Most Useless Megaprojects In The World

Countries around the

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have invested millions and even billions of dollars in huge construction projects that improve our lives, but some

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should have been thrown in the trash at the planning stage, so grab a helmet and a high-quality jacket. visibility we have. Megaprojects Megaprojects and something a little shaky to look at oh okay it's time to look at the

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oh Road to Nowhere Hawaii is a beautiful place, it has beaches grass skirts coconut bras and this is super expensive ruins the scenery , Interstate H3 now I know what you're thinking Interstate Hawaii, that's a big highway, well here's the thing that doesn't connect to any other state, the name just means it's been funded by the federal government, so instead Spanning 2,500 miles to the nearest state, California, it extends just 15 from downtown Honolulu northwest to Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

Still, it cost a colossal $1.3 billion to build, or $80 million per mile, in 1960, when the highway was first built. The authorized people were not happy. Not only were a large number of trees planned to be cut down, but there were also sacred temples and burial mounds in the area that were very important to the Native Hawaiians. Because of this, people protested harshly, but the builders eventually obtained legal permission anyway. . and in 1989 seven contractors started building it and eight years later it was finally opened in 1997. So even though H3 took 37 years and wasted the budget by a surprising amount.

Are Hawaiians happy? Construction did not destroy many of the sacred sites throughout the Valley, there are now lots. of people do not drive near the road for fear of being cursed by the dead, so it is hardly used now. If you were thinking about taking a leisurely cruise through the Hawaiian countryside, then you better check your backseat before you set off, that's a real highway to hell, damn pops, oh man, all this talk can be thirsty work, sometimes I wish I had a giant reservoir to meet all my hydration needs. The city of Los Angeles faced the same problem in the 20th century, although it was not because everyone talks too much, they needed a reliable water reserve for the city's growing needs, so they hired self-taught civil engineer William Mulholland to begin designing and build the largest arch dam in the world.

Construction began in 1924 and was completed suspiciously quickly. In 1926, located in the San Francisco Canyon about 40 miles from downtown Los Angeles, the completed San Francisco Dam was more than 700 feet long and 185 feet high, large enough to hold more than 12,000 million gallons of water, which represents more than 18,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. to fill the cracks in the experience of the self-taught mulholland began to show very literally several leaks began to appear that the engineer ruled out is totally normal but in reality the foundations of the dam were woefully inadequate to support such an enormous weight of water on March 12 In 1928, just five days after the reservoir reached its maximum capacity, the gigantic concrete wall collapsed, sending 12 billion gallons of water hurtling toward the Pacific Ocean.

After just five minutes, the 120-foot wave had moved violently within a mile and a half of the collapsed wall, destroying everything in its path. It went down as one of the worst engineering catastrophes in US history, destroying a thousand homes and leaving at least 431 people sleeping with the fish, although he was cleared of any wrongdoing. Mulholland never worked again. All I can say is, damn city man, I didn't do it. I slept too well last night, my neighbor was jumping on his bed for hours if only he lived somewhere quiet, alone and alone, in fact I think I know the exact location where the Shanghyun International Project is a 1,800 acre development in Shijuang , China, and is completely empty for several years, developers spent a monstrous sum of three billion dollars creating a new high-end residential super community, but when the CEO of the construction company was arrested in 2014 for bribing state officials, the company went into crisis and incurred billions of dollars in debt, they were forced to declare bankruptcy, and the government seized Chiang Yoon, leaving thousands of people who had already bought properties there with large out of pocket expenses.

Now the huge city is eerily empty like a ghost town and while the European-style buildings and statues may look great from the outside, the inside tells a different story. I mean, just look at this mall. A company has expressed interest in taking over the failed city, but it will take a lot of money to save this place. It's a shame if it had worked. know an amazing place to live. I know an even more amazing place though my YouTube channel hit the like and subscribe buttons and you will never miss one of my amazing videos again.

Okay, let's get back to it. Delta Skelter I hate sitting in traffic. Someone needs to hurry up and invent a teleporter so I don't get stuck during rush hour again. Well, China could have done the next best thing. The key word could be: the hzmb bridge system has reduced transportation time between three of the

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populated cities in the world. From four hours to just 30 minutes, Hong Kong Zhuhai and Macau is the world's longest sea crossing at over 34 miles long, meaning it could stretch the entire width of Los Angeles and still have a bridge to spare. for wowzers, so what's the big deal all things considered? gigantic Costa thing 18.8 billion dollars, you imagine it would be put to good use, but almost no one drives there, you need a crossing permit and it's almost impossible to get one, hmm, strange, only high tech investors, high academics, politicians or philanthropists.

They are even considered for permits and your vehicle must be registered in all three cities, even then the daily limit for applicants is only 400. that is very stingy, it seems like they are doing everything they can to prevent people from crossing, some people They believe that because of Hong Kong's overpopulation problem, they are trying to limit the flow of traffic into the city, but if that is the case, why spend nine years and almost $19 billion building this just to prevent people from using it? Something seems suspicious to me, what do you think, let me? You know in the comments below, stop wasting your time.

Have you ever dreamed of having a giant statue built for you when you die? Mr. Bartholomew Egbert, amazed creator of the best YouTube videos. Yeah, I like the sound of that. Well, a statue in Custer County, South Dakota, takes this concept to the extreme. Back in 1877, Native American war hero Crazy Horse led the Lakota people into battle to protect native territory from the federal government, but was mortally wounded 62 years later, in 1939, Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear commissioned Polish-American sculptor Korjak Zilakowski, who had previously worked. at nearby Mount Rushmore to carve the hero's image on Thunderhead Mountain with those credentials, what could go wrong, well, Korshok's original plans were for the statue to be 641 feet long and 563 feet high, surpassing all the mountain and looking a lot like this jump to the present. day and this is what we actually got, the face is the only part that was finished and it wasn't completed until 1998. 50 years after corjoc started and there has been virtually no progress since then, although Korjac himself worked tirelessly to try to complete it after his In passing, his family took up the baton and they were not very enthusiastic despite raising millions of dollars in donations and tourist fees from the incomplete Monument, they added very little to it and even worse, Thunderhead Mountain was a sacred cemetery that destroyed the land where Crazy Horse died. protecting goes against everything he stood for, the Lakota people seemed to have been left behind for a selfish money making project by the Zielkowskis and that is truly a disaster, but let me know what you think in the comments below.

Silent stadium with 3.5 billion fans around. In the world, it's safe to say that soccer is the most popular sport on Earth, so in 2014, when Brazil hosted the prestigious World Cup, they set out to build a ton of new stadiums to accommodate all the global spectators. , but one stadium left fans scratching their heads in the city. From Manaus in the Amazon rainforest, the aptly named Arena de Amazonia might be the worst place ever for a giant soccer stadium; There are no roads from Manaus to the coast and that was where the construction materials were delivered, so all the materials had to be shipped up the Amazon River, which was a super expensive trip;

Then, during construction, the scorching temperatures of the rainforest proved too much for the field's grass, which turned brown and died. In this event, the organizers decided to paint it green, not exactly what you would expect from a 300. a million dollars, but his post-world cup life has proven to be even more miserable. See how the most successful team in Manau Nacional is in the fifth tier of Brazilian football, so while they have taken over the stadium as if their own audience attendance rarely exceeds it. three thousand, a small fraction of the total capacity of 44,300, have literally no fans apart from the occasional Christian concert that takes place there, the place remains quite empty and sadly I think even the big man upstairs would say that It's a complete waste.

Max, you are wondering about a career in robotics. It's really ramped up in recent years, we've had the good, the bad and the downright bizarre, but this giant Gundam suit in Yokohama, Japan might be one of the most ridiculous of them all, based on the RX 78 II mech suit from the popular anime Gundam. series, this scale model stands a tremendous 59 feet tall. I'm not saying that moving a 25 ton robot the size of three giraffes is an easy task, however, I wouldn't trust this Gundam to protect Earth from alien invasions like the ones in the show, other than taking a few short steps forward and crouching on one knee like a slow granny, it doesn't really do much, it's just a big shiny tourist attraction, so if you don't like Gundam it seems pretty pointless as long as the official price hasn't been revealed, a similar sized statue in Tokyo costs around a hundred thousand dollars, but that can only move its head, while the Yokohama Gundam can move its entire body and that means a much higher price.

I don't know, he's not really doing it for me, but hey, the fans seem happy, so who am I to judge if you're going to pay whether you love or hate former President Donald Trump? There's no denying that particular policy from his initial 2016 election. It didn't turn out exactly as he had promised, you know, reinforcing the border wall between the US and Mexico, the new wall was supposed to be made of 1,000 miles of big, beautiful concrete and Mexico was going to cover a whopping 8 to 12 billion. dollar bill, well so far it hasn't gone exactly as planned, the border wall is only 450 miles long, less than half of what was promised and only 47 miles of that is actually new, the rest is just the wall previous reinforced with steel Bullards which, as you can see, isn't that good at keeping people out, man, it didn't even break a sweat, but if you're not the best climber, hey, don't worry, there are some nice lows on the that you can jump.

In the land of the free, some of the new parts were made so poorly that you just have to wait until they fall off. So far, this ridiculous project has cost an outrageous figure of 15 billion dollars, that is, almost 320 million per new mile built, in addition, some estimates say that annual maintenance costs could be up to 28 billion dollars and As for Mexico footing the bill, well, they haven't paid a cent, everything has been covered by taxpayers. Sounds like when my date ordered 150 shares and then realized it was gone. her bag so I had to pay oh she's so stupid Energy Hour if I'm procrastinating I do 15 minutes of work Max before I get bored but I have nothing on the failures of the Manju nuclear power plant in Fuqui prefecture in Japan since which got the go-ahead in 1983 has only produced A measly hour of energy one hour and several decades It takes me longer to wake up each morning Manju is a prototype fast breeder reactor that shakes up the reaction process that the creators expected the plant to recycle nuclear fuel used to create even more energy, making Production Way more efficient, which sounds great on paper, except it turned out to be anything but efficient.

Major failures were discovered in 14,000 individual components, some of the critical features ofstation control security. Alas, in 1995 there was a fire that caused the personnel I tried to hide by editing the security footage and in 2010 a 3.3 ton refueling machine fell into the reactor vessel and was damaged so much that it could not pass by the boss, what a comedy of errors, but somehow the plant continued to limp along. 2011, although nuclear disaster struck Fukushima when a tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant and caused a radiation leak after public opinion turned firmly against nuclear power, especially Manju, which by that time had devoured almost 12 thousand millions of dollars of government spending with nothing to show for it.

Five years later, in 2016, it was closed permanently and its deconstruction was authorized, but guess what that will take until 2047 and cost another $3.4 billion. Overall, this has been an embarrassing 60-year, $15 billion demonstration of how not to do it. do something, and if you're wondering where the name Manju comes from, it's named after the Buddhist deity of wisdom, the irony is Coastland Ghost Land. Recently, I've been trying to live a little more sustainably, recycle, donate things, and stop making. gasoline fires in my backyard, but some countries like Malaysia have had difficulty implementing the environmental changes announced in 2006. Malaysia's Forest City was intended to be an incredible role model for future cities that consisted of four artificial islands in front to the coastal wetlands of Johor.

Conceptual images showed beautiful plant-covered towers with no car roads and smart-tech apartments that could keep your home hands-free, but since the grand opening in 2016 things haven't exactly taken off, with just 15,000 units sold in 2019, embarrassingly under of its target of seven hundred thousand and only 500 people actually lived there uncomfortably. Chinese developers targeted the project almost exclusively at upper-middle-class Chinese citizens as a place to store their wealth outside of China, but this collapsed when the Chinese government introduced an annual spending limit of fifty thousand dollars on purchases made abroad. the country couple that with kovid and Malaysia having a political crisis and you are left with a ghost town fighting for buyers with the most basic studio costing almost a hundred thousand dollars and the average salary in Malaysia is less than eleven thousand dollars, there is no chance Of the locals allow it, but that's not all.

Despite being promoted as an ecological wonder, its construction has caused irreversible damage to the protected wetlands off the coast of Malaysia. Oh man, now you can't put a price on the environment, but you can put a price on this hunk of metal and that's a ridiculous 100 billion dollars, oh man I feel dizzy, the only residents are these plastic animals from bad taste everywhere. I'm not surprised no one wants to live here, it makes me cringe. Buying your first home is a stressful experience full of ups and downs, but if your first property was the Lotus Riverside project in Shanghai, it would simply have been a monumental low.

On June 27, 2009, one of the 11 13-story apartment blocks was completely collapsed to one side, fortunately no one. He lived there at the time, but unfortunately an unlucky worker was inside collecting his tools when the building gave way. They had been digging a hole to create an underground garage under the south side of the apartment block and piling all the excavated earth to the north. side, but the huge, heavy mound of earth shifted the ground structure, putting additional pressure on the concrete foundation, which was vital to supporting the building from below. Unable to tolerate this increase in pressure, they ruptured and the entire building miraculously collapsed.

Another 10 blocks were undamaged, but can you imagine the Domino Rally that could have occurred? Well, 400 owners of the other apartments were able to do so, as they demanded their money back immediately. As a result, the developers had to pay almost $2 million in damages and were affected. with almost 3 million for the cleanup and that could be the most expensive pile of dirt I have ever heard in Costa Fortune in the words of one of my favorite poets. I like big boats and I can't lie, that was M.C Harbour, what a guy, uh, well, this one. The ship here is absolutely gigantic or was gigantic.

This is the Costa Concordia, a 114,000-ton, 950-foot-long megacruise ship capable of carrying more than 4,000 people. This huge ship entered service in 2006 and cost a whopping $570 million, but it barely lasted six years. On the last leg of a Mediterranean cruise in 2012 she hit a rock near Tuscany, Italy and partially capsized. Captain Francesco Chetino had deviated from the planned course to conduct a salute sale in which a ship approaches the shore to greet those on land. Safe enough to navigate the area with the naked eye. Shatino had turned off the ship's computer navigation system before performing the maneuver.

Big mistake. Less than a thousand feet from shore, he suddenly noticed dangerous waves breaking on the reef and ordered the ship to turn around by then. It was too late, the ship turned well and crashed directly into an unexplored rock at the bottom of the sea. Despite the rescue team's best efforts, 34 people never made it back to shore, adding to the tragic losses that took the ship two years to recover from. She was refloated and towed almost 200 miles to Genoa, where she was wrecked and scrapped. The total cost of the cleanup and scrapping, plus compensation to victims, amounted to about $2 billion.

You could buy almost four new boats for that price, more like a Costa Concordia. Costa flipping Fortune, the great stench For architect Thomas Wilson, living in London in the 1820s was difficult not because of the food or the climate, but because of all the bodies that were piling up with nowhere to bury them. From 1770, London had a massive industrial boom, so many people relocated. into the city to work, but more people eventually means more bodies to bury, and allocating enough space in the cemetery to accommodate them all was overlooked, until Wilson devised a seriously metal solution to London's corpse conundrum: a giant pyramid. of death building Wilson.

He theorized that one thousand acres of traditional cemetery space could be condensed into just 18 acres capable of storing 5 million bodies. He planned a Sepulchre, sorry, a giant pyramid of death 90 stories high. The tallest building in London. The Shard is 95 stories tall or just over a thousand feet. This pyramid would have been colossal, each side would have been covered in dark granite with stairs leading to an observatory at the top. Unfortunately, at $789 million in today's money, the crazy plan proved too expensive, plus it's understandable that Londoners were in disbelief. against having a nightmarish pyramid of bodies towering over their city, so instead, the city privatized land specifically for traditional cemeteries.

Boring, I still understand it. 5 million bodies won't smell as good. The Big Smoke would have been more like the Big Stink. Corruption of capital. This here. I'm going to travel more. Wanna. eat good food, meet new people and see some interesting cities, but one place I won't go is the capital city of nepito Myanmar, despite being eight times the size of New York, Napierta has less than 1 8 of the population of New York, where? If all goes well, they were never there. Napito became the capital in 2005, after Myanmar's military government became paranoid that the previous capital, Yangon, was going to be attacked from the sea.

And sure, Napito is more central, but it's also a much less desirable location. live even though it covers almost 3,000 square miles there is only one high school very few shops and almost no public transportation plus most businesses are still located in the former capital so unsurprisingly people don't wants to move there this 20th. The lane road is almost always eerily empty, like something out of Silent Hill, although it's pretty obvious who this town was really made for and there may be no public facilities, but there is a 100-room presidential palace and a parliamentary complex of 31 buildings, hmm, the whole place cost.

Furthermore, a heartbreaking $4 billion, about five percent of all the money Myanmar makes in a year, the public essentially funded something completely

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to them so the corrupt government can hold on to its dictatorial power. Simply put, you won't catch me sightseeing. napito hard times it's crazy to think that nowadays if you have enough money you can literally fly into space, but our journey to conquer the cosmos has had some major obstacles along the way back in 1986, NASA's shuttle Challenger took off into space just 73 seconds later, although it completely broke up and burned, sadly all seven crew members went down with it, the shuttle was intended to have a 10-year lifespan, however Challenger had only been in action for three miserable years, so what the hell happened?

Well, O-rings. on the right side of the rocket booster did not function properly, these are small rubber rings that create an airtight seal to contain all the immense pressure that is produced by burning rocket fuel, but the sub-zero temperatures on launch day hardened the rubber preventing the seal from forming properly due to this when the rocket flames burned the booster wall away from the external fuel tank, this ruptured the tank, spilling highly flammable liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen everywhere and setting everything on fire. the shuttle to make matters worse, NASA engineers had pointed out flaws. in rocket boosters as early as 1977, as well as the dangers of launching in cold conditions, however, their concerns were ignored and the shuttle was allowed to take off, due to this, the space shuttle program was suspended for the next three years , rightly so, so in today's money that the Challengers build plus the money used after the disaster would cost a whopping 15 billion dollars in total.

Now I'm sure there were many lessons learned from this terrible tragedy, but Holy Jupiter, that's a costly mistake we made. I don't trust these guys to make a sandwich let alone build anything, so which of those mega projects do you think should have been a mega reject? Let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching the foreigner.