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Here's a left field idea for you for a megaproject ... the Australian summer bushfire firefighting effort. Its a broad scope no doubt, but considering we're talking about an area the size of Syria was burned in the 2019-2020 fire season, its certainly a huge effort to try and contain these things. Some of the hazards to deal with are the sincere heat of the fires, the environmental heat (generally 40+ degrees Celsius, and the fact that the radiant heat of the fires is so hot it makes the sap in the trees flash boil causing the trees literally explode as the front approaches. The whole situation and scope if utterly Australian... AKA nuts!

could you cover very long bridges that were conceived but never built? probably would be better covered on side projects though.

Still hoping to see Denver International Airport! The second largest airport in the world by land (though tbh King Fahd shouldn’t count since it has a third of the runways as DIA!)). It’s one of the busiest in the world and has some of the more unique architecture and interior design among airports. There’s also a few interesting controversies around it, as well as a massive blue bronco we love to call “Bluecifer.” Seriously worth looking at! Did I copy/paste this from the last video? Maaaaaybe.

Do a video on the Hong Kong Airport now! A vast artificial island, massive terminal, a cargo megahub, and oh yeah, a road, railway and bridge to get to the mainland. Thanks Simon!

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You should do a video on the process of making all your videos and such. I feel like that’s a side project worthy video at this point

The train station was just an ice cube on top of a gargantuan iceberg. Hong Kong is now just China.

You should do one on CLYMB the 32 foot wide indoor skydiving tunnel just built in Abu Dhabi. By far the biggest one ever built!

When the Megaprojects notification comes in at work you excuse yourself, grab your headphones, and head to the restroom for 15 minutes.

Hey Simon! Could you do a video on the WinGD's 14RT-flex96C? It's the world's largest Diesel Engine for ships. Would be really fascinating!!

Hey Megaprojects, you should do an episode of Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop since its projected cost will be around 50 billion (probably/likely to balloon over) and take 2-3 decades to complete. Obviously there's controversy and history of the city's rail network. I can help with some information and point you in the right direction. Cheers!

Simon you know we love our choo choo trains!

Could you cover the operation to capture Berlin by the Red Army?

When are we going to find out that Simon is a Host and all of his channels are actually season 4 of West World?

You post on some many channels so often. It's great, but I'm just curious if you sleep.

Terrific report and very nice handling the political nature of some of the human condition.

Please do the Model T Ford!!!

Can you do a story on the 400 series highways in Ontario Canada. Please

Please do a video on the Chicago Exhibition!!

10:30 That's Futian Bus station. Around 7KM from Futian Railway station. That station almost completly underground.

The biggest difference between the immigration facilities in Hong Kong and similar facilities in the US/Canada and the EU is that in the Mainland section of the terminus, ALL Mainland law applies, rather than just immigration law. If you're arrested in the Mainland section, you're brought in front of a Shenzhen court, while if you're arrested in the US section of a Canadian international airport, you're brought in front of a Canadian court.

More about trains please.

Make a video on rotary engines please

Please do a video on the Dambusters raid and The Bouncing Bomb

Hong Kong was great back in the day

The whole concern of mainland infiltrating customs into Hong Kong has become a mute point.

Guess I'm watching this instead of 10 hours of hardbass

Do the Skyway Bridge in St. Pete Florida. Has death, intrigue, big engineering, etc.

Have you done a video on the pony express?

You should make a video on the USS Wiliam D. Porter. It's considered the US Navy's unlukiest ship. It almost caused the accidental death of President Roosevelt and a few other mishaps all in its first ever mission.

Majority of the people who visited hk wasn't here as a tourist. They come over to grocery shop, and leave the same day. That's why the locals are so against it because everyone knew the service will never make enough to balance the operating costs.

Please do a video about the north south divide in Cyprus

Interesting timing for you to post this. The same week the fastest train in the world goes into public operation, with a maximum speed of 600 kph. Also in China.

"We build this line, not to give you more freedoms, but to take them away from you!!!" :P

If only we had a decent rail network in Atlanta... so much sprawl and cars. MARTA sucks, I used it exclusively for a couple years

The bridge cost per car is about the same as what drivers pay between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island but is only paid coming off the island.

When are you going to do a Side Projects on your awesome shirts?

GBA is actually nine mega cities of Guangdong province: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Huizhou, and Zhaoqing as well as two special administrative regions Hong Kong and Macau.

Has @Megaprojects done a video on the Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope?

Do the Northrop YF-23

Hey you need to do a video about blue LED

That rail link says so much about the good and bad things about Hong Kong...

Bums me out to hear they got rid of the Star Ferry Terminal. I remember many trips through there during my stay on the Island back in 90'. Then again, I remember when Kashgar was still powered by Yak Oil lanterns and Camel caravans were still traveling the silk road and coming to the Bazzar once a month... all gone, and paved under. Sooo Sad

Most (but not all) flights departing Canada, Ireland, or Bermuda for the USA pre-clear Customs first in Canada at USA Immigration checkpoints

would you do videos on the Confederation Bridge and SNOLAB please?

Simon is now an extremely wealthy man, obviously financial products are now his sponsors. And fair play to him, crack on Simon you're a genius. Someone else writes something and you read it out, I actually love it. What a lad lol

The SR-99 tunnel in Seattle Washington definitely qualifies as a megaproject. The boring machine ran into a train.

Actually G306/G6538/G80/G100/G320/G6584 goes from Hong Kong to Guangzhou 46-51 minutes. And there are some other trains which go under an hour.

Speaking of trains, how about the Las Vegas monorail? The system that never went where people wanted (airport and downtown), casinos pushed against it off of its original route, relatively expensive to ride compared to other near by options, bankrupt twice and now owned by the Las Vegas convention center. That’s just some of it too

You have very talented writers.

How about a program on the Saigon subway system?

Nice vidoe

Huh, an hour and 18 minutes? I remember going from Guangzhou to Hong Kong by train in 2013 and it took about this much time - and this project was only opened in 2018. I guess they didn't really cut travel time at all, though to be fair, my route probably used the mainland section and only slowed down inside Hong Kong.

while rail projects that go over budget are exciting, why not do one on the HS1 (Channel Tunnel Rail Link)? It was a success, made the old victorian St Pancras station look brilliant and changed the Kings Cross area for the better. I was lucky enough to work on it and it was my best rail project ever.

Thanks for another entertaining video. Digging the wooly beard, mate.

Just a thought what about doing one on the fastest train in the world ?

Impressive megaproject 👍👍👍 That trains looks remarkably futuristic haha & I love it , looks like Japan now has a rival to derail - pun intended 😂😂

How about the California Water Project? Millions of people depend on it for both drinking water and water to irrigate farmland.

Time to trim that beard Billy Gibbons 😂😉

There is a current plan to add a maglev between Guangzhou and Hong Kong with times under 30 minutes. The maglev train was shown only yesterday. A future video for you?

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Formula 1 cars. Just the bonkers things that mechanics, engineers and drivers need to do to get these things to do a fast lap!

Guangzhou was the most important city for Chinese overseas trade since the middcenturies. It is tge reason why the British took "that rock" to make HK!

More Asian mega projects!

A-10 Thunderbolt II

just keep it away from Godzilla, Kong, and MechaGodzilla, lol.

in the uk , we cant even link high-speed rail line 1 to high-speed rail link 2.. that only goes to Birmingham !!

You could do dozens of these videos on China’s infrastructure projects alone. Probably hundreds. Do the Hong Kong Macao bridge or the Shenzhen Zhongshan link.

I'm not sure if this would be a Mega or a Geo, but, how about the U.S.-Mexico border located at San Ysidro, California? San Ysidro is the most southernmost community in San Diego, with a very unique character. One big business there is currency exchange, dollars for pesos and vice versa. One infamous incident in San Ysidro was the McDonald's Massacre that happened there in the 1970's. A very tragic event in an otherwise quiet community. I'm still hoping that there'll be a Mega about the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania steel industry.🤞

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Hi there, I'm kinda new to your channel(s) and *not* subscribed yet - but we're gettin' there. ;)

how about the "the Halifax explosion" on 6 December 1917 when two ships collided in the city's harbor, one of them a munitions ship loaded with explosives

ayy thats the video I suggested

train go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Good video 👍

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Could you do a video about the GTX (Great Train eXpress) in Seoul as well? It is a similarly large project and construction is already under way! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_eXpress

Interesting that countries other than the US have white elephant projects.

travel time is about 45 minutes quicker if you just get the train from Guangzhoudong station to Shenzhen, that's about an hour 20 minutes. Then from Lo Wu to Mong Kok along the Mong Kok East line is another 45 minutes. From Guangzhoudong to Hong Hum is over 2 1/2 hours. The customs at Hung Hom are no quicker than going through Shenzhen into HK anyway. And the express from Guangzhoudong to Hong Hum is far more expensive. Plus the duty free between Shenzhen and LoWu is far more extensive. I've taken both routes at least 100 times, I know what I prefer, fuck the express line. And that sped up footage that's used repeatedly is the corner of Nathan Rd and Peking rd just across the road from the Chunking Mansion in Tsim Sha Tsui: know it very well. And it takes far longer than 15 minutes to travel from HK to Shenzhen. Your fact checkers are pathetically inept. And that station you talk about in HK must be photoshopped because it simply doesn't exist and I've got personal photos of HK harbour from Dec. 2019 to prove it.

An hour and 18 minutes, if that was the U.K. it would be 5 hours!

Simon, comparing the size of somewhere to that of West Virginia means nothing to us Brits. It needs to be compared to the size of Wales!

you need life insurance, that is just a fact. actually.. no.

Wouldn't be surprises if the railway was just another part of China master plan on fully integrating HK into China and they did. They managed to secure HK against the scheduled 2049. Chinese government efficiency is really outstanding! 👌🏻

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i was wondering why there was Liberty Mutual advert before this video.😹

America we could have infrastructure like this but some of you playin

You should do SoFi stadium in Los Angeles as a Megaproject.

The Greater Bay Area with 11 major cities including Hongkong, Macao, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, has 4 lines of highspeed rail by 2021. Which is 4 more than the US has. And that number is planned to be double in the next decade

Chinese infrastructure planning is pretty reckless. Like when they build dams flood a lot of residential areas.

Simon seemed to avoid acknowledging Hongkong's current repression, that those earlier protests warned about.

Is part of St Pancras station subject to French laws?

If China and there police would back up there own ppl...during these protest!! Man that would be a game changer!!💯💯👍🙌🙌 I hope we see change over there!!💯

An hour and 18 minutes? So it goes less than 90km/h, it's not even high speed rail.

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yes I believe this was all part of the one state two system agreement at least they got the railroad they could have just ripped that up like they did the two system agreement

Im sure China is enjoying it.

I thought torturing protesters was Hong Kong's most expensive infrastructure project.