@@MegaBuildsYTLakhta Center II is still in the proposal stage as of now As for the island, I’d build my house on it 1:1, to have the best of both worlds
Yes. They hire plenty of foreign construction workers and pay them lousy wages. The workers have to stay in squalid, overcrowded housing. Some money could be diverted from useless projects to improve the lives of the workers. No, they won't do that.
I don't know if you've already covered this in a previous video, but there is another nuclear power plant that was abandoned during construction. It's the Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant in South Carolina. James Cameron used the primary reactor containment vessel of this plant to film most of the scenes in his movie The Abyss. He filled the tank with millions of gallons of water, and the logistical challenges of the whole endeavor were quite intense for both the actors and 20th Century Fox.
@@goblincomic4522 oil dollars. Dubai does most of what it does to try and get some other sources of income, because one day the oil will run out. Mostly it's tourism and wealthy foreigners (come live on an island in Dubai!) they are investing in. But who is going to live on an island made of sand surrounded by salt water? Not a good setting for any *pleasant* vegetation.
I lived in the Gulf for 20 years and 20 years ago for those in the business [construction] it was common knowledge that they were sinking. Fact of life..........plenty of suckers out there and plenty of dirty money to be buried a.s.a.p so shed no tears. .
Can we send the UN there, along with their world-control plans called the "17 SDGs"? A planetary poorly-planned mega-project. Both built on sand, both will sink so might as well do it together.
Mirabel saved my life one afternoon. 3 mile long runways allowed a 747 over loaded toward the tail, to land HOT. Fast. Really fast. And with a three mile long runway, it could be done.
@@albertnielsen1154 Take off was in Brussels, Belgium. We barely made it off the ground. The wheels touched the grass berm beyond the end of the runway. the pilot kept the nose down and fought for speed. It was a bit disturbing to be looking into windows of 5 story apartment buildings as we gained speed. Laughing,, the good part for me,, we had friends that were forward in first class. I recognized all the signs of being tail heavy, (perhaps as many as a thousand flights for me at that point),, so,, the moment the seatbelt sign went off,, I picked up my stuff and my wife and moved into first class to sit with our friends. Pilot approved the move. Any mobile ballast toward the nose was good. Champagne and steak for the trip home.
Wonderpark Eurasia opened in 2019 so I'm surprised you didn't mention COVID as an obvious factor in its close as the world shut down the following year. No park could have survived that so soon after opening.
The park closed in February 2020, the first covid lockdowns started in March of the same year in Italy. The closure of the park pre-dates the pandemic.
@@sionsterowzzz mate, covid 19 started in.... 2019. In Europe in January 2020 there were already plenty of cases, at first in Italy and soon all over the place.
@@cherrychevys the poor man is too busy working two jobs to keep a roof over his head while the stupid man is on the internet defending tyrannical states' failed vanity megaprojects
Grew up in Montreal. Last time I used Mirabel Airport was 1999 for a winter trip to Cancun when I was 19. That Airport was HUGE! Most residents travelled there by car. Now; there is a light metro line (Reseau Express Metropolitan) being built half way in Mirabel. It should open late next year. If there is a business care; the line could extend there.
its ridiculous that all that $$$$ was spent for this magnificant huge airport, but not enough in that budget for just one train line to move the people from the city to it. Its like they paid for and built 99 % of the project, and refused that extra 1% that would have made it accessable.
NYC is likewise incapable of building decent transit to its own airports. We're either cramming into buses that crawl along with the rest of the traffice, coughing up the money for a taxi ride that can cost more than the airline ticket, or - if we're really, really determined to use mass transit - leaving for the airport four hours ahead of the scheduled departure.
Might I point out that all of these projects were imagined and planned by : MEN, who are the least likely to plan for the nitty gritty like plumbing and water etc. Great for imagining but just awful when it comes to the reality of usefulness.
The Millennium Dome in London is amazing and the roof top walk is absolutely amazing - It should never really be on this list of failures as its dormant period was only a hiccup 😎
Nowadays Mirabel Airport is used to move pretty much all dedicated cargo flights, and that does free up a lot of capacity and runway time at Dorval. But it was pretty stupid to abandon the rail link.
You would think they would maybe try to at least put rail link in later. Of course if this new airport could take over all the traffic from the old airport, then the old airport would probably close and you would have to fiqure out what to do with that. So maybe it is best this happen, since they are both being used and you are not having over crowding that might have happen if this new airport had to deal with all the airplane traffic. Looks like it worked itself out for the best.
Slight correction on Mirabel. Until the mid-70s transatlantic flights were almost all required to land @Montreal as the Eastern Gateway (as you noted) but it was also government policy not to allow more than a handful of grandfathered transatlantic flights @YYZ. This was to make Montreal a global aviation centre (IATA and the ICAO were both based there, it was also the home of Canadair/Bombardier/Pratt&Whitney & Rolls-Royce engines) as part of the rivalries between that city and Toronto. However political pressure built and Ottawa had to remove the restriction and allow unlimited (albeit bilateral) foreign airline access to YYZ. Since more travellers wanted to fly to Toronto, traffic to Montreal(and YMX) shifted southwestward. Mirabel is still home to the former Bombardier commercial aviation division, now occupied by Airbus and Mitsubishi. The design of the terminal was also obsolete by the time it opened as it relied on people movers (like those @Dulles) which could not really serve the new generation of jumbo jets. IAD had to adapt its original plans as this also impacted its ability to service jumbos, so built out several piers for regular style gating.
for all the monies these countries wasted there could have been a tiny home for every homeless person, free medical care around the world, kids fat with succulent fruits and nuts and fish.
@@emptiester no, its always survival of the fittest how things are and how they should be is always 2 different things. as if i needed that pointed out to me, as i clearly stated "could have been".
Now that is what I call a miracle .. The dome ""just there "" and miraculously turned into an entertainment complex 3 years later.. Nobody could believe their eyes.. Some people say it was the homeless who did it, at night, when nobody was looking ..
The thing is that the video shows the Super Brands Mall in Shanghai Luziajui district as the “turned around“ mall. I’d therefore question the credibility of the video.
Take a look at all the tofu dreg projects failing apart, ghost cities and business districts that are being abandoned as Xi pushes China back to the days of Mao.
Exploring the world's most useless megaprojects in this video is a captivating journey. It highlights the challenges and lessons learned from ambitious endeavors. The stories behind each project provide valuable insights. Well-presented and thought-provoking!
I think he meant half the day, like the day is 12 hours and the night is 12 hours. Some other languages has different words for the daytime, nightime, and the both combined
NO my lovely,s. It's just So F,IN AWESOME LIVING HERE, TIME FLYS BY, IT JUST FEELS LIKE IT. I wish the days was longer. UK BABY I FLIPPIN LOVE THIS PLACE:-) and yes I have travelled.
Man I'm so glad you made this video I love watching your videos especially your 10 top projects in europe video that was gold but all I can say is I've been waiting for another video
I also live near a Nuclear Power Plant, which was built next to an active Fault Line and next to an active Volcano. The Nuclear Power Plant was decomissioned after only 11 Months of commercial operation when a Court decided to shut it down because it didn´t even had a valid construction permit.
The ineptness of that whole venture is utterly mind boggling. Why in the ever lovin' would ANYONE build a nuclear plant on a major faultline or volcano? Although I know that quite a few in California are precariously located in similar fashion. And yet people in the US still crow that their country is the best in the world. Clueless.......
It comes down to the same thing as everywhere else - money. The contractors don't care what happens after their part of the project is completed. The politicians involved saw a gain, one way or another, to help them remain in office. Or, like in Dubai and China, it was a prestige thing -at least to the politicians. Boondoggles have occurred throughout history. Some are even enshrined in religious mythology. Because of the above, that is never going to change. @@sadee1287
@@J_UNNyou did watch it right? There were risks too high, it's not worth it. Haha. The volcano and faultline would have the biggest problem. Any sane leader after the Dictator made a good decision to retain it closed, ask his son.
@@KnightDarkness-bv1eiYes, unfortunately I believe a number of corporate mistakes were made that contributed to the Fukushima problems, they ignored advices regarding the tsunami walls and cooling pumps that should have been above ground.
@@evil17And you think "businessmen" learn from each previous mistake? 😵💫.They are spending billions to elect a criminal who vows to cut red tape aka safety regulations.
@@AdLockhorst-bf8pz Don't forget the sand engine (zandmotor) to combat beach erosion. And while we are at it, the Wieringermeerpolder predates the Afsluitdijk (it was a pre-project) and is also originally sea bottom.
It would be interesting if you did a video on expensive and/or useless public transit projects such as the Eglinton LRT in Toronto. It's been under construction since 2011, and was slated to open as early as 2020, but we're heading into 2024 and the managers have no set opening date, and the project has been a traffic nightmare, not to mention the project is well over budget.
I think it's very interesting to hear about Megaprojects. With the information provided, we will know more about this matter that we did not know before. With the explanation given, we gain quite in-depth insight and knowledge. This is very useful. I'm waiting for the next update, sir.
"hey maybe we should establish some public transportation that'll improve everyone's lives and also save this multi billion dollar taxpayer funded airport?" " Public WHAT?! nah let's just abandon it that sounds impossible"
One important correction about the dates on the Bataan Nuclear plant... it was supposed to be operational in the mid 80s but after the 1986 EDSA revolution, the Cory govt scrapped it but still paid the loan for the project instead of using her clout at the time to cancel the loan as well. The Mt Pinatubo volcano erupted in 1992, and no one knew it was actually a volcano because it was a solid mountain. It erupted after 600 yrs. It was never a factor in the justification of the nuclear power plant. In fact, even the subic and Clark US bases were clueless about the volcano until they saw the underground movements. They knew it was going to erupt and hurriedly left with all their hardware, leaving the country to fend for itself after the destruction the volcano also created every year after each storm.
90% or more of nuclear power accidents are actually caused by the coolant water. Or rather, the lack of it. Meltdowns are specifically when the reactor rods get too hot and melt out of the containment center because there wasn't enough water, usually due to a pipe bursting or damage to the pumps.
@@lr8763 every system controlling risky activity has human error in consideration, reason why there are a lot of redundancy. Are you afraid to fly? Do you have any dan holding water near you home? Do you know when its last inspection happened? Do you know how many poisonous chemical plants are around your home and how dangerous they are to life around you?
Nuclear Power rocks. It’s as ferrasbras says. I hate hearing the uninformed public speak on nuclear power and all its overblown/misinformed dangers. So says an American nuclear engineer…..🇺🇸
You know, one of the most annoying things is the absolutely *abysmal level of ignorance* of _any single aspect of modern nuclear power_ constantly exhibited by almost anyone "reporting" on nuclear power plants. Regardless of the issues which may have existed with the Bataan plant, and any misled social concerns as a result of Chernobyl, there is a single, simple, highly relevant fact which *no one in the merdia ever ever ever bothers to mention:* The accident at Chernobyl not only can't happen at Western plants, it's practically never been even _possible_ at Western nuclear power plants -- and by "Western", I mean "anywhere outside the former Soviet Union". It has to do with *plant design*. The type of design used in Western nuclear plants, historically (newer designs are quite a bit more advanced -- all current plants are based in designs essentially created in the 1960s -- we've learned a bit since then), have almost all been what are called "PWR"s -- "Pressurized Water Reactors". The Chernobyl design, "GMR"s, or "Graphite Moderated Reactors", is not dissimilar to the absolute very first nuclear pile built in the early 40s in Chicago by Enrico Fermi. It is singularly significant to note that there were less than a dozen GMRs ever built in the West, and even there, every single one of those was out of operation by the mid 1970s. The GMR design was considered substantially more dangerous -- to people with the 1950s and 60s attitude towards nuclear plants -- than the PWR, such that few were ever built. Now, lets see why the GMR is much more dangerous. A PWR basically uses WATER to "moderate", or help control, the nuclear reaction that is being used -- said water is kept under pressure, hence "pressurized" which allows it to get much hotter than water usually gets and remains "water" vs. "steam". The temperature of the water in the pressure jacket of a PWR gets up above 600° F., well above the normal boiling point of water. In general, there can be no fire or other significant release of energy -- the worst that can *really* happen is a containment failure which causes a release of steam -- likely radioactive steam, but still, steam only. A GMR, however, is a "Graphite" moderate reactor. Graphite. Pencil lead. **CHARCOAL.** Yes, we're going to take this source of intense heat, and _surround it with _*_charcoal briquettes!!_* Can ya see how this MIGHT be a bit more stupid and dangerous than STEAM? Because that's what happened at Chernobyl -- it got really really hot, and the GRAPHITE/Charcoal caught FIRE, and burned for days, releasing radioactive particulates into a huge cloud which spread across a significant part of Europe in non-trivial amounts. The two have nothing to do with one another, don't reflect anything upon one another, and this point REALLY should be part of any discussion of nuclear power -- even if it's only in passing. P.S., the second worst nuclear incident (it did not involve nuclear power) was ALSO in the Soviet Union, at a place called Kyshtym. I'll let anyone interested look that up. It's yet another example of abysmal and amazing sloppiness and incompetence in the USSR. ===== As to "holding the referendum _before_ building a project", how about **educating the public about actual nuclear power plants** sufficiently that *_fear mongering imbeciles_* don't cause them to make stupid, poor decisions about said projects? SMH.
You have an excellent speaking voice. Very enjoyable to listen to your narratives - wonderful control of your timbre and the emotional emphasis you can and do bring to bear to illustrate your points and drive them home without over doing!
I remember when Wonderland Eurasia was announced. It was called "AnkaPark" back then. I really hope it opens one day. Another abandoned/never-opened amusement park of note is Hot-Go Dreamworld in China. They built two massive B&M coasters, which are known to be the most reliable and expensive roller coasters in the world. They have sat abandoned since 2015.
Both of the nuclear power plants mentioned should have started up! The danger from nuclear power is vastly exaggerated! Yes, you don't want to eat nuclear fuel, just like thousands of other products like gasoline and cleaning chemicals that we use every and don't worry about but we probably should more than we do. But too many people get hysterical we they hear the word nuclear!
A massive abandoned amusement park would be a great location for so many movies and series to film from. I'd love to see a proper full-budget live action Ace Lightning... Just saying.
I want your opinion on multi-modal corridors across countries like BRI and IMEC. Since they are huge megaprojects with hundreds of billions spent on it. Also, I would like a video on more of India's megaprojects.
Hey, we made a video about the silk road, but we could check out the IMEC. We also made a Top 10 India megaprojects video, but i'm sure we will feature more projects in the future
@@MegaBuildsYT I loved both of the videos but as you can see in recent news there is fallout happening in BRI with Italy considering leaving the project many CPEC corridor projects not getting completed on time, along with a mind-boggling growing debt for China and it not getting enough returns of it as well. Also, your videos of India's megaprojects were excellent. But I think you should include many other BIGGER projects in your future videos. Also, this is just a suggestion as a viewer and a loyal subscriber.❤Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMMENTING BACK. It means a lot
The question is a odd one because it’s literally thousands of projects that are a wide combat of needed energy and telecommunications infrastructure, to high ways to nowhere and observations decks not needed. All on the host countries dime of course.
Lagos is actually spoken as if it has a y after the a and arguably a double s to end i.e. Laygoss 5:04 Apparently the isolation is so unusual that it's proving quite popular.
Well, I'm the one who From the city of dongguan.And I can tell you that the Vacancy issue of the south China mall is not because of the economy condition of the city of Dongguan. Dongguan is actually quite a wealthy city in China.It is one of the top 20 city in China with a population over 10 million. The vacancy of the south China mall mainly because all those shops are sold by the developer to individual buyers so that they cannot lease the premises on their will. Also, it sits on a less developed surburb of the city by the time when it was opened.
Too much time, too much boredom too much money, not enough foresight and brains.A wonderful combination of grandiosity and high risk of failure. Oh, dear!!! Who would have thought?
Also, every expert said right at the beginning, in the planning phase, that those islands would be impossible to keep above water for very long. But the UAE thought money can beat everything - even physics...
UAE achieved their goal in bring in tourism with the projected started when they will trying t get international attention. They are now the third ost visited city on earth last year.
I was the involved with control systems for a nuclear plant to be built by TVA in Bellefonte, Alabama. I know there were lots of issues with my company's systems and I heard they might not have been addressed. I'm glad to see the plant has been cancelled.
Just in case you’re curious, Montreals, Dorval airport in Montreal, Canada was renamed on the 01 of January 2004 in honour of our former Prime Minister ‘Pierre Elliot Trudeau’, who was the father of our current Prime Minister ‘Justin Trudeau’. I find your videos both highly informative and enjoyable.
Get your facts straight. I am from Montreal and the main role of the airport today is cargo flights, but it is also home to MEDEVAC and general aviation flights. It is a manufacturing base for Bombardier Aerospace and Airbus Canada, where final assembly of regional jet (CRJ700, CRJ900 and CRJ1000) aircraft and the Airbus A220 (formerly Bombardier CSeries) is conducted. It's where most private jets land and is also a base for helicopter. Now, there is also a go-cart track.
I agree, I think Top_Luxury's sorry for what they didn't mention from their side about it, but it is great that people are pointing out stuff to make the facts in these channels much more better and true!
@@mikatu Wait, so, they are building airplanes there. Airplanes use the runways to take off and land and it's useless??? But there are literally airplanes and people using it. People use guns as hammers (Not the way they were intended to be used) but it doesn't make guns useless. Ha ha ha.
Some of these dredgings buried lots of corals and marine living creatures. We never see them but men's ambition just discarded their presence there. So sad.
You've got to hand it to the politicians in Nigeria. Create a massive 'dud' project and siphon off billions of $ while it is being constructed. Then after it is declared a dud create further opportunities for corruption.
''skyscrapers are a huge sink of resources right? so lets build 1 ginormous 170 KILOMETERS long skyscraper in the middle of the most resource poor environment on earth what could POSSIBLY go wrong?" oops scrap that it's only 0.8 km long now
I have never seen your videos, just wanted to say, you have a great voice, do,you auto tone? Or is that your natural,voice? Also the video was well produced, fast paced and informative no lollygagging. I appreciate you.
Eko atlantic caused a lot of floods in Lagos. the government was aware of the possible consequences yet they ignored it. who are they building it for? the average citizen cannot afford such expensive luxury. it will end up completely useless
@@cherrychevys When religion becomes law, people lose their freedom by allowing a chosen few to decide what is moral and what is not. Morality police are always bad. When you drink the Kool aid of moral laws over freedom, Satan owns you.
@@cherrychevys Burgas are the laws of the ignorant. If you follow these religious laws, that will be your fate when you pass on, for eternity. Follow the God of forgiveness and understanding.
I’m waiting for The Line in Saudi Arabia to be abandoned at some point. It’s gotta be the most dystopian place on earth and who wants to go live in the middle of the desert in a place you can’t leave? It’s a mile long prison.
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Whats your opinion about these projects? If you owned an artificial island, what would you build on it?😲👇
Top Luxury
Will you record an episode about a 703-meter building being built in Russia?
Name Lakhta Center II
is it actually being built or a proposal at the moment?
@@MegaBuildsYTLakhta Center II is still in the proposal stage as of now
As for the island, I’d build my house on it 1:1, to have the best of both worlds
If i had an artificial island that's where i'd put my lair.
Dubai and useless megaprojects go hand in hand.
Yes. They hire plenty of foreign construction workers and pay them lousy wages. The workers have to stay in squalid, overcrowded housing. Some money could be diverted from useless projects to improve the lives of the workers. No, they won't do that.
Not really useless tho. It's the best money laundry scheme
Dubai itself is a useless mindless mega project.
Way more money than intelligence.
Fools with unrealistic dreams and unlimited money also go hand in hand. But, I’m sure they’ll learn from their lessons.
Mega projects = Money Laundering
Corporate money laundering
Touch grass. You watch too much TV
@@charliekezza same difference
How is someone profiting from pouring billions of dollars into failed projects with no use of??
I don't know if you've already covered this in a previous video, but there is another nuclear power plant that was abandoned during construction. It's the Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant in South Carolina. James Cameron used the primary reactor containment vessel of this plant to film most of the scenes in his movie The Abyss. He filled the tank with millions of gallons of water, and the logistical challenges of the whole endeavor were quite intense for both the actors and 20th Century Fox.
Actually, they did!
I live right by it iv seen it. its huge.
This is true. It was located near Gaffney, South Carolina near my sister's house.
It's since been demolished.
@@edyoung6756 Last time I was by Monticello it was still there, maby not.
So how many 100s of thousands did that water cost?
The Dubai islands were great ...
... for the Dutch company that made the islands anyway 😁👍
Wonder they get paid full or I.O.U
@@goblincomic4522 oil dollars. Dubai does most of what it does to try and get some other sources of income, because one day the oil will run out.
Mostly it's tourism and wealthy foreigners (come live on an island in Dubai!) they are investing in.
But who is going to live on an island made of sand surrounded by salt water? Not a good setting for any *pleasant* vegetation.
and for the corrupt politicians who scored millions, if not billions, of $$$
I lived in the Gulf for 20 years and 20 years ago for those in the business [construction] it was common knowledge that they were sinking. Fact of life..........plenty of suckers out there and plenty of dirty money to be buried a.s.a.p so shed no tears. .
Very poor engineering. The man-made islands off Prudhoe Bay in Alaska have been there for about 50 years.
Wise man said don’t build ur castle on sand son , one should really listen to that advice 😂
That's a Jimi Hendrix song.
Has to be built into the bedrock so they won't sink and lean becoming unlevel. We're they really that stupid?
That was sage advice from Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
Can we send the UN there, along with their world-control plans called the "17 SDGs"? A planetary poorly-planned mega-project.
Both built on sand, both will sink so might as well do it together.
Long Island is a giant pile of sand. 8 million people are doing ok there, except the ones right on the ocean.
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Mirabel saved my life one afternoon. 3 mile long runways allowed a 747 over loaded toward the tail, to land HOT. Fast. Really fast. And with a three mile long runway, it could be done.
The GTA could use a Mirabel style airport. Pearson is getting way too overloaded.
Not 3 miles, 3 kms
@@odzergaming Good call. Both of us are off. designed and built to English measure 12,000 feet , 3,658m
Hm. Hadn't it used any of it's fuel, the main load at take-off?
@@albertnielsen1154 Take off was in Brussels, Belgium. We barely made it off the ground. The wheels touched the grass berm beyond the end of the runway. the pilot kept the nose down and fought for speed. It was a bit disturbing to be looking into windows of 5 story apartment buildings as we gained speed. Laughing,, the good part for me,, we had friends that were forward in first class. I recognized all the signs of being tail heavy, (perhaps as many as a thousand flights for me at that point),, so,, the moment the seatbelt sign went off,, I picked up my stuff and my wife and moved into first class to sit with our friends. Pilot approved the move. Any mobile ballast toward the nose was good. Champagne and steak for the trip home.
Wonderpark Eurasia opened in 2019 so I'm surprised you didn't mention COVID as an obvious factor in its close as the world shut down the following year. No park could have survived that so soon after opening.
The park closed in February 2020, the first covid lockdowns started in March of the same year in Italy. The closure of the park pre-dates the pandemic.
@@sionsterowzzzu rekt him wit faxxx 📠📠📠📠📠📠📠 📜📜📜📜📜📜
@@sionsterowzzz mate, covid 19 started in.... 2019. In Europe in January 2020 there were already plenty of cases, at first in Italy and soon all over the place.
@@sionsterowzzz, No, the first case occurred in Germany, then it spread to Italy more massively
@@mikatu, No, the first case occurred in Germany, then it spread to Italy more massively
I enjoy learning of any catastrophic failure that takes attention away from the fact that I myself, am a catastrophic failure 😊
People who think they are perfect are usually the failures. Those of us that look at ourselves and recognize our failures are the salt of the earth.
No chance, you are deffo not, you managed to beat off 200 million other sperms and beat them to that egg, well done you're a winner
your success or failure is too puny to be catastrophic. Don't flatter yourself.
A wise man builds on rock. A foolish man builds on sand.
A poor man doesn't build, he complains and watches from the sideline.
and a complete idiot builds on water :P
@@cherrychevys the poor man is too busy working two jobs to keep a roof over his head
while the stupid man is on the internet defending tyrannical states' failed vanity megaprojects
Egypt. laughs in eternal
Jesus said something about building on sand.
The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant should have been the Bataan Geothermal Power Plant instead, since the area is perfect for that type of power plant.
Grew up in Montreal. Last time I used Mirabel Airport was 1999 for a winter trip to Cancun when I was 19. That Airport was HUGE! Most residents travelled there by car. Now; there is a light metro line (Reseau Express Metropolitan) being built half way in Mirabel. It should open late next year. If there is a business care; the line could extend there.
No need. The terminal building has been demolished. Mirabel is now used by AirBus and Bombardier for test flight of their aircraft.
Yeah, although Longeuil airport is opening up to passenger travel.
its ridiculous that all that $$$$ was spent for this magnificant huge airport, but not enough in that budget for just one train line to move the people from the city to it. Its like they paid for and built 99 % of the project, and refused that extra 1% that would have made it accessable.
Then surely the reason is more complicated than a 2min RUclips clip tells you :)
NYC is likewise incapable of building decent transit to its own airports. We're either cramming into buses that crawl along with the rest of the traffice, coughing up the money for a taxi ride that can cost more than the airline ticket, or - if we're really, really determined to use mass transit - leaving for the airport four hours ahead of the scheduled departure.
Might I point out that all of these projects were imagined and planned by : MEN, who are the least likely to plan for the nitty gritty like plumbing and water etc. Great for imagining but just awful when it comes to the reality of usefulness.
That's good old Canadian planning.
Even Sydneys new airport has a rail link, it hasnt even opened yet, fully driverless too
The Millennium Dome in London is amazing and the roof top walk is absolutely amazing - It should never really be on this list of failures as its dormant period was only a hiccup 😎
It’s the busiest, most popular music venue in the world. Hardly a failure
Nowadays Mirabel Airport is used to move pretty much all dedicated cargo flights, and that does free up a lot of capacity and runway time at Dorval. But it was pretty stupid to abandon the rail link.
Then I don't consider it a total failure. It is still in use unlike an airport in Germany that never saw a single airplane or passenger...
You would think they would maybe try to at least put rail link in later. Of course if this new airport could take over all the traffic from the old airport, then the old airport would probably close and you would have to fiqure out what to do with that. So maybe it is best this happen, since they are both being used and you are not having over crowding that might have happen if this new airport had to deal with all the airplane traffic. Looks like it worked itself out for the best.
Proving money can't buy intelligence
not even common sense for that matter
Slight correction on Mirabel. Until the mid-70s transatlantic flights were almost all required to land @Montreal as the Eastern Gateway (as you noted) but it was also government policy not to allow more than a handful of grandfathered transatlantic flights @YYZ. This was to make Montreal a global aviation centre (IATA and the ICAO were both based there, it was also the home of Canadair/Bombardier/Pratt&Whitney & Rolls-Royce engines) as part of the rivalries between that city and Toronto. However political pressure built and Ottawa had to remove the restriction and allow unlimited (albeit bilateral) foreign airline access to YYZ. Since more travellers wanted to fly to Toronto, traffic to Montreal(and YMX) shifted southwestward. Mirabel is still home to the former Bombardier commercial aviation division, now occupied by Airbus and Mitsubishi.
The design of the terminal was also obsolete by the time it opened as it relied on people movers (like those @Dulles) which could not really serve the new generation of jumbo jets. IAD had to adapt its original plans as this also impacted its ability to service jumbos, so built out several piers for regular style gating.
for all the monies these countries wasted there could have been a tiny home for every homeless person, free medical care around the world, kids fat with succulent fruits and nuts and fish.
Thats not even an approximation of how things work within this universe.
@@emptiester no, its always survival of the fittest how things are and how they should be is always 2 different things. as if i needed that pointed out to me, as i clearly stated "could have been".
@@suzizuki and as i said it never could have been an never will be. nothing you said is meaningful or sensible.
@@suzizuki wOnT sOmEBody ThiNk of tHe HOmELEss!!!
If wishes were horses we'd be hip-deep in manure.
Now that is what I call a miracle ..
The dome ""just there "" and miraculously turned into an entertainment complex 3 years later..
Nobody could believe their eyes..
Some people say it was the homeless who did it, at night, when nobody was looking ..
I remember hearing a lot of news about the ghost mall in China. So glad to see that they turned it around!
The thing is that the video shows the Super Brands Mall in Shanghai Luziajui district as the “turned around“ mall. I’d therefore question the credibility of the video.
Nope, it's a ghost mall again.
But I suppose the same is to be said for the rest of shanghai.
Take a look at all the tofu dreg projects failing apart, ghost cities and business districts that are being abandoned as Xi pushes China back to the days of Mao.
Exploring the world's most useless megaprojects in this video is a captivating journey. It highlights the challenges and lessons learned from ambitious endeavors. The stories behind each project provide valuable insights. Well-presented and thought-provoking!
Lessons learned? You reckon?
I'd add Trump's border wall.
7:29 12 hours in a day? Are days in the UK faster then in the rest of the world?
lol yeah probably misspoke and meant 12 hours on the clockface
I think he meant half the day, like the day is 12 hours and the night is 12 hours. Some other languages has different words for the daytime, nightime, and the both combined
Omg I scrolled down to find this comment after hearing that! Lol
I can confirm that the UK has 24 hours not 12 the same as everywhere else
NO my lovely,s. It's just So F,IN AWESOME LIVING HERE, TIME FLYS BY, IT JUST FEELS LIKE IT. I wish the days was longer. UK BABY I FLIPPIN LOVE THIS PLACE:-) and yes I have travelled.
Man I'm so glad you made this video I love watching your videos especially your 10 top projects in europe video that was gold but all I can say is I've been waiting for another video
I also live near a Nuclear Power Plant, which was built next to an active Fault Line and next to an active Volcano. The Nuclear Power Plant was decomissioned after only 11 Months of commercial operation when a Court decided to shut it down because it didn´t even had a valid construction permit.
The ineptness of that whole venture is utterly mind boggling. Why in the ever lovin' would ANYONE build a nuclear plant on a major faultline or volcano? Although I know that quite a few in California are precariously located in similar fashion.
And yet people in the US still crow that their country is the best in the world. Clueless.......
It comes down to the same thing as everywhere else - money. The contractors don't care what happens after their part of the project is completed. The politicians involved saw a gain, one way or another, to help them remain in office. Or, like in Dubai and China, it was a prestige thing -at least to the politicians.
Boondoggles have occurred throughout history. Some are even enshrined in religious mythology. Because of the above, that is never going to change.
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The Php goverment goin ahead with Bataan after knowing about the volcano and the faultline was the craziest thing ever.
There's a nuclear power plant in No Virginia built on a fault line
no. it was politically motivated. so sad we had an incompetent government after Marcos
@@J_UNNyou did watch it right? There were risks too high, it's not worth it. Haha. The volcano and faultline would have the biggest problem. Any sane leader after the Dictator made a good decision to retain it closed, ask his son.
It is a shame that these megaprojects have not worked and have caused many losses in these countries.
including lives of foreign workers
it's a shame they were conceptualized by tyrannical higher ups
and NO one down the the whole damn project could've speak up against the insanity
Man-made islands in the desert?
Skiing in the desert?
More money than senses.
desert is actually cold depending on the region. And skiing is extremel7 popular and profitable.
World Leaders Be Like: turn on creative mode, we finna build!
Imagine not knowing that the millennium didn't start until 2001. The dome was a year early.
At last. Truth.
What can you do when the world population cannot count and is mystified by round numbers?
Nuclear is still one of the safest forms of energy available, despite what happened at Chernobyl and despite what the media tells us.
It is safe to use but although an earthquake as we saw in Japan in 2011 did cause a major problem for the nuclear power plant there.
@@KnightDarkness-bv1eiYes, unfortunately I believe a number of corporate mistakes were made that contributed to the Fukushima problems, they ignored advices regarding the tsunami walls and cooling pumps that should have been above ground.
Safest if humans were perfect. But as we've seen sh*t happens. Why go overboard just to make steam?
Hanford. You want the waste in your backyard?
@@evil17And you think "businessmen" learn from each previous mistake? 😵💫.They are spending billions to elect a criminal who vows to cut red tape aka safety regulations.
It boggles the mind to see how many people think they can outsmart the ocean. The ocean isn't going anywhere! We are!
As King Canute proved. Mythologically speaking.
Maasvlakte and Maasvlakte II - not to mention Flevoland - are Dutch "ocean, *move!"* projects that prove you wrong.
@@AdLockhorst-bf8pz Don't forget the sand engine (zandmotor) to combat beach erosion. And while we are at it, the Wieringermeerpolder predates the Afsluitdijk (it was a pre-project) and is also originally sea bottom.
@@AdLockhorst-bf8pz that the exception that makes the rule son
not the rule
Men used to buy expensive cars to compensate for lacking in certain body parts. This is taking it to another level.
It would be interesting if you did a video on expensive and/or useless public transit projects such as the Eglinton LRT in Toronto. It's been under construction since 2011, and was slated to open as early as 2020, but we're heading into 2024 and the managers have no set opening date, and the project has been a traffic nightmare, not to mention the project is well over budget.
It’s destroyed the streetscape and the ability to get around. It’s horrible.
Sounds like the horrible story of the german railroad underground central station for Stuttgart...
It's stupid to make islands when you have a large unused desert
Yup. Easier to dig a palm-shaped canal and build houses next to that.
They'd still be close to the ocean AND have no-wake restrictions regardless.
Not well thought out. The durch made land because they had none, not for the hell of it.
Megalomania!
@@alexjager4517 Not quite none, just not enough (and no interest in having a weaponized argument with the neighbours).
if only they've listened to the music that goes like "the oceon is a desert with its life underground"
Build on the rock not upon the sand, l learnt that in Sunday school 😂😂😂❤
I think it's very interesting to hear about Megaprojects. With the information provided, we will know more about this matter that we did not know before. With the explanation given, we gain quite in-depth insight and knowledge. This is very useful. I'm waiting for the next update, sir.
Great video as always
"hey maybe we should establish some public transportation that'll improve everyone's lives and also save this multi billion dollar taxpayer funded airport?" " Public WHAT?! nah let's just abandon it that sounds impossible"
If they want an ocean city they could have just dug canals. 😂😂
Maybe we should convert these islands into mangroves to boost fishing and treat run-off.
One important correction about the dates on the Bataan Nuclear plant... it was supposed to be operational in the mid 80s but after the 1986 EDSA revolution, the Cory govt scrapped it but still paid the loan for the project instead of using her clout at the time to cancel the loan as well.
The Mt Pinatubo volcano erupted in 1992, and no one knew it was actually a volcano because it was a solid mountain. It erupted after 600 yrs. It was never a factor in the justification of the nuclear power plant. In fact, even the subic and Clark US bases were clueless about the volcano until they saw the underground movements. They knew it was going to erupt and hurriedly left with all their hardware, leaving the country to fend for itself after the destruction the volcano also created every year after each storm.
Great video. Thanks. Yet again, Evidence suggest the Adage is true, that Riches & Power, rarely lead towards Intelligent Choices .
This fear of nuclear power plant is stupidity. Chernobil had serious project problems, and operatorors made a huge mistake
90% or more of nuclear power accidents are actually caused by the coolant water. Or rather, the lack of it. Meltdowns are specifically when the reactor rods get too hot and melt out of the containment center because there wasn't enough water, usually due to a pipe bursting or damage to the pumps.
@@lr8763 every system controlling risky activity has human error in consideration, reason why there are a lot of redundancy.
Are you afraid to fly? Do you have any dan holding water near you home? Do you know when its last inspection happened? Do you know how many poisonous chemical plants are around your home and how dangerous they are to life around you?
@@headphonesaxolotl How many serious nuclear power accidents have there been this century?
@@albertnielsen1154 Not a whole lot.
Nuclear Power rocks. It’s as ferrasbras says. I hate hearing the uninformed public speak on nuclear power and all its overblown/misinformed dangers. So says an American nuclear engineer…..🇺🇸
You know, one of the most annoying things is the absolutely *abysmal level of ignorance* of _any single aspect of modern nuclear power_ constantly exhibited by almost anyone "reporting" on nuclear power plants. Regardless of the issues which may have existed with the Bataan plant, and any misled social concerns as a result of Chernobyl, there is a single, simple, highly relevant fact which *no one in the merdia ever ever ever bothers to mention:*
The accident at Chernobyl not only can't happen at Western plants, it's practically never been even _possible_ at Western nuclear power plants -- and by "Western", I mean "anywhere outside the former Soviet Union".
It has to do with *plant design*. The type of design used in Western nuclear plants, historically (newer designs are quite a bit more advanced -- all current plants are based in designs essentially created in the 1960s -- we've learned a bit since then), have almost all been what are called "PWR"s -- "Pressurized Water Reactors". The Chernobyl design, "GMR"s, or "Graphite Moderated Reactors", is not dissimilar to the absolute very first nuclear pile built in the early 40s in Chicago by Enrico Fermi. It is singularly significant to note that there were less than a dozen GMRs ever built in the West, and even there, every single one of those was out of operation by the mid 1970s. The GMR design was considered substantially more dangerous -- to people with the 1950s and 60s attitude towards nuclear plants -- than the PWR, such that few were ever built.
Now, lets see why the GMR is much more dangerous. A PWR basically uses WATER to "moderate", or help control, the nuclear reaction that is being used -- said water is kept under pressure, hence "pressurized" which allows it to get much hotter than water usually gets and remains "water" vs. "steam". The temperature of the water in the pressure jacket of a PWR gets up above 600° F., well above the normal boiling point of water. In general, there can be no fire or other significant release of energy -- the worst that can *really* happen is a containment failure which causes a release of steam -- likely radioactive steam, but still, steam only.
A GMR, however, is a "Graphite" moderate reactor. Graphite. Pencil lead. **CHARCOAL.**
Yes, we're going to take this source of intense heat, and _surround it with _*_charcoal briquettes!!_* Can ya see how this MIGHT be a bit more stupid and dangerous than STEAM? Because that's what happened at Chernobyl -- it got really really hot, and the GRAPHITE/Charcoal caught FIRE, and burned for days, releasing radioactive particulates into a huge cloud which spread across a significant part of Europe in non-trivial amounts.
The two have nothing to do with one another, don't reflect anything upon one another, and this point REALLY should be part of any discussion of nuclear power -- even if it's only in passing.
P.S., the second worst nuclear incident (it did not involve nuclear power) was ALSO in the Soviet Union, at a place called Kyshtym. I'll let anyone interested look that up. It's yet another example of abysmal and amazing sloppiness and incompetence in the USSR.
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As to "holding the referendum _before_ building a project", how about **educating the public about actual nuclear power plants** sufficiently that *_fear mongering imbeciles_* don't cause them to make stupid, poor decisions about said projects? SMH.
Toronto was the wanted aeroport in the early 1970s, Canadian airlines were denied access to many foreign aerodromes due to lack of access to YYZ.
It's interesting. I'm from Ukraine. You showed the footage with the Ukrainian football team Dinamo from Kyiv passing to the field. Thanks:)
If an award could go to a place with the most useless mega projects, it would surely go to Dubai
Obviously the Millennium Dome doesn’t belong on this list.
You have an excellent speaking voice. Very enjoyable to listen to your narratives - wonderful control of your timbre and the emotional emphasis you can and do bring to bear to illustrate your points and drive them home without over doing!
I would build a school to teach people about what not to take on as Mega projects.
I remember when Wonderland Eurasia was announced. It was called "AnkaPark" back then. I really hope it opens one day. Another abandoned/never-opened amusement park of note is Hot-Go Dreamworld in China. They built two massive B&M coasters, which are known to be the most reliable and expensive roller coasters in the world. They have sat abandoned since 2015.
If I bought an island in the world, I’d want to build a nuclear power plant that I would then never turn on
Me too!
And a spa for pomeranians and poodles.
Super Interesting video. Going back to watch the previous ones.
Both of the nuclear power plants mentioned should have started up! The danger from nuclear power is vastly exaggerated! Yes, you don't want to eat nuclear fuel, just like thousands of other products like gasoline and cleaning chemicals that we use every and don't worry about but we probably should more than we do. But too many people get hysterical we they hear the word nuclear!
So half of these are not useless, far from it, just lessons learned and currently active.
"Turkish amusement park" is like "Sewer swimming pool"
lol Or like trying to build tropical islands in a desert climate.
Wow! This channel was h hidden gem!👍 really good and informative. Like the speakers voice and nice to see him to😘 thanks for this
Thomas/Sweden 🇸🇪
Visiting Dubai was amazing. The craziest experience I've ever been through
It takes Mother nature 50 million years to sculp a geographic masterpiece ...and humans think they can modify it...without consequences.
A massive abandoned amusement park would be a great location for so many movies and series to film from. I'd love to see a proper full-budget live action Ace Lightning... Just saying.
I want your opinion on multi-modal corridors across countries like BRI and IMEC. Since they are huge megaprojects with hundreds of billions spent on it. Also, I would like a video on more of India's megaprojects.
Hey, we made a video about the silk road, but we could check out the IMEC. We also made a Top 10 India megaprojects video, but i'm sure we will feature more projects in the future
@@MegaBuildsYT I loved both of the videos but as you can see in recent news there is fallout happening in BRI with Italy considering leaving the project many CPEC corridor projects not getting completed on time, along with a mind-boggling growing debt for China and it not getting enough returns of it as well. Also, your videos of India's megaprojects were excellent. But I think you should include many other BIGGER projects in your future videos. Also, this is just a suggestion as a viewer and a loyal subscriber.❤Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMMENTING BACK. It means a lot
The question is a odd one because it’s literally thousands of projects that are a wide combat of needed energy and telecommunications infrastructure, to high ways to nowhere and observations decks not needed. All on the host countries dime of course.
@@MitanshSinghaniayea it’s like a third of BRI projects of defaulted. It’s crazy
@@AL-lh2ht That's the problem. It is so crazy.
Interesting format and topic. And you have a great voice, sir.
Lagos is actually spoken as if it has a y after the a and arguably a double s to end i.e. Laygoss 5:04
Apparently the isolation is so unusual that it's proving quite popular.
Great job with this video! Very interesting content. Thanks.
They are very rich. They abandon Lamborghinis in the streets
Well, I'm the one who From the city of dongguan.And I can tell you that the Vacancy issue of the south China mall is not because of the economy condition of the city of Dongguan. Dongguan is actually quite a wealthy city in China.It is one of the top 20 city in China with a population over 10 million.
The vacancy of the south China mall mainly because all those shops are sold by the developer to individual buyers so that they cannot lease the premises on their will. Also, it sits on a less developed surburb of the city by the time when it was opened.
Fun fact: They used Mirabel Airport for the zombie home in Warm Bodies!
Jim Hendrix wrote a song about those places before they were even created.. interesting
Castles in the sand?
"but the words of the prophet were written on a subway wall" - the other song from another artist I think
Too much time, too much boredom too much money, not enough foresight and brains.A wonderful combination of grandiosity and high risk of failure. Oh, dear!!! Who would have thought?
Also, every expert said right at the beginning, in the planning phase, that those islands would be impossible to keep above water for very long. But the UAE thought money can beat everything - even physics...
UAE achieved their goal in bring in tourism with the projected started when they will trying t get international attention. They are now the third ost visited city on earth last year.
I was the involved with control systems for a nuclear plant to be built by TVA in Bellefonte, Alabama. I know there were lots of issues with my company's systems and I heard they might not have been addressed. I'm glad to see the plant has been cancelled.
They destroyed kilometres of coral for this. 😢
Do you care about corals more than peoole?
Please have a look into the three Mexican mega-projects: Mayan Train, Dos Bocas refinery, Felipe Ángeles Airport….3 mega- failures
How about sustainable green projects that plant from seed.
Just in case you’re curious, Montreals, Dorval airport in Montreal, Canada was renamed on the 01 of January 2004 in honour of our former Prime Minister ‘Pierre Elliot Trudeau’, who was the father of our current Prime Minister ‘Justin Trudeau’.
I find your videos both highly informative and enjoyable.
Great content as always. Please tone down the dramatic background music. It’s rather distracting and unnecessary. Thank you.
Lol dorVAL RHYMES WITH PAL or GAL ….. Lol Doorville hahah made my day. Thanks for your content ❤️
Hard to beat mother nature and the sea
oh the human hubris
only matched by its stupidity
Museums, museums, and parks. The expensive kind!
Get your facts straight. I am from Montreal and the main role of the airport today is cargo flights, but it is also home to MEDEVAC and general aviation flights. It is a manufacturing base for Bombardier Aerospace and Airbus Canada, where final assembly of regional jet (CRJ700, CRJ900 and CRJ1000) aircraft and the Airbus A220 (formerly Bombardier CSeries) is conducted. It's where most private jets land and is also a base for helicopter.
Now, there is also a go-cart track.
I’m also from Montréal and the way he said Dorval was painful 🥲
I agree, I think Top_Luxury's sorry for what they didn't mention from their side about it, but it is great that people are pointing out stuff to make the facts in these channels much more better and true!
mate, the airport is useless.... no matter what you say, the airport is not being used as it was intended.
@@mikatu Wait, so, they are building airplanes there. Airplanes use the runways to take off and land and it's useless??? But there are literally airplanes and people using it.
People use guns as hammers (Not the way they were intended to be used) but it doesn't make guns useless.
Ha ha ha.
As a Crazy Cat Lady, I would want to build the largest cat sanctuary in the world. MeoW!
Some of these dredgings buried lots of corals and marine living creatures. We never see them but men's ambition just discarded their presence there. So sad.
What a great video!
The O2 is NOT on the Meridian line.
Eko Atlantic is not useless
It's a super expensive place
Definitely not a useless project
This is not useless, this is useful as an *EXAMPLE* so that in the future there will be no more wasted projects
There will always be useless projects as long as there is people even if every one on planet watched this video
The line enters the chat
Seen China?
The content t of your video was really great and your commentary excellent!
You've got to hand it to the politicians in Nigeria. Create a massive 'dud' project and siphon off billions of $ while it is being constructed. Then after it is declared a dud create further opportunities for corruption.
8:55 The president at that time only thought about the kickback from the project. Safety was the least of his priorities.
That neom line city next on the list 💩💩💩
''skyscrapers are a huge sink of resources right?
so lets build 1 ginormous 170 KILOMETERS long skyscraper in the middle of the most resource poor environment on earth
what could POSSIBLY go wrong?"
oops scrap that it's only 0.8 km long now
I have never seen your videos, just wanted to say, you have a great voice, do,you auto tone? Or is that your natural,voice? Also the video was well produced, fast paced and informative no lollygagging. I appreciate you.
Eko atlantic caused a lot of floods in Lagos. the government was aware of the possible consequences yet they ignored it. who are they building it for? the average citizen cannot afford such expensive luxury. it will end up completely useless
So much poverty yet we still build vast vanity projects
1:31 "$500 CAD" doesn't seem like the correct label
Wow very cheap
There's another near useless mega project of Dubai. No sewer infrastucture was built for the city.
I bet he wont pin this.
haha at least you won the bet :D
@@MegaBuildsYTWell atleast this ain't gonna get popular...
thanks for sharing the info.
The first mistake was to think rich people from all over the world would flock to a Muslim country where laws are harsh.
I'm not a Muslim, but their laws aren't harsh. They are just unpopular to the sinful ways of other countries. Actually, take a look at the laws.
@@cherrychevys When religion becomes law, people lose their freedom by allowing a chosen few to decide what is moral and what is not. Morality police are always bad. When you drink the Kool aid of moral laws over freedom, Satan owns you.
@@cherrychevys Burgas are the laws of the ignorant. If you follow these religious laws, that will be your fate when you pass on, for eternity. Follow the God of forgiveness and understanding.
I’m waiting for The Line in Saudi Arabia to be abandoned at some point. It’s gotta be the most dystopian place on earth and who wants to go live in the middle of the desert in a place you can’t leave? It’s a mile long prison.