I’m surprised that worked haha!

I'm just gonna ride your coattails for upvotes like Steve McMillen here

How did that work?

I’m gonna try this out

This comment has 155 likes now. Coincidence?

Thank you so much!! 👍👍

Except he doesn't know how to say Oceania!

@@MossyTomb British accent. I love it. Sounds so sexy.

@@TheB1M beautiful work guys🤗

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Who’s stealing the money ?

Nomad who’s borrowing money from China?

Yes, democracies are inefficient. Any private citizen has the right to take their appeal to the courts. The government is not allowed to ride roughshod over the populace. This is why countries with an extremely strong and non-democratic central government can uproot entire segments of their population, taking away their property rights, and forcing their removal, all in the order to build new infrastructure. Yes, this might improve the country for the majority of its population, but in a mature democracy, the individual has retained their power to affect the government and its ability to force change on its citizens. Selfish maybe, but a good and strong democracy must and should recognize the individual rights of each of its citizens over the combined power of the group.

@@stevyd Well said, though I believe that half the problem lies in bureaucracy. Functioning and cost effective high speed rail systems exist across democratic European nations, e.g. the TGV in France or the ICE in Germany.

Adam Danilowicz China built that network in 10 years.

It's entirely debt though

Meanwhile Australia wastes 51 billion AUSTRALIAN dollars into our “fraudband” internet network.

@@MaxMax-zi8ys NBN is the worst Net work project that I know.

USA can do that too if they didn't piss trillions on dumb wars and giving tax cuts to rich and corporations 35 billion to benefit your country and people, or trillions to destroy other country and then train their joke army and build shitty but expensive infrastructure that you just destroyed?

@@LETSTALKENTERTAINMENT an investment fueled by bad debt and overspending. It's going to come back to haunt China.

Why not in your country?

Same

In india 15 cities under metro construction...

@@bidyutmanna3900 DONT BRING UR DIRTY ENDIA HERE

@@warhammer8403 ...that is not nice 🤔

@@warhammer8403 Not cool. India will develop as 3rd largest economy in decades.

@@fermizh IN DECADES AND DECADES ARE TOO LONG TO COME SO RELAX FOR NOW

China's OBOR has failed. They are rethinking on investing in this project.

No it hasn’t, it’s still successfully underway, not sure where you got that from

How many of those countries can pay back all those Chinese construction/infrastucture loans and refinanced loans now or 50 years from now? None of them can. They are more in debt to China than ever before. So what does China do instead to debt holders? Land grab as credit under the veiled disguise of "mutual cooperation and economic/commercial interests" such as the case of having and new Chinese naval base in Sri Lanka courtesy of the current govn't handing over a major port and also Sri Lankan sovereign territory leased into the next century to power project across the Indian Ocean and to also ensure unimpeded trade of Iranian oil. Anyone would decry this as *imperialism* if it were a western country doing this as it was in the past. In every aspect this should be called out as a new but old Chinese Imperialism. Let's also not lose sight that China will lose out to over a trillion or trillions of dollars if you include interest over the next century in the normal optic way of direct payment. The only other way to recoup investment is for China to take over more foriegn territory, foerign resources, and foreign industries. What is that called again? *IMPERIALISM*

@Alex Mercer Embargos and military projection are not the only means of imperialism you genius.

@@BagoPorkRinds Meh, I would not be surprised if some of the countries who received new bridges/ports suddenly went to the US and tried to play them against China, to avoid having to deal with too much fallout from not paying the loans, etc back. In any case, one has to give credit to China for being rather ambitious with their project at the very least.

looking at the map, the ambition is awe-inspiring.

connecting Europe and Africa through Asia

"since it is the only one that's covering an entire continent" Umm China covering entire continent? Lets check those revelations.... Asian continent 44,579,000 km2 China 9,596,961 km2 ... So FAR FAR FAAAR from entire continent. Russias Asian part is even bigger than whole of China about 13,100,000 km2 BTW China is as big as USA

I think he meant the OBOR plan covers the entire continent @@pseudo_anonim

@@pseudo_anonim If only you'd paid attention to the fact that I was referring to the belt and road initiative undertaken by China (which I mistakenly said covered just one continent when it very well extends even into Africa and Europe) before directing your pseudo-intellectual comment my way. Take several seats, thank you.

There's a few on Crossrail. I'm surprised the incredibly pointless HS2 line in the UK isn't on the list. £56 billion/$74 billion to be pissed away for no good reason.

Peter D Tbh I don’t know how you see it as incredibly pointless

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Come to South Asia pls

@@Wanboy kyu bheek mang raha hai be, usko aana hai toh aa jayega, uski marzi hai

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Suvari 225, it is now, California's train is now in limbo, the new governor doesn't want it.

Sadly America has neglected its infrastructure for three decades in favor of welfare, Medicare, and unfunded pensions. While places like China have put down over 10,000km of high speed rail and Asian nations are in the top 5 every year for best airports. Trains, subways, highways, apartment buildings, airports, bridges, and light rail are expanding across the world. What is America doing? Wasting billions on illegal aliens. Wasting billions on welfare. Wasting billions on destabilizing the Middle East while chasing some neo con dream of democracy by gun barrel. America needs to start its own one belt one road project. Now.

@@artcurious807 To be fair, USA's infrastructure began with the privatisation of the railroads for the sole purpose of freight trains. Commercial passenger trains can't get on the same lines because of those companies. That all started a couple hundred years ago.

@@artcurious807 You can't blame welfare or healthcare since every other developed country on the planet spends more of it's GDP on welfare and healthcare than the US does and none of our evil socialist countries have infrastructure problems. Maybe your infrastructure has been neglected in favour of having 20 aircraft carriers and a military budget that is larger than the next ten nations combined?

Rob Fraser "...military budget..." correct. I'll add "coddling the billionaire class" with massive tax breaks. Every other class in the US is expected to carry the costs of the military, education and infrastructure. The wealthiest enjoys the lowest top marginal tax rate in the world and are provided a secure investment opportunity: Treasury Bonds.

Yeah, but it only goes to Bankstown. Really stuffs things up further north and west. I'm hoping for a change of government this weekend, with a fresh look at Sydney's transport needs.

Its gonna suck for you trying to get sleep mate.

@@kp5602 Nah, you get used to the noise quickly.

more to come buddy 1. Sydney Metro West from City through Olympic Park to Parramatta/Westmead 2. Futher extention from Westmead towards Sydney 2nd Airport

And the Aerotropolis...don’t forget that Gerry.

The cali project was cancelled. Take a plane. They're faster than trains.

@@OrlandoStreets And vastly more polluting. And less efficient. Frankly, less sustainable, and less versatile. Railways are the single most effective method of mass transit in the world, and they have been for almost two centuries.

Not in the US. Our towns and cities are so far spread out from each other, building a high speed line between all of them would be inefficient. The Cali route was actually one of the only viable routes apart from upgrading the NE corridor.

@@Steve_McMillen I don't disagree with that, actually, I think high speed rail would be most worthwhile in the NE corridor, Cali, Texas and Florida, that's where the benefits of mass transit would be most deeply felt. But hyperloop is definitely something to consider, especially if it delivers the speeds people are suggesting.

@@OrlandoStreets It is not totally cancelled. The latest details at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

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Like... a new Portaloo or something?

@@josephharrison8354 Actually, just a couple years ago they created a "road" (really a path) from the coast to the South Pole. It needs to be cleared and maintained at the beginning of each summer season, so it could be considered an ongoing infrastructure project. www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-mcmurdo-south-pole-highway-the-world-s-most-southerly-road.html

The biggest infrastructure project happened in 1982 when Wilford Brimley dug a tunnel between his hut and the main buildings after deciding he didn't like being locked in his hut.

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I think our own Army Corps of Engineers gave our infrastructure a D (on an A-F scale) 🙈

@@earthandwind820: Haha, the Corps was the one that built the levee that crumbled in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

More like California needs to, everything runs over price & takes way longer than it should have! Example how quick Atlanta built Mercedes Benz Stadium at $1.5 Billion & it took California way longer to build SO-FI Stadium & ballooned to over $5 Billion! 🤯🤣

It may never get completed.

That doesn't make sense

Air travel in Europe is ridiculously cheap on those cattle carriers like Ryanair. You can go from Paris to Barcelona for like €15.

You've clearly never been to Europe. It's like £24 to fly from London to Berlin, £26 to Warsaw, £20 to Oslo on the 1st-8th May (next month). I just chose them dates randomly, and it definitely is cheaper if you buy further in advance. I paid £13 return to fly to Cologne.

I'm surprised the Norwegian Highway project wasn't the one for Europe, seems to be larger then the british one at least?

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Agreed. No other place would do something as stupid as this.

The company I work for is the lead consultant :3 Good stuff. Hope in the future, I get to work on it in some structural scope.

Was it approved?

@@dxelson they're still discussing but it's likely it's going to happen since Carrie lam said it must happen

Wow, sounds risky since the sea level is going to go up due to 'climate change'... Oh wait, no it isn't really, is it?

Agreed. I'd enjoy a standalone feature on the Chuo Shinkansen on this channel. The Chuo Shinkansen is absolutely nuts for the people that aren't aware of it. 90% of the alignment will be in tunnels. The line is 177 miles, Tokyo Shinagawa Station to Nagoya Station in 40 minutes on the express service (AKA speeding by the 4 intermediate stations). For reference, a flight from Nagoya Chubu Centrair to Tokyo's Haneda Airport is listed at 1 hr. The maglev becomes yet more attractive when considering the train stations are in the urban core and the airports are further away (closer to more destinations, better transit connections). On top of that, yeah the flight is 1 hr but how much additional time is spent on boarding, security, runway taxiing and baggage claim compared to the train? Easily more than the time spent in the air.

I believe space expansion is where humanity's progressing. It's actually better than land infrastructure projects since it allows humanity to survive longer by dispersing populations beyond earth instead of simply making things more convenient.

@@adrianatgaming8640 yes

You’re welcome 😉

Karthik Narayanan yes u right . India refused being the part of project . Which china are being annoyed and quiet happy at same time . Complex feeling

Pretty sure this is just stock footage. I don't they have the budget to film in six contients for an eight minute video.

Seems there are many people feeling that architectural/constructional erection. Glad.

@@MrGioMadrid What do you mean?

@@MrGioMadrid no BRICS is not for coloniser

Do u mean IC countries? Maybe RIC...

@@MrGioMadrid It's stands for major developing economies such as brazil, russia, india, china and south africa(was later added as it used to be bric)

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me too

Duterte's Build Build Build initiative is pretty ambitious. Thousands of kilometers of expressways and railways plus linking all major Philippine islands with bridges. Not to mention dozens of new airports and seaports.

What is the largest project there?

@@gingerteddy618 The most ambitious infrastructure project in the Philippines currently being implemented is the Trans-Visayas Friendship bridges. It is a series of mega bridges that will connect all major islands of the Philippines.

I am very sorry, all the biggest infrastructure projects are in China, such as the largest port, the longest sea-crossing bridge, the longest tunnel, the largest high-speed rail, the largest airport and so on

@@medviation Stop wasting money with large projects while most Pinoys still suffering from poverty..

Haha - you're welcome 😉Thanks SO much for being a member - it's great to see your badge next to your name!!

Lots of people to move about nowadays!

A geographically and financially larger infrastructure project in Oceana is Australia's National Broadband Network (nbn for short). The Sydney Metro rail project mentioned is set to cost AU$20.8b, while the nationwide nbn is expected to cost around AU$50.

Still a transport initiative though I suppose, transporting packets 🤔

WOW. Thank you so much!!

only Preparity work has been done on HS2 so far, the official infrastructure work has yet to start. With Costs ballooning to well over 100 Billion Pounds its highly likley this project will be scaled back significantly or even pulled all together, which would be short sighted in my view.

Aditya Tripathi Damn that's stagerring. Gotta look into that.

@@gearzone2611 plz go ahead nd chck it out.

we'll see that kid...!! ASAT was impossible but it happened.. Worlds largest solar power plant is built in INDIA.. similarly i can count various things which happened in INDIA.. AND this is the mother of all mega projects so i strongly believe it has to happen.

@Robert L bro bullet train project time line is till 2022. nd y not it will be constructed as it is already is process ..nd the other main factor is that all the investment is being made by japan. just google bullet train status in INDIA.

@Robert L .... lol don't day dream 😂😂😂😂

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seriously WTF? do Australians really pronounce it like that?

Dias Amreé No we do not

Ghastly.

@@DA-bm2mj No, not even close.

Lol...do you know Kenya sgr has failed.... Chinese use that crappy metal as an avenue to hang unreasonable wicked debt on the indebted colony of Kenya....

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Yeah,and china has a population of 1.4 billion people that get paid 10 times less then USA workers while the communist party slave masters run the show and get alot richer in comparison with the inequity in the USA.TRUE

Carnage Dogg Think about spending less money for more infrastructures, why not? Why would you prefer paying 40% of taxes for nothing in US?

The construction is staggering in China but there’s a lot of ghost towns, zombie companies, corruption and waste. And the quality of both air and construction can be lacking in some areas to say the least. That being said, China is the future of Asia. It’s population and economy is too big to ignore.

Alex Mercer The vast corruption, poor construction standards and ghost cities in China are well documented. With the economy slowing, the impact of that will all become increasing significant.

Art Curious No Ghost towns exists, it’s depends if you wanted to believe that . When some youtuber try to film brand new empty buildings , it already sold out . A lot of rich people bought them but have never lived there.

poortaiwanese No, ghost cities primarily exist due to Chinese land ownership rules and a property price bubble which incentivise local authorities to build even when no demand. I’m sure the US has some poor quality infrastructure as well - I don’t live there.

khris China company built the metro for India

@@weizhang2834 As far as I know, China only supplied the wagon's for one of the many lines currently operational

gde1989 incorrectly, not wrong

Must be British pronunciation.

@@RaymondHng No, it's just crazy.

RaymondHng no he just pronounced it incorrectly

In the end of time California high speed rail is a complete flop, it would cost an unimaginable amount of money for us to come even close to having as good of a rail network as china

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@@ArchYeomans We need to quit fighting wars for other nations and focus on our own interests. We must not allow our America to become a puppet of Nato!

@@daraptor5281 Dude we are THE DE FACTO HEAD of NATO.

@@souvikrc4499 I believe he means puppet of the rest of NATO.