One thing missed: "Threading the needle" at Tottenham Court Road. One of the tunnels has less than one meter clearance on one side and about 1 meter clearance on the other side to avoid another underground tunnel and a set of escalators!
@14rs24 жыл бұрын
You should do a video called “Simon Whistler taking over KZfaq. The ultimate mega project” 😂
@roberthurley39414 жыл бұрын
14rs2 sad part is Simon just does what he is told to. He is just face and a voice.
@fuckgoogleforever4 жыл бұрын
@@roberthurley3941 He started this channel and solely owns it, solely owns business blaze, solely owns the Simon Whistler show, and is or was an equal partner in today I found out. Not really sure where you got your information lol
@Tolaios4 жыл бұрын
I'll start a Kickstarter for a youtube channel, we'll see how far it gets
@Knight_Astolfo4 жыл бұрын
@@roberthurley3941 strange narrative
@wlbrfernandes4 жыл бұрын
or a Today I found out video on how Simon Whistler took over KZfaq
@FreshLexo4 жыл бұрын
Simon needs to start a few more youtube channels. There's still about 1.5 hours of the day that I'm not getting Whistlered™️.
@laszlogman25452 жыл бұрын
Yes, More channels Please!
@bluewatson43414 жыл бұрын
Every KZfaq channel will be Simon whistler’s by the end of the crisis.
@jackcallahan18484 жыл бұрын
Blue Watson it’s just like Disney
@fuckgoogleforever4 жыл бұрын
@@jackcallahan1848 Yeah but Simon doesn't seem to be evil. I guess neither did Disney Simon might be part of the illuminati and that's how he's got so many channels!
@bluewatson43414 жыл бұрын
Jack Callhoon beards for the beard god
@RobDucharme4 жыл бұрын
Better than ANY Soul Media channel.
@venuslife55824 жыл бұрын
Fucking liberal piece of shit this simon fuck
@Nik66444 жыл бұрын
3 billion pounds over budget... Laughs in Berlin airport
@jur4x4 жыл бұрын
or french new nuclear powerplant
@AC-ey1tn4 жыл бұрын
Or the world trade center complex
@wert27894 жыл бұрын
Stuttgart 21
@stephjovi4 жыл бұрын
Are you guys making a list for Simon? 😂Megaprojects that were way over budget
@micahphilson4 жыл бұрын
I was going to mention the airport! It started as a great idea everyone couldn't wait for, and now everyone just takes it for granted that it's basically a mafia front and embezzlement scheme that will never be completed.
@shanehaney60404 жыл бұрын
I mean, Crossrail will likely still be opened before the German Airport - its a low bar, but its still there
@cedricfranzen85584 жыл бұрын
while BER is will always be there to provide all of us with a good laugh, it looks like your prediction turns out not to be true... all safety tests were successfully completed last week, so it appears to be true this time and the new airport (well actually it's just a new terminal on the same premises where the old East-German SXF used to be) will finally open on October, 31st this year
@toker66644 жыл бұрын
@@cedricfranzen8558 really just a terminal thats even worse, the infrastructure was there already wow
@shanehaney60404 жыл бұрын
Cedric Franzen Easy money says it gets delayed. Again.
@cedricfranzen85584 жыл бұрын
@@toker6664 well, the old SXF airport used to have two very close runways, so they could not be operated independently. As a result the northern of those two runways was closed and the new "airport"/terminal was constructed to the south of the former southern runway with a completely new runway to the south of that. So the old south SXF runway is now the new BER north runway. With the new setup the two runways can be used independently, which makes them able to handle a lot more traffic. But a part of the runway and taxiway structure, as well as navigation aids for aircraft were able to stay the way they were. Of course all the surroundings are completely new, such as the subway that connects to the city center or parking lots, drop off areas and so on. Basically the whole "landside" infrastructure is new, while a part of the "airside" infrastructure was reused
@toker66644 жыл бұрын
@@cedricfranzen8558 thank you very thorough answer, as in some house renovations its cheaper to demolish and rebuild, would it of been better to start from scratch? But the comedy of errors as a Brit we get told how efficient Germans are is funny
@QueenOfSh3ba4 жыл бұрын
London Taxi Drivers: "Simon's here..... lets get that cruise booked"
@amb1634 жыл бұрын
Whenever I visit London, I try to stay on the Circle Line and other less commuter-burdened lines as much as possible, if I'm not walking. I also try to time my travel outside rush hour(s). I mean, I'm a tourist... I try to stay out of the way of locals who are trying to live their lives in one of the busiest cities on the planet. It's just good manners.
@Alan_Mac4 жыл бұрын
Sensible. I love seeing tourists in London but if they're on the tube at 08.30 without luggage (so they're not going to an airport/train station etc) then I do shake my head a wee bit. Just take an extra half hour in bed and have a lazy b'fast, please!
@negativeindustrial4 жыл бұрын
No one noticed your absence.
@boomznbladez4054 жыл бұрын
@@negativeindustrial i believe that is the point of their action
@sebmadraszek29764 жыл бұрын
As a Londoner i'd say dont bother getting the tube in Zone 1 unless you are really stretched for time, most things are in easy walking distance and you'll see more of the city above ground anyway
@AH-wm9nx4 жыл бұрын
When I moved I purposely chose to live in an area on the district line so I can commute on the least polluted and crowded tube line. It's a little slow, but I'd rather have a comfortable journey that takes a few minutes longer.
@zaidpatel73124 жыл бұрын
Simon : London trains are crazy overcrowded. Mumbai Trains : Hold my beer
@larryscott39824 жыл бұрын
Tokyo comes to mind. What city’s subway system isn’t running above designed capacity?
@towermoss4 жыл бұрын
Paris: "Hold my wine."
@appleislander85364 жыл бұрын
How do they compare to Delhi? In my experience Delhi's trains were a lot worse than London's.
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you win. XD XD
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
Larry Scott Yeah, but to be fair the trains in Tokyo are quite modern, fast, and somehow very clean.
@paulqueripel34934 жыл бұрын
Watching a documentary on it, the "threading the eye of the needle" bit was impressive. They had to get the boring machine through a gap between one underground tunnel and an escalator, 35cm in one direction, 85cm in the other. The trains still ran through the tunnel. They also had to dig holes, then have radiating tubes from the hole, to inject concrete under pressure to push buildings up if any of the hundreds of laser rangefinders found any movement in the building.
@M4rtinK4 жыл бұрын
It gets like this in Tokyo as well - there are Tokyo metro stations that are curved - bith vertically and horizontally! As thats the only way to fit the stations between all the other metro, local train, Shinkansen & highway tunnels.
@stevecallagher99734 жыл бұрын
Simon, my thanks to you and your team for this installment. I lived in London in the early 2000's and often roamed all over the Underground simply to see what was above ground at the next stop.I was frequently suprised! I am wondering if you would be looking at the story of the undergound segment on the Eurostar high speed line that was built up to St Pancras? As I recall, a fiasco occurred where the TBM activity caused the subsidence of at least 3 or 4 back yards in London that were perched above the path of progress, the home owners returned after a day at work to find their back yards had completely dissappeared and been replaced by fresh concrete...not a BBq or Potrose in sight! This is history that deserves to be told!
@MatthewStinar4 жыл бұрын
Undersea cables would be a good out of sight mega project to cover in a future episode.
@goosebump8014 жыл бұрын
Those cables have always fascinated me. Great suggestion! 👍
@trashyhobo49574 жыл бұрын
patrick quinn ????? What does that have to do with the topic at hand here. People aren’t here to rag on onyone, but to learn.
Simon: "With monstrous german engineering ofcourse!" Me, a history buff: wait, wheres this going simon?!
@AvoidTheCadaver4 жыл бұрын
Zee Germans couldn't take over by blowing everything up so now they've decided to just build everything
@mrnuke9994 жыл бұрын
Where does all the dirt go? If digging tunnels in Minecraft has taught me anything, you fill up a couple of chests and toss the rest in lava.
@extrude224 жыл бұрын
The soil from tunnelling has been transported to the Thames estuary and is being used to create a nature habitat for water birds
@chadoakley85054 жыл бұрын
should have used it to build an airport in Thames estuary
@Cadwaladr4 жыл бұрын
You just need to dig a hole 2 blocks deep, throw in whatever you don't want, then cover up the top.
@Alan_Mac4 жыл бұрын
Inside the workers' trousers - and is dropped discretely when they get out on the streets again...
@caw25sha4 жыл бұрын
They dug another tunnel to put all the dirt in.
@alexeipistoun97834 жыл бұрын
The underground in St. Petersburg is practically a museum.
@Kirovets70113 жыл бұрын
I Know. It's indeed beautiful!!👍👍
@goldenageofdinosaurs71923 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Russia doesn’t fuck around when it comes to their subway stations!
@iman23414 жыл бұрын
Love it! Side note though. Crossrail (I’m not calling it the other thing) actually has provision built into it to have trains up to 11 cars (250m) in length and the signalling can handle up to 30 trains per hour if required.
@LtColShingSides4 жыл бұрын
"...there have been many plagues." *AHH!!* I laughed a little too hard at that one.
@bhuvaneshs.k6384 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on ITER Tokamak and CERN Large Hadron Collider
@bluewatson43414 жыл бұрын
Yesssss
@larryscott39824 жыл бұрын
LHC CERN, and FermiLab. And SLAC, or other. Gotta include what lead up to the LHC for comparison.
@stefanschleps87584 жыл бұрын
Das ist eine Güt idee.
@DaFinkingOrk4 жыл бұрын
@@larryscott3982 Took me a long time to learn that the tunnels were originally dug and used by the LEP collider (Large Electron-Positron collider) and merely reused for the LHC (though only the tunnels: little of the actual equipment is the same, some of the enormous magnets used in some of the current detectors are from past detectors). The use of old colliders as current booster accelerators interests me. They're doing something at (I think) Fermilab to improve luminosity (the 'flow rate' of the particles) that is mostly replacing an almost-antique small circular accelerator with current technology. So booster rings must be pretty important. The LHC itself will likely become one when a new collider is built at CERN - unless the premier world site moves elsewhere due to politics. But they're two reasons why it's useful to build on top of a fairly modern existing installation. I really hope to see the LHC (or Fermilab's largest ring - the Tevatron?) become merely a booster for a project another order of magnitude more powerful in a few decades. They are magnificent engineering. I guess Crossrail for minuture "hyperloop" trains, with several enormous MRI machines for stations, is pretty close to what they really are. Large is a popular name in big science projects now, like the imaginative Very Large Telescope, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, LUVOIR, the Extremely Large Array, and the European Extremely Large Telescope (getting very serious with the Large-ity now. Ludicrously Large Telescope? We have a Very Long Baseline Array now too, when it is relatively small, a radio interferometer should be called the Unnecessarily Long Array. The Extremely Non-Compact Telescope and if built in England then we could have an Awfully Large Particle Collider use an existing Rather Big Accelerator as it's booster ring. Meanwhile America may as well build the Bigger-Than-Yours Space Telescope. I find it funny in a way because they'll *almost all* seem quite small (and possibly even be visitor centres for curiosity of how telescopes used to be) by the end of the century, at least I hope so! At least be toys for PhD students to use, not the cutting edge of feasibility that there are years-long queues for having your observations carried out on.
@lincolnnoronha41284 жыл бұрын
A moment of silence for digger mcdiggerface. the name that should have been
@richardvincent53584 жыл бұрын
BOOOOOOORRIIIIIIIINNNNGGG would have been my choice
@themekfrommars4 жыл бұрын
13.26 "IINGDOM"!? Surely should read "KINGDOM"? Otherwise, great video as always, thanks
@djscottdog14 жыл бұрын
Well a pound of steak mince if £8 so your gonna be stuck eating bags of flour mate
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
@@djscottdog1 2 questions from a guy from the US, steak mince=ground beef? Is there some joke I'm missing to your comment or was a comment deleted in the interim?
@djscottdog14 жыл бұрын
@@skizzik121 yeah tho steak mince is a good cut of meat ground. I think i replyed to the wrong coment , thanks to the new comment section taking me out due to adds, i hate youtube. Some was saying they think that it shouldnt cost more than £1 for each pound of earth removed from tge tunnle
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
@@djscottdog1 gotcha, yeah we just call our ground beef made from "better" cuts; ground "that cut". Ground ribeye, ground chuck and so on. Well I wish you luck fighting with the comment monster
@jarradscarborough79154 жыл бұрын
how the hell did that make it through editing?...
@iammaxhailme4 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of an old joke about NYC I used to hear all the time: "It's going to be a great city when they finish building it!"
@joeyknight82724 жыл бұрын
You gotta keep building
@caw25sha4 жыл бұрын
We have been building London for 2000 years. Hoping to get it finished real soon...
@thetechoasis21794 жыл бұрын
London and New York City are the only 2 cities that matter
@mikejulien23304 жыл бұрын
I was very involved with the Testing and commissioning of Ottawa, Canada’s new rail line. Only 12.5km long and it took a good 3 years to get running... Don’t envy the team working on that system!
@zmanjace13644 жыл бұрын
I was really hoping for Diggery McDiggerface...
@Locutus4 жыл бұрын
The eastern and western parts of the Crossrail are complete, it's just the central section that's not finished. Paddington-Reading and Liverpool Street-Shenfield are open.
@toddavis81514 жыл бұрын
The snowy mountain hydroelectric scheme in Australia would be an interesting mega project to look at.
@steffenschiller31894 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this one. Having lived in London for several years I can appreciate improvements in the public transport. It's ****! And staying in London here is a suggestion: The sewer system designed by Joseph Bazalgette. A amazing improvement which have saved many lives!
@HankD133 жыл бұрын
One thing I found fascinating regarding cross rail was the 3d visualisation of underground London - threading the tunnels around, under and over existing tunnels, sewers and deep pilings of sky scrappers. I remember all the seismic monitoring around all the historic buildings in central London, and I rode Crossrail trains from Hayes & Harlington to Paddington - very nice too!
@gooner723 жыл бұрын
I left London as a 6year old and now I'm 47 but...... I stil love the City of my birth and as it's the Capital of my Country, I love it even more.🏴🇬🇧✌✌
@yakmueller2 жыл бұрын
Now that crossrail is nearly completed, I have never understood why they don't just crack on with crossrail 2? All the skills that have been accumulated with the building of the first project would then be carried over to the next. Many of the problems that have inevitably plagued a project of this complexity have been solved and with the teams and skillsets acquired, could then be carried forward to the next phase. Instead they wait 10 years then start again from scratch and hit the same snags and cost overruns that the first project had.
@jeanbonnefoy13774 жыл бұрын
A suggestion for a next one on the same line (no pun intended, tho it was tempting): the French Grand Paris Express, with more than 200km of automatic express metro lines and 50 plus stations...
@eriklakeland38573 жыл бұрын
The circular line they’re building, line 15, as part of the Grand Paris Express is absolutely mouthwatering. It will link regional centers and desaturate the core of Paris. Amazing project.
@bertplank80113 жыл бұрын
There will of course be a hiatus on all this stuff as the banksters deliberately tip the world into another depression,followed by the obligatory war....followed by Israel invading Lebanon and forcing a massive refugee crisis pouring into Europe....
@ErwinPommel4 жыл бұрын
I like the off-script asides. Casual and personable.
@goosebump8014 жыл бұрын
I OFFER YOU THIS Wow, Simon gets *more* toned-down than this? I didn’t realize his dial had that low a setting.... Guess I’ve been watching too much Business Blaze 😂
@MikeDS494 жыл бұрын
Canadians: "Trains built by Bomb-bar-dee-yay"
@southpenn79734 жыл бұрын
correct
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
Bombardier is so awesome even us Americans are proud that they are made in our hat!
@MikeDS494 жыл бұрын
@@skizzik121 They do a lot of cool things, but they're having a rough go of it. The government have given them quite large loans to stay afloat. They had to sell off their turboprop division a while back. www.cbc.ca/news/business/bombardier-cutting-5000-jobs-q-series-1.4896753
@sc13384 жыл бұрын
Love that name and the C jet
@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM4 жыл бұрын
@@skizzik121 : Eh?
@georgemartin14364 жыл бұрын
Simon's newest channel, "People who have never been in my garage" is doing well..
@AndyHammer864 жыл бұрын
Now that's a channel a guy could get behind!! Heckin yes!
@Philippadrinkstea4 жыл бұрын
Having spent a year designing stations on Crossrail, it's pretty refreshing to hear people sounding enthusiastic about it 😂 beyond that, good fact checking, all nice and accurate 👍 that and don't believe the opening date, reckon there's a few more years of slip in that yet... but hopefully not full fiasco status, no missing smoke alarms here!!
@nicolasblume10464 жыл бұрын
OMG, that would be my dream job! What was your career building up to this and what exactly was your position?
@Philippadrinkstea4 жыл бұрын
@@nicolasblume1046 The work's still going on, so there's still time to go chase your dream! I worked as an ergonomist on Crossrail, so I did a lot of work on making sure that the stations work in terms of how people flow through them both on the passenger side and behind the scenes (i.e. making sure the signs make sense and are in the right place, making sure that the station is accessible for those in wheelchairs/those with limited sight, etc). I also did a lot of work on the design of all the back room offices and signalling centres, working out how to ensure that people could still do their day to day work whilst adhering to the security precautions. These days (and before I worked in railways) I design tanks for the army.
@heleneg5254 жыл бұрын
I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say negative things about London weather. However, I've spent a total of five weeks in London over three visits and it never -- and I mean never -- once rained. Over-cast on a few days, yes, but never rain. For the record, I actually preferred the over-cast days over the sunny ones (didn't have to constantly switch up my sunglasses for my regular ones). Whatever the weather, however, London is amazing.
@toker66644 жыл бұрын
The video of the machine placing the concrete blocks is so satisfying, it bores the ground then a attached train places the slabs its like a 3D jigsaw
@DuallDude4 жыл бұрын
OG Megaprojects fan here. Who’s with me!
@jackcallahan18484 жыл бұрын
Duall Inselman I believe anybody here would be comsidered an OG fan
@bartfoster13114 жыл бұрын
But are you a legendary legend?
@jennylawrenson17124 жыл бұрын
I'm a raid shadow OG legend
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
So you have been here for less than 2 months just like the rest of us! Awesome!!!
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
@Jack Myhre I have been subbed to top Tenz for about 5 years but somehow missed BB until about 6 months ago.... No clue how that happened
@angelitabecerra4 жыл бұрын
As an American I really, really appreciate the Imperial conversions. May I ask that you stick with one set order though? Some videos you do Imperial first then Metric and others you do Metric then Imperial. And in some videos you do it both ways. Makes it harder to listen and grasp the scope of what you're saying.
@Testarossazxc4 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate the fact that he always states both metric and imperial units, allows everyone to enjoy the content with the units they're comfortable with
@GenialHarryGrout4 жыл бұрын
What London needs next is Crossrail 2. Being from the UK, but not anywhere near London, I always jump with joy every time major projects for London are announced while the rest of the UK is forgotten. British sarcasm, the best in the World
@jimmyyu21844 жыл бұрын
For me, a Megaprojects episode that would be more interesting, would be how the original rail line was built, without modern machines that bore holes and how air was circulated in the tunnels. Or how mega structures of the ancient times, aqueducts of Roman times, Machu Picchu, Great Wall of China, the number of stones and how they were transported. Or even the generations that took to build European cathedrals. Those, were megaprojects.
@annoythedonkey4 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Yu is there documentation to tell us how they transported the stones?
@ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын
0:30 - Chapter 1 - A city pushing forward 4:10 - Chapter 2 - A new way to travel 5:35 - Chapter 3 - Victims of its success 7:20 - Chapter 4 - Original Purpose 8:45 - Chapter 5 - Construction 10:35 - Chapter 6 - Tunnels 14:25 - Chapter 7 - Trains 15:35 - Chapter 8 - Accidents & controversy 16:40 - Chapter 9 - Digging through history - Chapter 10 -
@dustin6283 жыл бұрын
Money spent on infrastructure is never wasted. We need it in the US so badly. Way to go London congrats you guys!
@Stuve7154 жыл бұрын
Incredible project. One of the new tunnels threads between two existing tunnels with less than 1 meter clearance on each side. 3:40: £18.25 billion, that's about $US22.82 billion. I might mention here that Doha, Qatar (pop 956,460) has just recently completed construction of its state of the art, fully automatic, driverless (which means you can stand up the front of the train where the driver would be) underground Metro system at a cost of $US36 billion. The project used 21 TBMs (Guinness record) and the final design of the stations was chosen by the Emir himself (gasp). A single fare is 2 Qatari Rials which is about 44p, and a day pass is 6 Qatari Rials which is about £1.32. There is a shuttle bus service going through the suburbs to pick you up and take you to your station. The shuttle bus service is free.
@TrollbaitMage4 жыл бұрын
When I lived there my oldest daughter was 5 and because of her wanted to see prime time we road the tube at rush hour.....it was horrible but she had fun. Kids are strange
@Jabber-ig3iw4 жыл бұрын
A to what? To the tower with you, it’s Zed.
@HyperactiveNeuron10 ай бұрын
I would love to see an update to this when the line is completed and fully open. Fascinating project. Shame it's so expensive otherwise systems like this could be built all over the world.
@K2edg4 жыл бұрын
You missed a Ronnie Barker sketch from Porridge .... "Mackay: for future reference. I just want to know how they disposed of the soil?? Fletch: They dug another tunnel and put the earth down there."
@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt27184 жыл бұрын
12:00 I wanna see a TBN go straight down and beat the Kola borehole record. Hope it has a strong reverse gear and engine when it's time for 1000 tons to climb back out straight up 10 miles.
@TheDragonaf14 жыл бұрын
I think my girlfriend said it the best. There's being British and being a Londoner; it's like two different worlds London is the only city where you feel like only London Exists.
@georgecunningham91754 жыл бұрын
Nice topic! One that has aroused my curiosity on a number of occasions, but I have never seemed to find the time to delve into it.................now I know all of the basics, and can surely find an opportunity to "dig" a bit deeper into the aspects tht most interest me. Thank you!
@nevadahamaker71494 жыл бұрын
Suggestion for another video: The replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle with a bored tunnel underneath the downtown area of the city. You could discuss the following: - The construction of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. - The damage to the viaduct caused by the Nisqually earthquake in 2001, as well as the collapse of the similarly designed Cypress Street Viaduct in San Francisco during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. - The construction of the tunnel itself, which was accomplished through the use of the world's largest earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine, nicknamed "Bertha". - The damage to Bertha that occurred partway through the project which required a "rescue pit" to be dug so that the cutterhead could be lifted out and repaired. - The demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct after the tunnel was completed, and the disposition of the rubble including the portion used to fill the Battery Street Tunnel which SR 99 used to pass through. The demolition of the old viaduct is especially interesting as it took place in a busy area and had to be done very carefully to avoid damage to nearby buildings.
@kellykbartram85694 жыл бұрын
"If you don't like it, then smash that dislike button." Come on, Simon, we LIKE your videos. You do a great job, on ALL of your channels that I've seen! I am VERY impressed with your level of research into the topic at hand, and your "humour" (British spelling; not American spelling [humor]). You are doing alright, Sir! I enjoy your videos, over MANY channels. USA, AZ, TUCSON 🤠👍
@horrorclose94624 жыл бұрын
How about an episode on ancient Rome's plumbing and road infrastructures. They started it all.
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
That would be a good idea but pretty done to death on KZfaq don't you think?
@bobingabout3 жыл бұрын
12:41 I remember the whole "Boaty McBoatface" thing, and then they named it "Sir David Attenborough". Though, apparently they named one of the submersibles that it carries "Boaty McBoatface".
@daviddunsmore1034 жыл бұрын
3:15 I love how you used a pre-1974 photo of Hawker Siddeley Tridents in the colours of BEA, or British European Airways! Wonderful slice of British aviation history there, so it is!
@kevinfreeman30984 жыл бұрын
Not sure how I feel about this... It's missing something, like a script slap!!
@calinsa38804 жыл бұрын
yey first comment! Simon do one about the Antonov 225 Myra please :D ! Keep up the good work!
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
That's that giant plane or is that the Caspian sea monster?
@jur4x4 жыл бұрын
@@skizzik121 Giant cargo plane.
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
@@jur4x ok that's what I was thinking, I did give it a quick look up...THAT THING IS GIGANTE!!!!
@ferrinprince6724 жыл бұрын
Another amazing underground mega project that not many know about is the Grasberg mining complex in Indonesia. Built in the tops of the mountains, near glaciers, but supplied from the lowlands at the beach. It’s was one of the largest open pit mines in the world and is one of the most productive underground mines ever built, using the caving mining method. There’s a lot to unpack, and it’s a fascinating history.
@twisted_void4 жыл бұрын
Used to work on Crossrail back in 2012-2014. One thing I learned was that original budget on projects like this is always way below a realistic estimation. So when someone says that project is over budget, reality is it is not really over budget. Construction companies try to make their bid for project cheapest possible. Barely at breakeven point. Way they make money is they bet on other companies running late on their part of work, thus delaying everyone else. Once there is a delay, a construction company claims a delay penalty to the government. Politicians in the meantime mostly care to get re-elected. It means that majority of projects are being awarded to the companies offering smallest estimation for construction costs in their bid in a project tender. It looks great to the electorate. Once the project runs over its budget, politicians simply blame construction companies that were never have been able to deliver a project under the original price, in the first place. Yet everyone is happy. Construction companies are making profit, people have their elected representatives threatening “greedy” companies and politicians are happy getting elected again.
@Zakster904 жыл бұрын
Video ideas: Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station Dubai Palm Island
@tomsparey13054 жыл бұрын
its ya boi Simon Whistler!
@eathenalbrecht50724 жыл бұрын
The outro music is absolutely killer! Keep up the good work Simon!
@BinkyBorky4 жыл бұрын
Trust me, I'm an englishman that lives in what used to be a soviet state. I drink beer and call it coffee. The coffee I drink is so strong I might as well have a beer afterwards. I am a successful businessman of the youtubes, and my office is nicer than my apartment. I cannot drive properly, but i'll be damned if I can't read a script. My name is Simon Whistler. And I am a KZfaqr.
@YungSucc4 жыл бұрын
the tube's horrific smell is characteristic, in a way
@SvenTviking4 жыл бұрын
It doesn’t really smell.
@YungSucc4 жыл бұрын
SvenTviking as someone who isn’t from anywhere near London, the piss smell & ps4-exhaust smell that hits the stations with windgusts is considered stinking
@CaptainCalculus4 жыл бұрын
I like that smell, brings back great memories
@kingjames48864 жыл бұрын
"people die mysteriously, the british blame "bad air"" some things never change...
@Deccra4 жыл бұрын
Haha😆
@stephenmcdonagh27954 жыл бұрын
Try disproving the miasma theory whilst hovering over an ebola victim...
@jamesmiller3804 жыл бұрын
Really liked that! Would actually love to see one on the New York City Subway. As a New York resident that uses it everyday, I know surprisingly little about its creation and I don’t think that I am the only one.
@neilgoodman28854 жыл бұрын
Mr. Whistler: You have done it again. Wonderful tour through history and a mega-project. Thank you. For some unknown reason to me, I am an Anglophile, and when I see stuff like this, I can only be fascinated. The archeology mentions are, of course the fascinating back story; real humans many years old -- what was their story, their loved ones, their daily lives? Thank you so much.
@shivambarke4 жыл бұрын
Mars Literally no one: Simon: Somewhere i used to live😂(side note)
@dmc25544 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad that you put your own maudlin face and overly-gesturing hands on screen so much more than actual content pictures. I'm now in love with you and want to go out on a date with you but I have one question for you first; when you take-off those impressive glasses of yours, does the beard come off too? I'm just sayin'.........
@ShawnC.W-King2 жыл бұрын
I always thought of St. Mary Axe as a big ass Faberge Egg, not so much as a "gherkin"🤣
@MichaelaBennison4 жыл бұрын
As a Londoner, I can relate so much to this video!
@Markle2k4 жыл бұрын
“THE MOST BADASS MIDDLE NAME... I INGDOM” Oops.
@cte4dota4 жыл бұрын
Well in Serbia Belgrade there is story about metro about 100 years lol and construction should start finally in 2020 and guess what corona time lol
@Awkward_Fox4 жыл бұрын
you should do a video on just tunnel boring machines! I would so enjoy a video on such a megamachne!
@fishea4 жыл бұрын
Mr. Whistler: if you enjoy extremely expensively over-budget, nearly-invisible-at-ground-level mass-transit megaprojects - I humbly submit New York City’s Second Avenue Subway line for your consideration. And indeed, I myself am partial to such things, especially those that were half-built and abandoned (like Cincinnati’s ghost subway system) or wholly impenetrable to Western eyes (like the Pyongyang Metro). I also would personally vote for megaprojects of the theoretical, high-concept nature, like e.g. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City idea, or La Ville Radieuse, the Radiant City Le Corbusier dreamed up. Just sayin. Fantastic work in any case, please do keep not stopping. Yes!
@henkdouma84484 жыл бұрын
"London is no longer an English city" - John Cleese. And 100% right he is!
@extrude224 жыл бұрын
That’s what happens when you colonise most of the planet. Most of the ethnic minorities in London come from countries the UK used to own.
@chrissimmonds37344 жыл бұрын
Informative, humorous, intelligent and entertaining.
@bfapple3 жыл бұрын
I literally work on on the railways and I’m still watching this. Because Simon Whistler.
@somedonkus694204 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a video on the Channel Tunnel, as well as the Dutch Delta Works :). I love how you keep a lot of humour in these videos instead if cutting it out.
Speaking of rail projects, you should do the Qinghai-Tibet railway one day. It’s truly a fascinating feat of engineering.
@janiheiskanen15934 жыл бұрын
Hey, There is this project in Finland called, Olkiluoto 3, nuclear powerplant. It might be great subject to this channel. Quick introduction to this. Construction started 2005, first planned to be online in 2009 --> delays --> now its only 11 years late. Now it should start electric production 2021
@philrabe9104 жыл бұрын
Yes, thank you, Simon. Those of us who wait for such things, have been waiting with baited breath for CR for some time, watching the engineering and archeology videos. You might like the history of the SF Bay Area BART system. They laid a lot of track in the initial 3 or 4 phases from the late 60's to sometime in the seventies. It totally shows in the architecture of the stations. Anyway, a bunch of unique stations, a seven mile immersed tube two tunnel section, The section through downtown San Francisco is layered under the underground streetcar stations for a couple miles and 7 combined stations. It used to be featured in a disaster ride at Universal studio tours and they included fictional BART line slung beneath the Golden gate bridge in a Star Trek film... We taxpayers are spending more extending the terminals of each of the lines than they did for the entire system in the beginning, fifty years ago. This decade the debate is over connecting the system at the south end of the Bay- while a new bay crossing is being mumbled about- needed to take the strain and system vulnerability off the solitary Transbay Tube. None of the north bay counties are presently served due to water crossings.
@dirkbonesteel4 жыл бұрын
Time Team from BBC4 has a number of great archeological digs in London. Worth watching, and available on youtube. Americans like me had no idea this show existed
@sophiecat21614 жыл бұрын
Looking snazzy Simon! Could you consider doing a bit about the old bits of London that have been found during demolition/construction and preserved? Also the foot tunnel built from Greenwich to Woolich? As a London born (now trendy East End lol) I don't miss the filth of a day seeing the sights via the tube or the ear popping tunnels :-)
@nomdeplume54464 жыл бұрын
I dunno if it’s mega enough, but I would like to suggest Indianapolis’ big dig for a mega projects video. The big dig is a tunnel being excavated in Indianapolis Indiana that will hold storm run off until it can be processed in the sewage treatment plant. Right now when a big storm rolls through the city when the sewage treatment plant gets overwhelmed it diverts directly into the White River that runs throughout the state.
@davyaldy764 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's what I think about a lot of roadworks, "This is crap right now but it's going to be awesome when it's done." Great video, keep up the excellent work.
@mikegallegos74 жыл бұрын
🤭 I also did as you and your friend. Cabbing through London, et al, was expensive but far more preferable ! The Cabbies were fabulous company and we had fabulous conversation about many, many things of London and history. Would London qualify as a Mega Project ? Luv the Brits !
@discogareth4 жыл бұрын
Is there anything this man doesn’t present on KZfaq?!
@kollerbrian3 жыл бұрын
The earliest that I will be free to see all the new construction will be in September. My bank note matures in September. This has great nostalgic and sentimental appeal. Start my planning today. Brian A Koller
@Huskie4 жыл бұрын
1 camera. Much better than before.
@R.E.A.L.I.T.Y3 жыл бұрын
Rich private land owners all along the line paid ZERO for it yet get instant 20-40% unearned windfall gains plus compounding gains forever. Tax ALL Land to recover the unpaid infrastructure rent owed to the public for their infrastructure. Cost to Taxpayer ZERO. Gains to Private Landowners still huge.
@DayZeroGaming4 жыл бұрын
You know what else is a Meja project? Watching all of Simon Whistler's content all the way through for the all important legendary watch hours
@WSDFirm2 жыл бұрын
Love this episode. Looking for an update.
@MarshFlyFightWin4 жыл бұрын
Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Great videos
@Happy_Shopper4 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon! Couldn't help but notice that there's a rowing machine in the background of the video. This got me thinking about a few things, and ummm.... I would LOVE to see a workout routine video on the channel in the future. Perhaps even an upload covering how you care for your beautiful beard. Xx
@alexb86724 жыл бұрын
Might be cool to do a video on the clean rivers project in Washington, DC. It's another big multi-billion dollar massive tunnel boring project under a city, but the tunnels are meant to hold sewer overflows during storms for treatment. The most interesting part is that they've managed to build many miles of tunnel so far without any budget or timeline issues. Seems pretty remarkable for this type of project
@alexb86724 жыл бұрын
Some more specifics: 18 miles of tunnel, tunnel diameter generally 23 feet, multiple tunnel boring machines used, construction sites all over the city where additional vertical shafts are drilled which range from 10 to over 60 feet in diameter (you can see some of them from google maps), tunnel depth is around 100 feet, plus the project includes installation of green infrastructure/enhanced pumping stations and various other mechanisms on the surface
@williamcchinworth73674 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed that presentation greatly. Yes, you've an engaging personality and a pretty face but would still like to see more pictures though. Other MP ideas... The Manhattan Project The Apollo Program and the Saturn V rocket The Afsluitdijk and Zuiderzee Works in the Netherlands The Thames Barrier The Colosseum (not history, just construction and operation) The Trans-Siberian Railway
@brisoatisuto97954 жыл бұрын
Pretty face......nigga what?😦
@ChickenLiver9114 жыл бұрын
Next video should be the construction of the London sewers! That was no easy feat in 1840, and it’s _super_ under appreciated.