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0:00 World's Most Useless Megaprojects
0:30 Interstate H-3, USA Hawaii
3:09 Ciudad Real Central Airport, Spain
6:14 Naypyidaw, Myanmar
9:28 Forest City, Malaysia
13:02 Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
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I was being constructed for 9 months and was nurtured for 7 years and i think i can be part of this list.
ouch
@@ashleyk9827 it wasn't that much of a megaproject at all
Ha ha
You are 7 years old??
@@ofentsemusi1509 I think the point is their parents stopped nurturing him after age 7
Don't forget literally anything that the Saudi Royal family builds.
They are asking about projects, not about home which was built by bill gates or any other billionaire
Lol
Jealousy kills 🤣🤣
@@saeedalamri1975 Hunger kills
U mad bro
As someone who lives in the Andromeda Galaxy, I can confidently tell you that the H3 highway in Hawaii is far from useless.
Beluga whale I'm krill dude and yeah wot an amazing feat of construction kudos
Can't not confirm that from the Trappist system of the milky way!!! "From space, we drop on heads"
This sounds fine. I live in a city that just spent 20 years of planning, over 5 years of construction, and 500mio US$ of taxpayer money to „cover“ the stunning length of 840m (0.5 miles) of an existing highway (Not a new highway, just covering an existing one with two walls and a flat roof, and no, the bildung material is not gold, it‘s concrete)
I had to move Nay Pyi Taw since the beginning of establishment for my mom sake . She was one of hundreds of engineers involved in that project .I found that most Burmese are not very fond of Nay Pyi Taw because it looks boring and the atmosphere is dry and spooky than former capital city . But here without any political affairs and the background situations, I can say that the structures and concepts established in the city are very well founded. Although a lot of things are still needed, especially transportation, education institudes, economic organizations from every aspects. I guess introverts would love that place for the atmosphere is really quiet and private , unless you are in the market :)
Î hope to live there in ten years and i hope its the same
Been there before for a few months. Everything & every place is far from each other. Supermarkets are far from the housings, hospitals are in separate zone, offices are pretty far & not easily accessible from most places. Unless you have your own vehicle, it's hard to live. I mean, even introverts need to have basic necessities in daily life to function
@@LakeofMarimo that's why they use motorcycles there. I know it's a long way to go from one place to another, but as far as I know markets have their own places according to where the residents live. Although not the VIP quarters. However, the transportation is utterly need to become well-developed public system.
As someone who lives in Hawaii, I can say the H-3 is far from "useless". It's the chosen route for most people to get from one side of the island to the other.
Really hahaha I have minimal knowledge of Hawaii but that’s what I thought seeing the route it takes. Is it frowned upon even with that
It is the best route to get to other side of the island. Takes way to long to go east than north or west than north to do the same thing. The speaker sounds like he never drove on this highway.
@@YukarioMashimato I’m dead 💀
It's a beautiful ride. Just gorgeous. My gf pokes me to make sure I don't miss the view when she drives us through (on our way to Boots and Kimo's for macadamia nut pancakes; ah, memories).
Even as someone who doesn't live there, I could straight up see in the drone footage that PLENTY of people are using that highway.
I'm currently living in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. 80% of the small population of Naypyitaw, including me, live in the urbanized areas which were villages about 500 years ago. More than 90% of the city were teak forests before 2000. Naypyitaw is six times larger than the city of New York. Now, Myanmar is in a military coup, and more people have left the capital to hide in forests in remote mountainous areas, as we are under high risk for being arrested by the military. After we win this revolution, we warmly welcome you all to pay a visit to Myanmar.
Wow! stay safe!! God Bless you ✝️
The world is with the people of Myanmar! ✊🏽
Wish you best from siberia
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Risk management! Should apply in every trading plan before entering a position.
as someone who has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, all my life, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the H-3 is far from useless
Unfortunatly Brazil have some a lot, even Rio de Janeiro. The second levels of the subway stations have part of it. and then, the PUC-RIO station and the line4. Things that need on the city, and should be made, but all this constructions weren't finished.
Pretty sure he's referring to the intention the highway was built for now that the main anchorage for the Pacific fleet has been moved to San Diego and Peral Harbor isn't as major of a base as it used to be having an interstate that connects the naval base to the marine air station is pretty useless as we all know if another world war was to break out it would be faught with mainly nuclear arms
As someone who has never stepped out of my house in a decade, let alone ever been to Hawaii, I can confirm interstate H-3 is “far from useless”
Hawai’i Resident and Native Hawaiian here, no idea where you got the “cursed” thing from, the only superstition we have is taking pork over that mountain for reasons relating to cultural deities. But the H-3 is definitely useful. It’s the fastest way from the east side to downtown Honolulu and the airport. Going right down the middle of the island is definitely faster than going around; that being said, the military definitely uses it. Like the video points out, it leads from MCAS K-Bay to Pearl Harbor, that’s still super useful; the national guard uses it all the time! Just recently it was used during our massive surge testing for Covid-19.
I dont even need to live in Hawaii to know the H3 should not have been on this list. As I was watching I was waiting to see a empty highway or a reason why it was useless as in not used. But by the end all they seemed to come up with was how much it cost.
Yeah, Looks like they just wanted something they thought was “Controversial” to add to their list “The Natives”, “The Environment”… You can see from the video it’s obviously used.
Not a native Hawaiian but I lived on MCBH (MCAS) as a kid for 2 years - I deadass don’t understand it either. I remember the H3 being being nearly the only way my family would get to the other side of the island. We used it so much I used to wish we’d take the Likelike just so I could see more of the island. I do remember one time we went a long way all the way around the island after a BSA event over near Waimea Valley.
Was just about to say this lol this guy didn't do much research
They should have swapped out H-3 with our rail system 😂
Imagine building an entire city in secret and hoping it just flourishes. What were they thinking?
🧠...💭"we will build this, we hope this flourishes"
MONKAS
The best foolishness so far
If you build it, they will come The mastermind behind the build clearly watched field of dreams one to many times 🤷♂️😂
m y a n m a r
As an alien from a planet in the far off reaches of reality itself who has never set foot on Earth's crust I can absolutely assure you that the H3 is far from useless.
As somebody who has never set foot on the Hawaian soil I can definitely assure you that the H3 is far from useless.
These gigantic, nearly empty roads would make a perfect setting for a zombie apocalypse film.
Or AI overtaking. The foliage growing over and crumbling is on point.
Nice copy paste
Wym just run them over lol
@@NicholasNRG like that one scene of the walking dead lmao
@@safsaf99 imagine being a kid lol
I used to drive H3 every day to get to work, not sure how it’s useless it’s used every single day lol. The views even while it rains are beautiful, the mountains are so tall they make their own waterfalls. Definitely the most beautiful drive I’ve ever been on
I think I want to swap commutes
“Even while it rains”? The route is especially great when it rains, little waterfalls form all over the place in the ridges of the mountains, we used to drive through it in the rainy season and count all the waterfalls on the way to school
because it costs too much per KM
@@ngounchantha792 yeah but this list is for "useless" projects not "over budget"
Useless to the locals.
As someone who studied in Laie but sometimes stays in her aunt in Kapolei (I’m originally from the Philippines), interstate H3 is actually useful as it provides an alternate way for me and my aunt to go to Laie without passing through Honolulu
I love how all the comments are roasting this guy for not actually doing his research when it came to H3
As a Kānaka Maoli and someone who grew up in Hawaiʻi, the H3 is the furthest thing from being a "useless megaproject." It is such a vital route to get from the North side of the island to Central , East, and West Oahu.
Title's a clickbait for real. 20m views now 😂
Let alone being my fav place in TDU when I was a kid xD
To add to your point: I used to live in Hawai'i for 5 years, the H3 was pretty backed up just like the rest of the state.
I was literally stuck in traffic yesterday on the H3
My buddy moved to Oahu and rented a convertible. My favorite memories are coming down off acid and riding the H3 until it started sprinkling out of nowhere. Still great highway but the traffic was awful
As someone who doesn’t live in Hawaii, I can tell you by the comments that H3 is far from useless.
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As someone who doesn't read the comments, I can assure you that the H3 is a ghost town
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@@shreyamurthy8250 ur pretty
You can tell from just looking at the image the video shows. That highway is filled with cars.
Forest City is actually a nice project itself. It's functional and proving development on reclaimed lands totally possible. The problem is not the engineering itself but geo political struggle and the price tag. SG-Forest City trip has become the most popular roadbike event in most SG-Malaysia cycling clubs.
When u build a city at a strategic location focussed entirely on foreigners its much harder to convince locals to support such a project.
Malaysia has a future as a tourist destination..when it stops allowing religion to stiffle its investment in prosperity for its people...religious and secular.
it is not related to religion at all. dont you get china wanted to do with forest city? you can learn on the internet. they wanted to built safe heaven for chinese elite in foreign country@@AngelWingzzz
I'm Hawaiian, have never once heard of H3 being cursed. But not only is the H3 used often, you can literally see plenty of cars using it in the video. How is it useless?
I think they just wanted to add a mega project for the sake of it
@@sullya6967 precisely, but coming up with things makes the rest of the list questionable lol
They answer that question right in the video Right before they moved on to the next useless thing
For views he makes such video
Person that post is just a person without knowledge. He/she probably just read it online and post it. Dumb people believing anything online.
I lived in Hawaii. The H3 is an extremely busy highway, often bumper to bumper during rush hour. I never heard of anyone not using it that lived there. And it is the fastest way from the east side to Honolulu (H3 to H1) unless the Pali is empty. Far from useless.
The most useless project is the United States government
@@ultraloyalservant2felineov41 on god
@@ultraloyalservant2felineov41 true that my furry friend
but does the h3 connect directly to the h1 or no?
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As someone who hasn’t even watched this video yet, yes I’m sure the H3 in Hawaii isn’t useless
As someone who lives on Oahu, I think that the H3 is a vital part of the island. It is definitely useful
Now say that in Hawaiian and everyone will believe you Internet translator in your disposal.
The problem with Naypyidaw is that it was mostly built in secret in the middle of nowhere. If they hadn't done that then more companies would have tried to invest and stuff. Building your capital in secrecy is idiocy.
As a pesorn who is from Myanmar i can confirm that naypyitaw is stlill empty and not that populated.
Myanmar Policies 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Or maybe they just didn't want to share the "profit" with those companies and businessmen?
@@zypA13510 come on lets be real would you even invest in that
I do like living in Naypyidaw, pure silence, solitude and tranquility, the air is fresh, the roads are always empty and well lit at night but the problem is traveling great distance to a nearest supermarket and basically a quite place vibes
I have been there. It actually took two hours on the road to go to a restaurant from our hotel. Mind you that the road was empty 🙂
is it a safe place to live? I mean from gangs and such?
That's so awesome. It's good there is positive things for living there. Thank you so very much for sharing yr story.
More people, more problems... the less people the better esp in these modern times
More people, more problems... the less people the better esp in these modern times
As someone who lives in Betelgeuse, I can vouch for H3 highway being far from useless. I have used it a countless times from Salt Lake, Pear Harbor area to quickly go the North Shore. It’s one of the most scenic highways in the whole of USA.
Cq
As someone who's never set foot outside Africa, I can tell you with confidence that H-3 is far from useless
The H3 is incredibly useful. Even though it doesn't connect to downtown Honolulu, it is one of the most efficient (and scenic) ways to cross from mid-southern to northeastern Oahu.
Yeah but it’s a racist highway
Stop holding
@@701delbronx8 yes and cursed.
Yea I think the natives preferd it being build on the ground clearing more forest
@@701delbronx8 i feel like its not racist, the ppl who made it dont have hearts and have so much money they just want revenue
In Spain we also have more semi-abandoned airports such as Castellón, the most expensive roundabout in Europe that was open for 3 months and a formula 1 track that is now used to walk the dog
@haris 318ti hahahahha
What track are you talking about!?
@@gato69evo Valencia Street \ Harbour circuit i would guess
@@gato69evo Valencia Street Circuit
Max max max super super max max
It is a disaster how ineptly resources are wasted. It's just incredible. The main thing is that people learn from this and do not repeat it again.
As someone who is the H-3 I can assure you, I am far from useless.
"Most Useless Megaprojects in the World" *Shows a bridge with numerous cars driving back and forth across it.*
Cant expect much from these type of youtube videos
You really cant expect much when this kind of videos is similar to top 10 slow cars video that just shows the fastest car in the world.
Lol
Narrator was pretty clear who it's useless for. I'd say being useless for your native population certainly qualifies.
@@opx4real not really, if it has uses... Not useless... Are cars useless since so many people cant drive?
"H3 is the most useless highway ever built." (Shows hundreds of cars driving on it in a matter of seconds)
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.. Everything in Hawaii is 'very expensive.. Everything.. US 'fiat, printed and hosed around by the Liberal Left, as if an endlessly flowing ocean of currency, is what is dropping in value..;}
I enjoy driving on it.
More like, as useless as this video.
@@blogengeezer4507 Trump lost . get over it . and the H3 is used A LOT
As someone who lives in Nepal (don't know even where Hawaii is), I can absolutely ensure you that the H3 is far from useless.
If I had $1 every time Top Gear has featured a useless megaproject, I'd have $2. It's not a lot, but it's weird that it has happened twice.
Parry the platypus?!!
Lol
My exact thought when I saw these, oh the top gear nostalgia
You just need to charge more per useless Megaproject. They all appear to have $Billions spare....
@@tsubadaikhan6332 ll.
According to my parents I'm their most useless megaproject.
Im sorry to hear that
Oooff
Same 🥲
except you were just a mini project
Painful.
as someone who's seen a highway before and cannot imagine a deserted highway, i can confirm that the H3 highway in Hawaii is far from useless and is actually very busy.
As someone who doesn’t live in Hawaii, I can tell you by the comments that H3 is far from useless. It's the chosen route for most people to get from one side of the island to the other.
What’s incredible about the Myanmar capital is that it seems like it was ACTUALLY FINISHED?!? For a project like that, in a country like that, with zero promised fruit currently beared from the project.. I find it almost an inspiring miracle it was actually pulled off, seen through to completion, and is just sitting there waiting for the rest of the country to catch up with it, and not like 99% of mega projects where the country is waiting for IT and will be for eternity.
"this highway is useless" *shows highway with a ton of cars driving on it*
One car can weigh over a ton.🙂
@@artisticyeti22 He understood it well enough to make a joke about it.
Exactly
Tons of cars
A "s#itload" of cars driving on it!
The Hawaiian highway is amazing I drove on it you really don't notice the beauty until we pulled off it at a stop. I looked back and seen it properly and my mind was blown.
As someone born in the New Jersey Turnpike’s Sara Barton rest area I have watched Hawaii 5-0 since I made my grand appearance in this world and I can tell you the Hawaii H-3 is far from useless.
Not as useless as your bloodline
😂😂😂😂😂
@@jbone4119 Your mother and sister would disagree.
The airport would make sense if they built a fast train straight to Madrid. Such journey could take about 45-50 minutes. Better than driving a car and parking. Something like train from London Liverpool to Stansted.
A fast train should have been built at the same time they were building the airport. I don't understand why the group/s behind the construction of the massive airport did not have the foresight, considering the location. I understand that there is a known company in Spain who is into speed trains. It seemed they were just focused on how big the area and how many it will accommodate but forgot the passengers who will ride the planes and the consumers who will occupy the space, as well as the people's convenience whom they are building the project for in the first place.
Government could have acquired this property with fair price and transform it into air force base camp or something...
Spanish train driver here. See the railway line at 3:33? That's the Madrid-Córdoba-Sevilla AVE high-speed line, connecting these cities plus Puertollano and Ciudad Real itself at 300 km/h. The building connecting the airport terminal to the vicinity of the tracks, was planned to serve as a way for passengers to easily move between the terminal and a would-be train station. Connection time to Madrid from there is under 1 hour.
yes your idea is for new owner who buy it in 15000 $. Anyway corona is blessing for new owner. this airport is for parking now.
HSR is useless when considering that the cost of running it is much more than it would ever make from ticketsales, HSR is not the solution, its another problem in an ov itself.
I can attest to the first mega project (H-3 Hawaii) actually being very useful ! People in Hawaii always use that interstate Highway and the cutoffs lead to places quicker than the other Highways we have. Especially if you live in the windward side.
Why is there an "interstate" in Hawaii?
@@callaghanbrakepads6823 yeah that I’m not even sure why … but addressing the persons claim about it not being useful is not true. As far as it being an interstate does not make sense 🤷🏻♀️
I lived there from 2004 to 2007 and the H3 was crazy busy. I knew lots of locals that used it too. The people that didn't use H3 are probably the same people that don't drive to Kailua down the Pali Hwy with pork in the car. I only ever met like 2 or 3 people like that.
consider how much environmental damage can be done by building the same road, not on concrete pylons, but hugging the mountain side, as it is done in most Mexican highways. You go round one side and round the other side, ad nauseam, and takes you 4 hours to go 150 miles. Not to count the amount of rock needed to be blasted off the mountainside. Watching Hawaii 5-0, I saw the road and showed to friends so they see what can be accomplished thinking outside the box
@@callaghanbrakepads6823 it probably refers to mental states, lol. It takes you from stress to serenity. 😊
As someone who never visited Hawaii, I can confirm that H3 is "far from useless"
Thank you for these little unwanted gems. I would like to see two of them work out... I live in USA and am too old to travel but in my heart I can envision: Naypyidaw, Myanmar and Forest City Malaysia to progress into viable cities... their plans are beautiful... God bless!
I live in Hawaii and I just took the H3 Interstate just a couple hours ago. It actually is useful because it cuts time by an hour to get from Honolulu to the other side of the island. That interstate is packed everyday.
why wouldn't you take the 61 or 63?
H3 better
@@zeffery101 Because H3 is closer to people who live on the west side or north west part of the island
not the reasoning behind it being deemed useless... open your mind lol
Still don’t know why it’s called an interstate. Call me pedantic, but it’s an intrastate
#6 that massive skyscraper in my Minecraft world that took me a year to build and I ended up staying in my original tiny starter base because I didn't feel like moving all my storage chests to it.
Lol
How do you have the patience to build a skyscraper for a year but not the patience to move your chests
@@kaisersoser5918 Have you ever moved storage chests before?
True its hard to move storages
Just use shulker boxes
Bro forget to include the house that I built for my ex 💀
LOL
As someone that used to love watching Hawaii 5-0, with Jack Lord as Steve Mcgarrett, I can honestly say that the H-3 is far from useless.
I use the H-3 highway almost every week and it’s far from useless. For the ppl who live on the west side of the island that wanna go to the east side we all use the H-3 because it’s more convenient and much quicker route especially with how bad traffic can be here
How fast do u drive there? 250km/h?
@@countertop5952 speed limit on the H-3 showed 55mph unless that was just some extra clip
@@countertop5952 I usually go 60mph not sure what that is in Km
Yeah i was wondering why that’s on this
I figured as much. In the video you see quite a bit of traffic... so it stands to reason it serves a purpose.
Watching this makes me feel better when I do projects for school that I dont intend to be useless
Love ur pfp
Kokoro yabe!
Stop thinking like that,you are useless
peace🚫
My last 3 years projects now are in garbage😀
Top Gear will always find anything that's useless.. it's only a matter of time until they find me
“Do you believe the US wasted 17 billion dollars on a mega projects that was never even used?” Every US taxpayer: “Yes”
you could make an entire series of documentaries out of the useless projects the brazilian government did during the 2014 world cup and 2016 olympics. All the projects were gigantic, grossly over budget and are now mostly abandoned.
Brazil shouldn't have hosted those tbh
This could be great idea for Johnny Harris channel
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It's not just Brazil, that happens to nearly every Olympic park. The Olympics are a huge scam
@@legolasgreenleaf6341 he already did one with Greece's failure projects of the Olympics and nailed it
Pretty sure I drove that highway plenty of times in Test Drive Unlimited, so it definitely got some use.
I would drive on it all the time! I would love to drive it in real life one day
Your not on the island of Hawaii in TD:U It begins with an O, it's in the Hawaiian group of islands tho
That game was legendary
Frankly, when I started watching I was like: Mmhh we should have a racing game in Hawaii, then I realized we had TDU, amazing game!
@@Guitar-Dog I think he means Test drive unlimited 2, you start on Ibiza and the second island in the game is Hawaii
WOW! This is a very informative video that I enjoyed very much!!!
I been at forest city in Malaysia, this mega project was not fail due to covid pandemic. The project still ongoing.
Just some friendly assistance as I am assuming English is not your first language... it would be written out as "I HAVE been TO Forest City in Malaysia. This mega project DIDN'T fail BECAUSE of the pandemic. The project IS still ongoing. 🙂
I find these large out of use spaces extremely satisfying to visit. Like, you have ALL THAT SPACE just for yourself.
Yes very satisfying and eerie at the same time.
All that destroyed nature…
@@gargarosking9165 agree
Me in my car: *I AM SPEED*
@@gargarosking9165 More nature gets destroyed in a month for agricultural purposes than all of these projects destroyed in total. And as the author said, the city will likely be used in the future, as the population continues to grow. So focus your attention on real problems to the environment, then a city that will be a home for people.
I'm hawaiian was born and raised in hawaii and still live here. No body sees the H-3 as a problem and it's super useful. There's only 4 ways you can get over or around the mountain range this freeway goes through. You can go around the whole island to the east, cut through a high hill and go around on the north west side, or take H-3 or the Wilson tunnel. The latter options are like 3 times faster because your not going through the big tourist spots like North shore and you don't have to drive all the way to Hawaii Kai and back around. All the native Hawaiians I know including myself use H-3 and almost nobody complains about it.
bitterness disappears in time when culture dissipates. That's what happens everywhere. We as a society tend to dislike any changes in our community until it starts to ease our way of life.
Are you native Hawaiian? Meaning, we’re your great great grandparents born there?
@@timprescott4634 does it really matter bruh?
@@kurodo9926 When you level the claim that you were “born and raised” in Hawaii and therefore get to speak for ALL Hawaiians then , yes, I’d say it matters.
@@timprescott4634 again, does that really matter? You don't need to be native Hawaiian to speak for generally agreed opinion. Bruh
The Hawaiian highway was used in a few TV shows, that in itself makes you want to travel it, I know I would if I make it to Hawaii ❤
As someone who lives on O'ahu, I can tell you that the H-3 is far from useless and connects big population centers like Pearl City and Aiea to Kaneohe and Kailua and has a huge part in alleviating the already bad traffic in O'ahu
Yeah, saw an awful lot of traffic on that "unused" road!
No doubt…I live in PC, and I’d rather drive through Halawa to Kailua than via Likelike or Pali.
It’s haunted stop using it
Yeah when I went to Hawaii it was definitely not unused. But it was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen
same dont know what this clown is talking about
2:41 hi, native hawaiian here. i'm curious where this information came from. initial cultural opposition to the project died out long ago, and seems to exist more at an administrative level than in the daily lives of native hawaiians. so i'm not sure where "...a majority of whom refuse to use the H3 to this day" ever came from. even activists still need to drive to work. or the beach. i'm also not sure what is meant by "certain native groups." there's only one native group. to the contrary, the H3 is known as a godsend to anyone on wheels. being farther from town, less prone to traffic jams, and more accessible via the main freeway than the other two tunnel routes (pali and likelike), makes it a critical alternate for anyone who needs to cross the mountain. this would be made apparent with even the most brief look at traffic behavior (or a map) on this route, but is not mentioned in this video. all military commands on the island know this as well, which is why it's also heavily used by army and marine training convoys.
you put together some great footage though.
Yeah I was wondering about that, since the video shows a lot of traffic on.
@@geekdiggy I read the H-3 Wikipedia article and I think most of his information probably comes from there. The article makes a bigger deal about opposition to the H-3 than I'm currently led to believe.
@@tangterry4078 Well wikipedia is incredibly biased and is only a good source for non opinionated subjects like math
I think the video's argument is cost vs return on investment ....
I remember riding down that highway in Hawaii as a young child. My stepfather was stationed on Kanyo and Marine Corps base and we used to take that highway all the time it went directly through the mountain and I don’t remember a lot of things from when I was younger but I do remember that is one of the most beautiful places to ever be. There’s even little carriage rides to go up the sides of the mountains, all the way to the top with little buggies that people ride in
Can I add to your list, the UK’s National Health Service central database that was supposed to record the complete medical records of every citizen (about 65 million people here legally), and be accessible to any medical professional (ie every doctor, dentist, surgeon, nurse, radiographer etc) in the whole country. It cost billions of pounds, never worked, and was abandoned.
I'm not sure why H3 is first on this list, I used it all the time when I lived in Hawai'i, and it has a direct route to H1 for Honolulu. In all that time, I never heard a complaint from a native Hawaiian about hating it, not once.
@@alexbernier7903 ghost confirmed thanks Alex for keeping us safe.
Because you dudes dont deserve such a road
@@Cortesevasive huh?😂
I lived in Hawai'i for four years attending University. The university has one campus in Honolulu and another one on the Kaneohe side so I'd go back and forth sometimes multiple times a day. While it isn't used as much as it was intended to it is still by far the most used highway in Hawaii. Probably doesn't warrant the pricetag but it is definitely not useless.
Nice that ye got that development tbh. I'm from Ireland and we don't usually get that type of motorways unless they're profitable. Edit: grammar
I've lived in Hawaii for 14 years and I second this
Everyone loves the H3
@@g0oberdm417 ew
Used H3 all the time to get from peral harbor to kbay like the video said lol
The H3 is very useful, what you should’ve included instead is the railway they constructed from west side to downtown Honolulu that has costed billions over budget and has been worked on for decades which still has not been opened.
Both john and Leslie managed to keep and maintain their good looks decades after this event.
The H3 is probably the most used road in all of Hawaii, it’s used every single day and is the fastes way from East to West and vice versa. Also it is a very small minority that doesn’t use it and I’ve never heard of anybody who doesn’t use it till I watched this video
The people that don't use it yet they'll use all the other roads and facilities that where built in Hawaii. Why do they use the Airport? That thing took out hundreds of acres of wildlife and natural terrain, or the hospital that sits upon a former nesting ground of the Nene bird? Don't go to the movie theater, it sits upon land that bats used to shit on
@@KrolKaz I love this
Yeah that was obviously a "filler" example for this video. Plenty of cars are visibly using it too haha.
It doesn't really matter how much it's used it's still wrong to build on sacred lands. And the United States ignored the environmental rights because well their colonizers.
@@supernatural5354 it wasn't even close to sacred it was built after hawaii became a state
Although these are the most useless mega projects, these projects were very useful to YOU, you got 20 million views in a week because of these useless projects. ; ) XD ..
Malayalees are every where...
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U jealous?
Lol yes
They may be useless mega projects on one hand,but on the other,these are life changing projects for tomorrow...watch this space...
as someone who has never been overseas before, it is certain that the H3 is far from useless
5:05 Fun fact: when the Ciudad Real airport went for auction, one of the bidders was a Colombian drug cartel who wanted the airport in order to ship the drug straight into Europe comfortably. True story!
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I'm not at all surprised. It's the kind of thing I expect them to do and if they can get away with it why not?
Honestly for 10k they sure made a lot of profit with all the planes sitting there. Even after covid i can see it being used for dragraces and stuff. Whats in there in material and land alone is probably a couple million
@@D3nn1s planes are part of the airlines not the actual airport
Even better, they probably could have actually made the surrounding area an actual megacity.
The H3 didn't have a single video scene without traffic 🤣 it's definitely used all the time, this is such a great example of how doubtful everything is in social media and media in general.
I was thinking the same thing, how the fkk is it "useless"? 🤣
Came here to say this haha
Exactly
I think they mean for the cost of every single km, it should be absolutely jammed of cars like a highway to L.A.
@@eloitremols its mainly for the military, so the price doesn't matter to these people.
As someone smoking a Newport that has never been to Hawaii I can assure you the H3 is far from useless.
Video full of useful information, thank you
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I lived in Hawaii for 3 years. The H3 is an extremely busy highway, often bumper to bumper during rush hour. H3 is definitely used a lot and is very useful, I commuted on it for years.
Definitely a road to nowhere, though: it goes away from Honolulu.
If you watched the video you would know that the time in construction and the budget blow out are what made it for 37 years a useless megaproject.
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Thank you for the 300th version of this comment.
@@shadeburst I’ve you lived on Oahu you would know this is not useless on any level.
You could also mention Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in Texas, that ate $$$ billions and was never built :D
In my fictional world, all project in this video are already finished and successful
Crazy enough, if you calculate the inflation of $250 Million in 1969 (Project proposal time) to Finish Time in 1997, the value is $1.2 Billion. Sounds like a colossal effect of inflation, but pretty on par for the original project estimation. (In the video it says the final cost was $1.3 Billion.)
Eish...u know your stuff lok
@@dejaun6030 everyone should know that stuff
@@vukbajic4904 welp...I didn't
@@vukbajic4904 Why should everyone know that?
The UK funnelled £100 Billion into the failed Track and Trace debacle. It is small change next to the Trillons of debt they launder in the form of promissory IOU's.
As someone who is from Myanmar, I can assure you that Naypyidaw was considered a ghost city(there's not even a single street dog,it's common in southeast asian countries, I think) a few years ago.The population's growing but whenever I visit there, the traffics are basically useless lmao.
I have heard that majority population loves eating dog 🐕 in Myanmar🇲🇲
@@BhajGovindamAsheeshSharma that’s what you have heard.
@@phoopyaepyaelinn7173 Of course, they hide and if needed eat the witnesses too
how is everything in mayanmar bro love from ur neighbour india
@@BhajGovindamAsheeshSharma Nah.. u heard it all wrong.. There may be a few tribes in Chin or Kachin state (as it was very remote) but most of the cities areas and suburbs don't love to eat dog :P
As someone who just crawled out from under a rock and hasn't even watched this video, I can assure you that the H-3 is far from useless.
as a postcard who has no frame of reference about anything including islands, i can say WITH CONFIDENCE that the H3 is definitely useful
When I lived in Hawaii, the H3 was my commute, in a convertible. Magically beautiful. Glad I've (so far) escaped the curse.
Perhaps the commuters are the curse.
An actual native Hawaiian in another comment said the curse thing is total bullshit
yeah man, there's no doubt you made that up just to earn some likes
@@shafo827 You got me! What a sad life I have.
These abandoned cities could get residents if they weren't asking for so much money to live in a Ghost town They should be practically giving away homes Low demand should mean low price
It's populated bro. Why did you expect people to come to a city in 3 years? It takes hundreds or atleast 20 years to make any city populated. Even New York started like this.
@@ericdeniz5413 "It takes hundreds, or least 20 years..." They have an overpopulated capital city, with residents who chose not to move, or can't afford to move. The people who can afford to buy in, aren't going to work there. There's no one in the city to sell anything to, so there's no jobs, so there's no income, so nobody is willing to move there, so there's nobody there to sell to. It is stupid to build complete cities, without a plan to populate it, with people who will work there, as it is being built.
@@notahotshot No shit. Are the people constructing it living there? They should be, and for the remainder of the construction process, they should have no utility/mortgage/rent/etc payments, or at least those payments should be stupid-cheap.
Bull shit bro.. Come and look now so much people here. This video is recorded during in process period. He made this video without knowing a single thing I guess.
@@ericdeniz5413 you’re comparing the wilderness of New York to a large city with infrastructure already built and put in place
That one capital seriously needs to add those things that are keeping people from going there if the government wants the place to succeed. And I think that, with Forest City, one of the problems about that place that was not mentioned is how China also wanted to divert shipping away from the other country's docks to the docks of Forest City. That attempt to divert shipping by way of location, and to take control of imports and exports, added to the other country's disgust with China's project.
My mom says, I think that this is very fascinating. You guys are very cool.
Thank you for showing this, now I don't feel as bad when I fail in my micro investment projects. Helped put things in perspective
Pretty sure this does the opposite of putting things in perspective
Few billion dollars is a micro investment for a country too.
What is the background music
I mean those millions were lost by country not by a single person, so this is definitely not the best way to put things into perspective
@@SidPil 😂
I’m from Myanmar, historically known as Burma. I was still living there when the capital was moved from Yangon(Historically known as) Rangoon. What the government did to persuade its citizens to move to the new capital was atrocious, like blocking the delivery of goods, cutting off water only turning on for 2 hrs a day, and cutting to powers for up to 5-6 days a week. Even if the powers on its only for a few hours. Life was turned upside down. But I think the acts the reason why the citizens were angry and defiant in not moving there.
In the west we either find it hard to believe that such things happen or we know it happens but treat them as out of sight out of mind. It's such a shame...the only issues that we deem important are those that directly impact our day to day lives.
We all from Myanmar recognize what city that thumbnail is… and I can confirm what is said above
There might be as many Burmese in Indianapolis as there are in the new capital proper.
The question in my mind is what is the situation today? The recent coup sort of changed everything, I would think.
@@danspencer9499 tldr: terrible economy across the country, many rights robbed, and armed battles in rural areas, dreams crushed for the younger generation there's not a lot of armed violence anymore in major cities, but can't say the same for the rest of the country... economy is terrible now and obviously that increases crime rate... u never know when u will be the next person to get mugged, when ur house will be next to get broken into... most young people (like me) are looking to go abroad for work/education, but the government is limiting passports for citizens and there is a new report coming out that u will need to come back to Myanmar to renew ur passport and even then they will only allow for diplomats... something along those lines...
You're killing me with " Yūcca" and "Nevahda."
I visited Honolulu in the '70s and needed to travel to the other side of the island to visit relatives. The trip was nice but took a long time. I am sure that the H3 will be a winner for all the people and visitors of the island. We have similar problems with ancient sites being disturbed in my country, Australia, but I am sure the sites were treated with the respect due to them. It is difficult for all races to come together even for the benefit of the majority when their beliefs are being challenged but common sense and trust that beliefs are not being trampled without good reason should be the norm for us all.
I think that the airport converted to grounded plane storage was the best save. Obviously does not justify the original price tag though.
But for the new price tag, it'll be a gold spurting investment. From tourist, to charter jets, to vip entries it has unexplored potential.
Yes
guy hit the jackpot buying it for only 10K euros
The Airport you can use it as Air Force base, at least it still can be usefull
So what just because it's useless this automatically makes the price of construction naterials, workforce, permits, legal and others cost less?
As someone who has lived on Long Island just about my entire life, I've traveled quite a bit over the years, but never to Hawaii. I can now say with certainty that if I ever do visit Hawaii, I'm definitely going to drive on the H3 due to all the positive comments it has received. Having said that, the H3 is far from useless.
As someone who lived in Hawaii I can say in all honesty that I have never been to Rhode Island and I like the color green and Shihtzu dogs.
As someone who doesn’t care I don’t care
Yo! I live on LI too!
Amen to that! I'd love to travel on that highway... me too...
Colonizer.
Include newly-constructed sports venues from 'Host Cities' after an Olympic Games has ended.
As somebody who has watched Moana 50 times, I'm still confused as to why Hawaii has "Interstate" highways.
Another thing about the Forest City: Despite it being marketed as an energy efficient green city, the development has led to irreversible environmental damage to the Johor wetlands due to reclamation...reclamation that happened without the environmental assessment required. Plus after the reclamation happened, a nearby fishing village said there were reduced catches. And if that's not the tip of the iceberg, it is located in an Environmentally Sensitive Area Rank 1 Area (meaning no development should occur unless it's low-impact nature tourism, education, or research) *the irony just writes itself*
No 2 Forest City Johore Malaysia built for Chinese communists market.Now why would Chinese citizens buy buildings in Johore? Probably to launder their money from the communist government. But they also bring in wuhan virus... hmm
typical example of the greedy blatantly lying to the people
Sultan of Johor should be blame for his foolishness. Greedy that darn Sultan and his prince
@@dunyaku4904 LOL, on the contrary, it is the local government that doing money laundry and corruption. It is a common situation in Malaysia, from large to small project or business involve government. Government official will request the contractor or business company to open the price higher than needed to request for higher fund from government, then the extra amount of the money will go into the personal bank account of the official. It is basically a tradition in Malaysia😂😂
Oh who cares about this environmental bs. Use the increased economic activity to fund benefits for nature
You totally missed on the H-3 project. I mean TOTALLY. When the highway was finally opened it was celebrated by the people of Hawaii. More than 30,000 residents attended four "Taste of H-3" events to tour the partially constructed project one year before it opened. And then on the day before opening, 17,000 people from all over the world (including yours truly) participated in the 10-kilometer "Great Trans-Koolau Trek" that enabled them to run or walk the highway's length. Moreover since H-3 opened it has proven to be an immensely valuable addition to Oahu's transportation infrastructure, for the very reason that it does NOT connect the Windward bedroom suburbs to downtown Honolulu. Two other highways already do that. Instead it connects those suburbs to the extended portion of the Honolulu urban core that reaches from Pearl Harbor out to the "Second City" of Kapolei. The route is heavily traveled and will be even more valuable in the future as Kapolei continues to grow. Finally I have no idea how you came up with the myth that "most" Native Hawaiians won't use the H-3. There may be a small number who still resent the project but if so it's not common knowledge in the Islands. In fact most locals who have friends or family visiting from outside Hawaii will take them on an H-3 ride because it's one of the most spectacular drives on the planet. It offers amazing vistas of native forest that is virtually untouched (thanks to the highway's environmentally sensitive design) and that almost no one would ever see if not for the highway's construction. For all of these reasons H-3 is actually one of the world's most USEFUL megaprojects.
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@Alessia lemme give you a gallon of holy water
Evidence of this please
That's suprising considering the amount of abusive project that are made in the occupied state of Hawaii. You are telling me the native like it ? Are you sure about this? Are you an Hawaiian or a us resident who moved and now lives there?
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I used to live at one end of H3 the fact that it avoided Downtown was part of the point. there are already routes that go there. H3 connected the 2nd business center to the bedroom communities. and connected the military bases The Hawaiian native population has some legitimate grievances and in order to be heard they will complain about anything and everything as long as there is an open mike. Admittedly it cost too much because of the viaducts required to separate it from the valley floor. You didn't show any of the rush hour shots where it was full of cars. also when it was closed on occasion for maintenance the other routes backed up for hours.