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.

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

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.

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.

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?!?!

$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

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

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.

LOL, that shout-out to Sydney got me. I live <1 minute away from a station on the new city line opening tomorrow (19-Aug), and we've had the street closed for the last couple of days as heavy machinery has been going up and down for last-minute work. That said, I am excited to have highspeed and consistent trains right next door. The first phase which opened in 2019 has been very useful to many people and brought down commute times massively!

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Always worth watching a good MegaBuilds video

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

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