions, and didn't have the in-house expertise to drive such a project. With a wholly inefficient approval hierarchy that probably micromanaged. If canceling the 2nd and 3rd phases only saved a small portion of the cost, then it further shows that they had real profound efficiency issues relating to consultants, to the design phase and the overall process. The Euston tunnel planned between Old Oaks Commons and Euston station is 7.2km long, reaching a depth of 50 meters at its deepest point. It is quite comparable to the new large 8km tunnel that was recently opened as part of a larger project to extend RER linr E over 55km to the West of Paris. The new RER E tunnel extension runs under the Western side of the hyperdense core of Paris and under the city's modern business district of La Défense. There are 3 major stations on this new tunnel, including a 6-platform station at Nanterre la Folie, a giant underground trapezoidal volume station with a walk-on glass roof on the surface at Porte Maillot, and the giant cavern of La Défense which was built using "mole techniques" through an underground parking garage because vertical access wasn't possible. They've built it under a functioning expo center and extended its foundations, while navigating between the foundations of neighboring skyscrapers. This project had major cost overruns due to issues with aquifers and building foundations, and yet, it only cost a bit over a couple billion euros. While, right now, the Euston tunnel is postponed and expected to cost about 5 billion pounds (5.8 billion euros), even though it runs under much less densely built areas and through least problematic soil. Everything is like this, the project has been badly managed from day one, going against every good practice of infrastructure development. With massive costs sunk into the design phase, and inefficient practices and processes.

[@Quickshot0]

@@KyrilPG Fair enough, this comment is actually a bit illuminating to me. I've been wondering for awhile why there were what seemed like quite large cost differences between some western countries. But I could never quite figure out where the differences might be. Hopefully they can do something about their inefficiencies in the future.

[@KyrilPG]

@@Quickshot0 The major divide is mainly between English-speaking and non-English-speaking countries. The "transit costs project" did an entire research about the cost difference for transit infrastructure, and found a real difference between English-speaking and non-English-speaking developed countries. There are many reasons for costs to be widely excessive in English-speaking developed countries, and they add to, and "compound", each other to a point where there can be a 10 fold difference in cost, with no apparent reason. There's a very interesting representation of this in a 3D volume, each and every inefficiency, or bad decision has a multiplying effect on the costs. Like how can a very basic LRT line in a low density urban environment in the US can cost as much as a full-fledged, fully automated underground metro line in a very densely built major European city. For example : two times the required number of consultants, and very in-house expertise to manage them, so they overdesign stations, then poor labor management uses far too many workers, inefficiently, etc. It's like every level or step of the project multiplies the cost by 1.3 or 1.5, which doesn't seem that much, but at the end you have a project that costs 10 times the equivalent in other countries.

[@Quickshot0]

@@KyrilPG Ouch.

[@davidk7262]

Don't worry fellow Brits. We will be number 1 on this list by the time HS2 gets done 🤣

[@ipg6772]

So you're telling us that Xiongan , an entire city of more than 5M people which also includes and HSR to Beijing cost less than LA-SFO HSR?!?!

[@z0phi3l]

I'll be really surprised if any of those projects ever complete

[@crazzykiphunter]

Do keep in mind that China has no labour laws and slave labour from North Korea. And well something called Tofu buildings.

[@stupidvideoman3187]

@@crazzykiphunterSource?

[@aosensei187]

@@crazzykiphunter Tofu buildings or not China is ahead a lot of countries when it comes to infrastructure , at the levels and time they complete projects in last 50 years is a feet that many countries are jealous of, give credits when it’s due, that tofu buildings sayings toss that out the window and open up your mind that a country like China is ahead of European countries and North America. They’re law helps and not hindering like USA where it takes decades to build something.

[@supa3ek]

@@crazzykiphunter SALTY hahahahahahaa

[@yggdrasil9039]

Sydney Metro is awesome, a completely different experience to the irregular heavy rail network. But the problem is that a lot of the lines are duplicating the existing network, and in terms of the grid of lines intersecting, they won't add much to connectivity. The Sydney rail/metro network, such as it is, is full of disconnections, lines that don't quite join, or stop at the end of spurs, or parallel lines that don't connect. Metro is a big improvement, but the network needs at least another 10 interconnecting lines outside of the CBD before you can really give up your car. 80% of people still drive to work for that reason.

[@roteschwert]

This video showed me just how ungodly expensive infrastructure projects in the US are

[@lours6993]

Ask yourself why. E.g. HSR : US cost is 5-10 x EU cost per KM/ Mile.

[@jacoblahr]

Your editing, visuals, and images are pretty good and easy to follow

[@djwhat5]

Yeah I MAY start believing Neom will actually be for real when Sindalah is finished and people are traveling there.

[@excellentdriver]

the opposition against high speed rail is actually so insane

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

Less Oil used -> Less money

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

Blame the oil industry

[@justaguy6216]

I like how Germany makes 1 massive underground station and 56 km of track that can take international high-speed trains and it's still cheaper than America building 1 commuter rail track, LMAO. What a joke.

[@christophsaviation2045]

And still everyone is complaining over here. Of course, every country has her own problems and her own upsides, but the grass isn't greener on the other side

[@danamanley2152]

An often overlooked benefit to these projects is hope! Hope that we will go to social improvement spending and not military conflict! Better to all be friends and break bread while visiting! One world! One people!

[@kayemoore]

Great unbiased summary - what a wonderfully, magnificent, diverse world we live in!

[@TML0677]

what a bozo u r

[@liamswansea311]

This is a reminder that the tories should never oversee projects like this again. What's happening with HS2 and Hinkley Point is just embarrassing. They've had 14 years to loosen planning laws which are massively increasing costs on these projects and failed.

[@michaelscott7166]

I work for a company that makes materials for HS2. Honestly I'm not surprised that costs are sky rocketing. They make demands no one else make that are bordering on ridiculous.

[@dezhar]

All those people who lost their homes and never had the option to get them back. Disgusting. They should have started North and worked South? Oh, and the nuclear powerplant is French owned...no profits for the Brits.

[@DavidKnowles0]

@@dezhar Cry me a river, most of them walked of 50% plus in profits for doing nothing and that just on the current market price, not on what they brought their house for.

[@sagepearce-higgins4751]

A large part of the cost of Hinkley Point is interest paid to borrow the money in extremely inefficient ways.

[@DavidKD2050]

😂. I love the inflection when saying, “and even capture rain water 😮”. Like it’s a revolution. A breakthrough in technology that will liberate mankind to reach new heights. For generations we captured rain water from our roofs in Australia. Our only water growing up came from the roof, and it’s still the same today for myself and a huge percentage of the population. Why the astonished 😲 tone?

[@laudermarauder]

It's probably safe to say that the rainwater capture is the part of the rail project that Birmingham residents are least excited about.

[@Alexftp]

Birmingham residents are too busy trying to not get stabbed 😂

[@eyesuckle]

I live in a very rainy city, Vancouver, Canada and every public rainwater capture plan that I've ever seen seems to be abandoned after construction is completed. I have no idea why, but something always seems to go wrong with these projects.

[@jackalcrackle]

Another massive one not on this list is the SRL in Melbourne Australia, construction started in 2022, is split into 4 phases, with the first, SRL airport being completed in 2030, and SRL East being completed in 2035, with the rest around 2056. It will be a 90km orbital railway line (partly in twin bore tunnels), and is now estimated to cost between $65 billion and $200 billion when fully completed.

[@monagustin6515]

Mind boggling mega projects. It's insane!

[@ffc1a28c7]

14:09 as someone who worked in 911 dispatch, this happens literally everywhere. We have software (heck, even google does to some extent) that optimizes all sorts of things.

[@Floedekage]

Exactly my thought. It sounds good and advanced and high-tech, but only to the large majority that has no knowledge of what happens behind the scenes.

[@zanmar776]

Love this video, very exciting mega projects coming up

[@RiceIsFreeAsABird]

Who also noticed the little detail that this video is 20:24 long? 😅

[@formercityboy9772]

these projects all sound extremely inspiring and ambitious. will be the biggest fun to come back in 5 years and check who achieved what. :)

[@juderamnarine5617]

You should do one on fusion power projects across the world. It’s would be an interesting comparison of ideas, projections and progress. Especially with the promise of ‘cheap’ energy that ‘saves’ the world.

[@drunkpuppy]

Forgot the Rail Baltica, that connects the 3 baltic countries to europe.. at first the total cost was estimated to be 10B, but now has risen up to 26B ;)

[@catairlines-peciarda]

It's worth it project

[@TesseractPleiadesOrion]

Stop with the super fast edits, let us see a photo of a construction site for more than a micro-second duh 🥺

[@doopedoog]

could you maybe post videos from some unpopular countries as well? would be nice to see their projects and how they are progressing for the better as well, rather than already popular mega projects from already known countries. a tip i would give is maybe a video about The Country of Georgias new mega project which is an 300km-400km+ highway project which includes multipal tunnels and bridges. thank you and absolutely love your videos!!

[@al-gv7mq]

same with RailBaltica which has a cost of $15bn but wasn't included

[@WestonRosch]

It’s amazing that the modern world is so interconnected that many different private sectors and governments work together from all around the world to complete these mega projects and colonize space. I’m not denying that we still have problems but the interconnectivity of humanity is amazing and mind blowing. I don’t know if this is weird but I love infrastructure and commerce 😊

[@KC-32]

Hello from Stuttgart!!

[@Billy_Prohens]

the hbf will probably be finished around the next century

[@Fishslayer2]

What is a stuttgart

[@Billy_Prohens]

@@Fishslayer2 its a place full of annoying Turkish looking ppl. With never ending constructions and snobby car enthusiasts. So basically madmax but better.

[@Lookwhat911]

I'm so impressed by the amount of research that went into this video. [13:10] The narrator clearly knows a lot about the topic, and he does a great job of explaining the different megaprojects. I highly recommend this video to anyone who is interested in learning more about these amazing projects.

[@Hakuna_Frittata]

$32,000 an inch to build a 6 mile subway to serve 54,000. Absolutely ridiculous.

[@horsesrlife5311]

per day baby

[@catairlines-peciarda]

It's america

[@Krunch2020]

It’s just inflation. That’s about $1.50 in 1970 dollars.

[@mrxman581]

It's not. You have no idea about the complexity. 54,000 a day is a lot of people considering the size of the line.

[@Hakuna_Frittata]

@@mrxman581 I'm a civil engineer, I think I have a pretty good handle on this.

[@SirShadows070]

2.40 hours doesnt equal 2 hours and 40 minutes, rather 2 hours and 24 minutes.

[@VermaRajinder]

Good to see India figure in this List !!!!

[@daredevil30000]

Because of bullet train project.

[@Jolbulka]

I love this video, it shows incompetence of managers to listen to an expert. 'We cam't do it on time' vs ''NONESENSE, we are already ahead of schedule, who wants some pizza?'

[@CIutchX]

The California Railway is the prime example of a much needed project that has been poorly planned.

[@arielmi78]

it is the car industry and oil lobbies... this railway will cost them both a ton of money. plus, it can create a precedent, imagine if other areas start building railways, car manufacturers will go nuts!

[@thethirdeve5089]

@@arielmi78 go back to sleep joe

[@ernad395]

@@thethirdeve5089 I feel like it wasnt such a far fetched thing to suggest tbh.

[@thecocktailian2091]

It was and is a necessary project. Unfortunately, politics, lobbies and daft citizenry muddied up the works.

[@arielmi78]

@@thethirdeve5089 it is ppl like you who cannot even have a civilized debate what is wrong about this world. have a nice life and hope your tinfoil hat is comfortable...

[@AtlasMap]

This video is fantastic! . The level of detail and insight into each project makes it a must-watch for anyone interested in the future of infrastructure and development. Great job!

[@carsofdubai]

I’m Australian living in Abu Dhabi. Could you please cover some of the projects on saadiyat island 🙏 some of the projects are so big I don’t even know what to think of them anymore. Or even Etihad rail

[@Xtracrispiii]

I'm from sydney and omg I love the metro. It's so efficient and it's been really cute to see the public get so excited about a train...

[@petelosuaniu]

Sydney Metro - It’s great. I travel on it but it often closes down on the weekends for ongoing track testing and building down the line in the parts still under construction. However, it’ll open to the CBD and to Sydenham (half the total kms in routes) on 4th August 2024.

[@johncoles6976]

Yes, the late evening and weekend closures (with bus replacements) are a pain but overall it is great.

[@stevemurnane1892]

Opening only delayed by two weeks.

[@philipk917]

Wow! just WOW! Enjoyed learning about all these international projects. Thank you! ❤🧡❤

[@neilbowers6956]

HS2 is such an embarrassment! All the money spent on it and they can't even get it to the original finish line of Euston Station. Instead it's going to a newly built station called Old Oak Station and as you've mentioned the Manchester and Leeds lines have been cancelled. That said, the engineering that is going into building this is something to behold and seeing the videos on KZbin of what they've achieved is pretty awesome to watch.

[@robertspencer2516]

HS2 is now a dead project. Ended by former PM Sunak shortly before he and the Tories where beaten by a landslide in the General Election. Good riddance to it. A huge disgracefully managed money pit. Considering the financial mess the Tories left us in it was impossible to fulfill. Still a lot of very rich friends of the Tories did make millions from it, at the general public and taxpayers expense. I imagine they are now inconsolable as their gravy train has dried up.

[@Birdanerd]

Whats even funnier is theyve actuyally burried the 2 TBMs at Old Oak as time capsules until the UK government finds the funds to complete the London end of the HS2 line...

[@Omar-kl3xp]

The fact that the uk doesn’t still have high speed railways is insane and embarrassing, there are literally lot many developing countries that already has high speed railways , st this point just ask Chinese companies , £89 billions just to build a railway from London to Birmingham is insane and they still can’t do it .

[@Birdanerd]

@@Omar-kl3xpThe sad truth is with the size of the UK and the existing network it’s just a waste of money

[@Omar-kl3xp]

@@Birdanerd it is really isn’t ,the UK just don’t know how to build them anymore ,they have stopped building railways for so long that they don’t even know how to do it ,they are not efficient with projects and so I can tell you that the price of the project will increase most likely to 100 billions pound by the time they build it to Birmingham from London , when it was supposed to be less then half of that to connect Manchester/Leeds to London. This is just an embarrassment,it would have been so much cheaper and faster if they hired a Japanese company or a Chinese company just like India is doing too and learn how they do it .

[@CyberStupidity]

The Sydney Metro line is great❤

[@GeorgeHolmes-j9v]

Make a video on their newest mega project proposal a 2 kilometer tall tower rise tower

[@anticarrrot]

Surprised SpaceX/Starship didn't get mentioned. Not as expensive as the others, but potentially more revolutionary than a faster train or bigger airport.

[@janlorenz123]

love from the Philippines

[@NoOneKnows10101]

Andito nanaman mga kababayan ko na kulang sa pansin

[@leedonghyeon7781]

I love watching this channel’s videos

[@awabaziz7029]

Can you make a video on c-pec or megaprojects in pakistan? Love ur vids , the quality keeps getting better!

[@MegaBuildsYT]

Thank you! We talked about it, but that was quite a long time ago. So might do some more research on that

[@awabaziz7029]

@MegaBuildsYT if u need help on some topics for that: 1) Air ambulance, the minister of punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif announced that they are working on air ambulance. 2) Pakistans crazy network of canals 3) Bahria town karachi Also can u pls do a vid on one of these topics within 2 months I wanna prove my freind that our country isn't doomed, but he doesn't believe me 💀

[@SkpalTube]

This can include the mega terror factories.

[@awabaziz7029]

@@SkpalTube least nationalist Indian be like:

[@SkpalTube]

@@awabaziz7029 Giga-terror factories with so many products starting with 'Al' have dominated the global market for so long. Aren't you a proud nationalist? I think you should cherish your contribution to the world.

[@JB-eg1tb]

Appreciate your efforts to say the names with awareness and care.

[@Joyprokash_]

I'm from India. I don't have any intention to disrespect the government of India. The Indian government is building high speed railways from Mumbai to Ahmedabad. On the other hand accident cases are increasing in indian normal railways. The Indian government is neglecting those cases. They are blaming each other for the accident cases but blaming isn't a solution. The government has to improve signals and crowds in railways. All I have to say to the government of India is we don't need GDP ranking all we need is sustainable development.

[@Musicjunction98]

I am an Indian too and I 100% agree with you and you have the right to criticize the government. After all, we are living in a democracy, not in a dictatorship.

[@infturbo]

certainly agree with you, upgrading current tracks will be better to improve safety and more signals.

[@aryaman05]

Investment for HSR comes from Japan at pretty much zero interest. Fact is, India needs a lot more such high speed connectivity.

[@Jin88866]

The new high speed line will be made of mostly of tunnels and viaducts, so you won't have people (or cows or elephants) crossing the tracks all the time. It'll be very safe.

[@Joyprokash_]

@@aryaman05 even though Japan didn't cost us any interest but we have to pay the debt. I'm not talking about investment or where the money comes from. I'm just saying we need existing railways development. We need our whole railways system covered by KAVACH. As for Japan their railways are one of the best in the whole world. Their normal railways are pin point on timing what about India. Here even express trains were delayed.

[@RenWangmao]

Been to Xiong'an 4 years ago, the train station is huge, but the city is full of dust, its a pain to go there now. They're calling it the project of the century

[@dyu999]

Nah, In Chinese it's called 'A huge plan of one thousand years' which equals to 10 centuries.

[@Marcyl13x]

Isn't it crazy that the USA is building 10km of track for 12.2B while Stuttgart is literally building a new massive central station and 50km of tracks for 11B? The answer of that is very simple: The USA has become so car centric, that they just forgot how to build rapid transit (rail, BRTs, metros, light rail, you name it). So they make the construction so inneficient, that prices inflate a hell of a ton.

[@wussrestbrook1200]

The Chinese also build 100km for 5 billion it’s called labor laws and too much bureaucracy

[@DivinesLegacy]

You don’t understand all the factors at play and don’t pretend you do.

[@Marcyl13x]

@@DivinesLegacy Explain, let's see if you do. Because Stuttgart is also a city and there's also sewers and infrastructure below.

[@Hakuna_Frittata]

​​@@DivinesLegacy Ah, yes - please lecture us on the virtues of spending $32,000 an inch to build a subway serving 54,000. Based on every single rider paying the current highest possible BART fare, it's only 43 years of daily operating to cover the construction cost alone.

[@MBBurchette]

It IS crazy, but has nothing to do with being “car-centric,” or losing the skills/expertise. The amount of red tape these projects generate make them an order of magnitude more expensive + requirements to only use unionized contractors (no corruption there of course). Some of that red tape has its benefits: I appreciate it when an environmental impact study confirms that a new bridge won’t kill all the sea turtles - but it’s not free.

[@toma3valentin]

This team got it! I like this channel! Very informative!!!!!!!

[@barryrobbins7694]

18:07 The Line is now The Hyphen.

[@xeronix9774]

😂😂😂

[@อาทิตย์พันธ์วงค์ษา-ต3ม]

This video is really impressive and the editing is on point! I enjoyed seeing all these megaprojects in progress. But honestly, I can't help but wonder if we’re overspending on these massive projects when there are so many urgent issues like housing and education that need funding too. Just seems a bit off balance to me.

[@shreejitmagar5336]

love from India❤❤

[@MamieLarkin-d1b]

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

[@jbtechcon7434]

#4 is made of tofu, #2 is already a fiasco, and #1 is the perfect illustration of why wealth & power should never be inherited.

[@HonourableHusband]

Point of order: Melbourne is Australia’s largest city, not Sydney. Sydney is Australia’s oldest city, however, and its geography and urban fabric pose unique challenges.

[@matthewdunn2034]

Sydney is technically larger in terms of area, although Melbourne is now more populated than Sydney

[@rayaneboulfaf6539]

you're talking about population, he was talking about the area

[@garystrahan4601]

​@matthewdunn2034 As you are wanting to be technical Brisbane is the largest of Australia's six capital cities by geographic area and the third largest in the world, occupying somewhere between 1,140 km2 or 15,826 km² depending on which areas are defined in the process. Melbourne is the largest Australian city by population And I'm also surprised he mentioned Sydney's $25 Billion metro as Australia's most expensive mega project considering the south eastern stage 1 section of Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop is already at $35 Billion and the whole project will be well over $200 billion before it is finished.

[@matthewdunn2034]

@@garystrahan4601 well I didn’t know that so thanks for the heads up! But technically, since you like it so much, I never said Sydney was the largest in Australia, technically.

[@stevemurnane1892]

But Sydney has more class. The only thing Melbourne (Mexico) is good for, is the excessive number of coffee shops.

[@noremfor]

As a Bay Area resident myself, it has been exciting seeing BART extending into Silicon Valley and San Jose. It's a long overdue extension BART has needed to reach the biggest city in the Bay Area, and I'm glad that it's finally happening now.

[@Aussie_gamer.]

Hello from Australia

[@MegaBuildsYT]

Hey :D

[@awabaziz7029]

Considering ur Australian, have u fought a kangaroo? 👀

[@Aussie_gamer.]

@@awabaziz7029 nah because the big ones can kill you

[@InterviewsXX]

Sydney

[@DavidEFarner]

Hey Australia! What’s down?

[@CapitanGreenhat]

All amazing projects. Another one worth covering if you don't already plan on it is the "great springs" trail project in texas. It will be a continuous greenbelt stretching from downtown Austin to downtown San Antonio

[@Lauramaxwel]

It was amazing

[@wombatp]

Number 1 priority of all countries should be energy independence. $1.5tn spent on a bonkers project like the line means you have been given absolutely way too much money.

[@gareth6326]

Countries are actually wanted to go the complete other way. With renewable energy, being independent is very inefficient because the generation of electricity is so variable. If all countries want to become independent then every country would have to build huge batteries to store all the energy (not a good idea)

[@florent72]

Thanks for this great video, and congrats on your French accent!

[@IgnusFlamebringer]

As someone who lives in an area affected by both the BART extension and the high speed rail, I think these are both fantastic projects. BART's main problem is that it does not extend to the largest population centers in the SF bay area, and completely misses the massive office parks where the tech giants do business. The high speed rail is another huge one I'm super excited about, as a few of the shots show just how insanely car dependent we are for traveling through what is essentially a long straight valley and some mountains. The land values of the coastal cities are so completely insane, and easing the choices for where to live if you want to work for FAANG companies would go a long way to easing the pressures that are driving so many of our neighbors out of their homes.

[@sgilani7294]

Amazing & wonderful Thank you - Gilani

[@Cameron9182]

From Sydney here. Feels like a scam to see how we can spend such a crazy amount and get so little. Comparing the other projects in this video, there were cheaper ones that laid so much more track. Sydney is known for having way overblown costs. Taxpaying citizens have every reason to be pissed off.

[@stevemurnane1892]

And has more toll roads than any other city in the world. And most expensive, as in dollars per kilometre.

[@TheSakuragihanimichi]

​@@stevemurnane1892 More expensive than Singapore?

[@TheSakuragihanimichi]

Nah, public transport is always worth it over roads.

[@tyjadah3169]

great video -- absolutely going to subscribe and enjoy every video. well put together & informative. kudos.

[@anshul6168]

Mumbai Metro could be here as well, it's easily 20 Billion USD + if you combine all the lines

[@sinfiltros8357]

Neom literally cooked my brain because its price

[@robertkerby2581]

I loved the "10 Most Expensive MegaProjects"! Well-done!

[@AchilleFanFan]

beau travail, bravo !

[@privateerburrows]

I'd be totally on board for Neom, except that I would have designed it from the ground up as a self-financing project, with only minimal initial investment. Not even the 2.4 kilometers in length said to be the reduced current goal; I would have started with half a kilometer, and then sell or lease space in order to pay for the next half kilometer. The only initial investment should be power, water, sewage and roads to connect the initial segment to other regions, a small airport, and a basic harbor; then let the private sector start investing in it, and people to move in. Workers in the project should get free temporary housing within a portion of space in the last previously finished segment. Also, allowing large commercial entities to custom-design parts of The Line to their taste, I think would be essential. Let a shopping mall brand buy, say, a 200 meter section of The Line yet to be constructed, and let them design it to their own taste and vision. Open the project to other parties, in other words; don't limit it to the vision of just one guy.

[@warriorfortruth976]

You thinking with sense and trying to be fair? This project makes no sense.

[@wunderlichdrive]

Fascinating projects. I wonder why the Norwegian Coast Highway project wasn't included. The €40+ billion project to build tunnels across several fjords will be a fascinating engineering feat.

[@priyadarshi8548]

ITER🎉

[@tenmenben197]

Just found this channel. Really good content! Keep it up. I've just subbed

[@deyeleywouououop1722]

The only truly megaproject of USA i can see here is the California High-Speed Railway.

[@TML0677]

All sci-fi, calm tities

[@rudihoffman2817]

Thanks for generating this well produced content. Sorry about all the cynicism in the comments.:)

[@nahblue]

0:11 jarring mirrored europe picture. Whichever way you rotate your viewpoint, it's not real :)

[@Ppaf420]

My cousin works in Kitimat! Didnt realize how big that project is.

[@OverDlordzoro]

please talk about the biggest stadium in the world being built in Morocco

[@larsstougaard7097]

Yes good idea, wild project Hassan II stadium 115.000 people and expected to be finished 2030 . I wonder what it is predicted to cost ??

[@PIG_ALLAh]

Biggest stadium will still be the Modi stadium Ahemdabad with 134,000 capacity.

[@larsstougaard7097]

@Gautam0245 as I understand it that stadium 🏟 is a cricket🏏 stadium, so that Hassan II may still be the largest football ⚽️ stadium in the world 🌎. Fascinating stuff

[@OverDlordzoro]

@@PIG_ALLAh I'm talking about football stadiums and also in North Korea that there have 150,000 Stadium most of the time used for celebrations

[@PIG_ALLAh]

@@OverDlordzoro 114,000 not 150,000 Check wiki

[@LukeJacques-h7e]

Great works

[@Theo-eq3ei]

My opinion: China is the most efficient when it comes to mega projects.

[@archimetropolis]

Because they know how to manage projects and money properly

[@daydreamer8662]

Get 'er done is not just a punch line

[@emjaydark2811]

Slave labour

[@joegoldman3065]

Great.Great job.A lot of these videos on mega projects are garbage.But your script was good.Your narration was great and your graphics were great

[@Brambrew]

Neom as a concept is completely idiotic. A straight line makes no logistic sense. How do you supply water and food to the millions you plan as residents? How do you move people from point A to point B? How does the city grow? How does the city manage waste? How will the city address high demand for the tiny sliver of beachfront property at the front? Will that cause economic and class inequality as the rich concentrate on one side of the line and the poor on the other? Will this just be Snowpiercer but on land and not moving? I have so many questions!

[@shafarrahchappell5214]

I’m with you

[@mrtom-a-hawk6732]

I think it makes transit a bit easier, that is, on paper, in reality travel times would probably be insane for the amount of people that it supports per unit length.

[@Heir_2D_Empire]

I had poked some other negative holes about this living environment. What will the people do if something like Covid or some other bad disease is contracted inside the Neom? What will happen if a fire breaks out? This place will be a death trap.

[@Feras507]

For an individual everything he needs will be in 5 minutes walk. Under the whole line there is a very high speed train or whatever it is that gets from end to end in 20 minutes. Believe me the problems you mentioned are not impossible to fix. At the right time every detail will be clear.

[@Mick-mi7zg]

@@Feras507lmao

[@amazingworks-1]

Nice video ❤

[@demjay]

High speed train in India? Even the slower ones are dangerous. Well, all the best.

[@razer282]

I like how you’re making an effort to actually pronounce the foreign names correctly 🙌