Hong Kong's $11BN Underwater Railway Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Hong Kong's MTR just got a whole lot bigger.
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There's something really wholesome seeing the enthusiasm of so many people excited about the opening of an infrastructure project (or any project).
I guess people are tired of bombings, shooting, biased narratives, Lies, etc.
@chuggs maybe bc its lots of people in hong kong
and something typical about people pushing others out of the way just to be first
How come the B1M always pins your comments?
For those who think trains are the magical answer to traffic congestion.... Look at all those people crammed onto the miserable trains! Mass transportation = Socialist transportation!
It makes us construction workers really proud of our work when we see such enthusiasm from the public after completion of a project.
I hope the people working on the Groninger Ringweg and the Groningen Hoofdstation will feel such pride when they are done too. They're turning a big fat eyesore that is a inner city highway into a tunnelled under park, and similarly the old railyard in the city centre is being turned into a new area for people to live and work with good direct connections to the rest of town via the now too small trainstation
You should be proud. The things you build are incredible, and they shape the very world around us.
@@vnixned2 I bet they are. I used to be a paramedic. One day, I had to transport an old man to his final hospice.He asked us if we could take a detour because he wanted to see a certain building for the last time, it was one of the buildings you'll find on any PR website about that city. Not a railway station but a hall used for congresses, fairs, concerts etc. It had been built around 50 years before that day, and he had been one of the construction workers on it. Even after 50 years, he was proud to have been a part of it and wanted it to be the last thing he saw on his last ride across the city.
@@strangelic4234 Respect, that is such a moving story, I'm happy you were able to make the old man's last ride such a memorable one for him. I'm sure he appreciated what you did for him, paramedics huh, not just healthy for the body but great for the mind and soul as well. Thank you for sharing Strangelic.
Regarding the SCL (Shatin Central Link), the enthusiasm and hype was absolutely reasonable. This project has plagued the news for a decade, and a lot of people who travel to and fro New Territories/Kowloon and Hong Kong Island genuinely want to see this get done. It would reduce an incredible amount of congestion on the Cross Harbor Tunnel by allowing convenient access between Hung Hom and the CBD, drastically reducing the passengers taking buses or taxis across the tunnel.
There’s also a lot of historical background and cultural changes as a result of this project, because of how long this has gone on for. The eastern extension of the West Rail Line (Now the Western part of the Tuen Ma Line) was already preparing for SCL. The Exhibition Centre station uncovered historical artifacts from World War 2 during construction. We said goodbye to trains that have operated for decades on this line. The new East Rail Line is a huge deal for many people, including myself. I’m really happy MTR never gave up on this project.
The treatment of Jason Poon after this was shocking. He saved many lives by speaking out. If the structure collapsed the company would have been liable and the consequences much worse than what Jason Poon did.
what happened to him?
@@lshanny Nothing has happened to him.
@@StrangerHappened lmao ok jacques left a typical anti china comment then. assuming the guy got disappeared in the night or shunned when nothing like that happened at all.
pretty effective propaganda tbh, since he already has 120 upvotes with zero proof.
@@StrangerHappened there could be a chance he's living under threat everyday or went through immense stress due to this. Whistleblowing is simply not taken in a fair light wherever governance is favoring the government.
What was the treatment of him afterwards?
As a Hong Konger, it's incredible seeing videos like this on one side, so enthusiastic, so epic. But then on the other side if you listen to the news every day in Hong Kong, you hear about the constant over budget, and MTR (a publicly traded company with majority government share holding) asking the government for money as easy as a bottomless bank account with basically no repercussion when being over budget every single time there's a project.
Then they send all their contractual work to Leighton (the company involved in the cutting short of rebars in this video), and have the design as well as the environment impact assessment all being handled by one company and claimed there's no problem with conflict of interest.
But what can we really do, right? I still ride it for convenience. You do get a different perspective living daily in Hong Kong with MTR.
Dan, thank you for your perspective. These issues are something I wouldn't expect in such a beautiful city!
The saddest part is that the Chinese Communist Party has decided to make HK as lame and oppressive as the other Chinese cities and erasing the HK mini-constitution.
tbf, the MTR is what makes the govt so much money, they deserve to have some back right?
That's true, but if they make so much money (owing much to pro-railway policy of the government) and are so important to people's lives, and yet so many scandals that harm the company's performance and reputation are disclosed, isn't it reasonable for the public to be furious?
@@jackykwok2376 Doubtfully unacceptable, however why does the Judiciary/ Dept of Justice sue Asian Leighton BD Constructing firm breached. 123 Buildings Ordinance , allowing unlimited extension at court? otherwise there may be protection from those billionaire capitalist
I was involved in a project to upgrade East Rail 20-25 years ago. It's refreshing to see how that was just a step in improving Hong Kong's rail transportation network.
East rail is still my favourite
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Gotta tip our hat to that subcontractor for whistleblowing, takes a lot of balls to do that.
Especially in a country with a totalitarian government.
construction with (communist) chinese characteristics
Chinese Government will make these people disappear.
Two of the comments removed...
TH-cam censorship clowns bending a knee to China 🤷
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Thanks for inviting me to talk about how the enthusiasts showing their love on railway.
The Shatin-Central Link is one of the important railway projects in Hong Kong, and forming two critical railway corridors-Tuen Ma Line and the East Rail Line Extension connecting the Fourth Harbour Crossing Railway. The new railways might bring convenience to railway passengers, and it should also be a good opportunity for the Hong Kong Government to rationalise the public transport network (but not just cancelling bus routes or reducing the frequencies of buses).
As mentioned in other interviews conducted in Cantonese,I always question that: is railway-oriented transportation policy the only or the best solution for commuters in Hong Kong?
Cross harbour link sure is convenient if you want to get to Hong Kong island, but reducing the cart length from 12 to 9 is a massive yikes. And the frequencies are frankly quite low compared to a typical kwun tong line or tsuen wan line, might just be a result of standing in the summer heat with no AC stations of east rail line haha
@@mcwatcher7790 I feel that the East Rail Line with full 9 car operation can handle the demand. And they do have more new trains yet to enter service.
when it comes to public transit you almost always have either buses or rail, which can take the form of a subway, tram/streetcar or LRT
cable cars aren't usually used unless there's very hilly terrain and monorails are impractical, however i think there are some in a few places
rail has proven time and time again to be better than buses in a lot of places so yes it's usually the better way to go when making transit, only problem is it's much more expensive so most cities in the us have very few rail lines if any at all
My Allah!
LOL. How did that tiny section cost $11b? Obviously the contractors were overpaid. No matter how difficult the construction was, it was not worth $11b. HK Gov and MTR could simply hire a Chinese construction companies to do it at a much cheaper cost, but they chose not to.
"Two years late and $1.2B overbudget"
California: That's cute
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something about seeing everyone so excited for the new train line makes me SO happy. its like new-iphone-launch levels of hype, except for something that is actually way more substantial and life-changing. infrastructure projects are way underrated, a lot more projects deserve similar fan-fare
12:17 Two years late and USD $1.5bn over budget.
Crossrail: Hold my cement truck.....
Thank you for including us in the video! We've also been really excited for the opening of the East Rail Line Cross-Harbour Extension! 紅磡接通港島超興奮！
As a Hong Konger I'm so deeply impressed by the depth of research in the engineering side and also the memes. Guess a lot of us don't even know and appreciate the engineering work done there, so thanks a lot for spreading it and also the banging tunes around.
Hong Kong's MTR is insanely efficient. I can't imagine life as a young person without it
We will had sit on buses, stuck in traffic.
U should Thanks your daddy China
I can drive to work in 1-2 hours, depending on traffic. Round trip, per day including parking, tunnel tolls and fuel is approx HK$400.
If I ride the Tuen Ma line, it's unaffected by road traffic & bad weather, takes a bit less than 1 hour and cost $45 HK$ per day. And no stress from inconsiderate drivers.
Great to have this system available!
wow , awesome , i am envious
In Australia we have highways with tolls , i know some truck drivers spend AUD $ 2000 per week on tolls which is insane
That’s fantastic more countries to be doing this and take more car’s of the road to reduce congestion and pollution….
Hong Kong’s unique transportation solutions are definitely affected by the difficult geography. It’s awesome not having to worry about where to park your car.
I wish there was so much enthusiasm for public transportation projects in more countries!
The success of the original MTR system in Hong Kong can be traced back to the colonial administration in the 1960s and more specifically under Governor Murray MacLehose in the 1970s. If the system was not built, traffic congestion would have severely limited growth in Hong Kong in the 1980s.
The continuous improvement, extension and modernisation of the system set the standard for modern metro systems across the world. Whilst it certainly wasn't the first underground system, it did set a number of innovations that were copied across the world (e.g. ticketless systems, platform screen doors etc.). For example many subway lines in mainland China built in the last 20 years also look very similar. Also worth mentioning the MTR operates various underground lines across the world, one of which is the Crossrail line in London.
This particular project was very much overdue because a lot of passengers relied on the Red Tsuen Wan line to cross the harbour, and this line has eliminated the need to change lines at several big stations thereby alleviating congestion during peak hour.
ye we know...white tech is amazing...
@@willblack8575 funny now the Elizebeth line is run by Hong Kong MTR
@@willblack8575 true dat
The same colonial government has churned out such poor city design like TuenMun and Tung Chung, and many districts still super relying on the CBD, greatly limited the growing capacity of the outliers, and inevitably, causing traffic burden on CBD and still largely to these days, citizens living on outlying districts, have to frequent CBD to work and for various purposes, and often travel long distances and hours, often reaching homes on connecting travel means, like light rail, and some more walking
Hong Kong has already outgrown colonial design, but the handover is just 25 years ago
@@willblack8575 let’s praise the colonial government
I like that they decided to build an underground system for *_trains/public transit_* (which carries more people per day) instead of for cars.
Great production as always B1M
Driving is painful in Hong Kong because of the traffic and the 115% taxation on private cars makes it a luxury item unlike other countries.
@@BasedApricot yes that because there's too many cars, the government is forcing people to use public transport or else the traffic problems will just worsen
Yeah it's almost like major cities never thought about building subways. Not London, not Paris. They'd never think of something as radical as building a subway in New York let alone Washington DC.
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@@BasedApricot
Chad hongkong
It's crazy how a pointy stone was peak technology at some point, now people can build things like this
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I've never seen any city get so excited over the construction of a metro line
cuz it took like alot of years for it to finally open
They’re not the worst ones… I’ve heard some Japanese illegally entered forbidden areas standing on Shinkansen rails
Massive infrastructure projects like these are always more complex once actual construction starts. This isn’t just a problem in Hong Kong but worldwide, just look at the Crossrail/Elizabeth Line in London for example (also operated by MTR)! Unfortunately, however, people and the media in general always want to focus on negatives as it's "bad news" that sells!
That man's courage to report safety problems saved hundreds if not thousands of lives in case a disaster had happened.
it still worries us that they gave the whole project to just one single construction company and that such a huge structural integrity problem was found at a station that would involve usage by millions of people a day. look at how many people pass through the admiralty station and look at how many people are on the train. If a station like this collapsed there's literally no saving the people inside.
As always, "Trains bad", "public transport bad"
HongKong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai have the best subway systems in China. They are just so efficient. clean, modern, convenient and affordable.
if you compare it to that of places like Japan, yes it's cheap by comparison. Other than that most of those are not true, MTR in Hong Kong is definitely no efficient by design and the way it works or maintained, very aged in terms of hardware and network, a ridiculous pricing system that's far from being affordable
@@FenixYuk MTR is not affordable? Have you been on any other transit system outside Asia?
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Let's not forget about the discovery of both ancient village and unexploded WW2 ordinances during the construction of the stations. Those served as some less complicated issues than a freaking tunnel, but still, interesting issues surrounding them.
Yeah, those pesky old bombs are often a problem in HK!
Were there any corpses around?
So HK is no longer chinese then... as in... the identity of chinese is also gone too ? Ancient villages that could've turned and over turned the fights.... So yeh... go right ahead and claim it. Why not, right ? And no media reported this either.
Hong Kong's MTR: Incredible
Moscow Metro: Beautiful
NYC Subway: *pizza rat, take it or leave it*
We need this level of excitement and appreciation for public Infrastructure projects which benefits us all
Agree with you! ....The US infrastructure is literally a third world axis
London underground: the surface of the Sun
Editing. Unreal. Narration. Brilliant. Giant infrastructure projects..... Almost as cool as B1M.
The fact that the song is to the tune of Greensleeves is simultaneously weird and wonderful.
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So happy that Hong Kong is progressing further and further. Always found it cool to take the Starferry to the Island, made the trip special everytime, but of course this is such an important line extension.
The infrastructure is the bright side. The dark side is the fact that it’s driven by overcrowding and a general inability to afford housing.
The government is becoming more aggressive in supplying affordable housing, but 40 years of unchecked capitalism bleeding all the housing into the investor class is a huge hurdle to surmount and overcome.
They also updated the trains. The old Sha Tin line trains dates back to the 80s when that rail was electrified. They were refitted before, but they are getting old. However, because of size limitation of the new stations, the new trains are shorter. To compensate, they'll be running more frequently. Hopefully, with new train compatible with computerized station control to line up with platform screen doors, they can upgrade the old above ground stations along the original Sha Tin line with platform gates.
Yes, also, the biggest obstacle to installing platform gates was the inconsistent door spacing between old and new trains. Still, a rope-based barrier system could have been done like some stations in Japan and Korea.
@@canto_v12 Why install a rope based barrier when MTR can install proper platform gates anyway? The mixed fleet operation period was only temporary.
@@squidgame2021 cheaper and doesn’t require re-engineering the HVAC.
@@canto_v12 Fair, but MTR would have replaced those systems anyway because they are old.
The UK and China: sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration
The UK: So uh, you're not a colony anymore
Hong Kong: Cool!
Hong Kong to China: You have freed us!
China: Oh, I wouldn't say "freed", more like
China passing the National Security Law: *UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT*
I love a clean and well designed mass transit system. Always sad to see how every place I visited, including Bangkok and Medellín have better maintained system than New York
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Yeah it's almost like having a system that's 40 something years old is better than a century old system
@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Have you visited London Underground?
@@Peizxcv and is it as well maintained as mtr?
@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Yes. The Underground feels surprisingly new even at 150 years old
Wow! my city's infrastructure was mentioned in a B1M video!
Was hoping you'd cover this, as a hongkonger I'm so proud of Hong Kong's MTR
As a Hongkonger, I will describe the project as a double-edged sword. For the new section of East Rail Line, of course it is a convenient alternaive for crossing the harbour. However, the number of train carriages is reduced from 12 to 9 makes the travel of old section extremely crowded.
Hopefully the new train control system will keep the passengers moving more efficiently.
As a former worker in Hong Kong, I used to take bus all the way from Yuen Long, far West north to Central. Roughly 30mins (if no traffic) in the morning, tbh I quite enjoy the commute time, not a fan of any subway or tube or metro , anything underground 😂
Seeing construction projects like this pop up around the world has made me excited watching the progress of the Killington Resort K1 Lodge. Thanks for all the amazing content!
Well done Hong Kong and MTR.
It wasn't the first construction major scandal in Hong Kong - There was similar scandals about some housing blocks built in Hong Kong in 1970's with poor design, missing cement and rebar and seawater used to make concrete, that scandal also affected some road structures. I recall there was also a foundations scandal in the 1980's. Unfortunately this is the kind of thing that impacts large/fast major infrastructure projects all over the world. Engineers do try and prevent it - BUT it happens!
Honk Kong has always celebrated major construction projects completion e.g. by charity walks along major new roads. It does have some major construction projects of which they should be very proud.
I love my city. Something so mundane as a new train drives us wild.
Haha, it's a pretty cool train in fairness. We all got up at 5:30am to see the new Battersea tube station open in London.
It’s not mundane if it drives us wild!
As a Hong Konger, I can verify, this channel actually did their research. They actually understand.
屯馬開通真的很興奮
"...Shaken it to its reinforced concrete core." well played!
This was a particularly appealing episode -- thanks for keeping us in the loop, B1M!
If there ever was an underground that didn’t need an upgrade, it would be Hong Kong’s.
I know right? It's already incredible.
I assure you it needs it - yes, it's a pretty large system for the size of the territory with a high frequency of service, but the ridership numbers are insane. The main thing this tunnel does is make it possible for people living close to the east rail line to get to the island without changing trains. Kowloon Tong was always a nightmare at busy times due to all the transfer traffic.
As someone who is from HK I could tell you that it definitely needs to upgrade its capacity as it is super crowded even in off-peak hours...
I promise this was absolutely necessary. Most hkers don't have cars and the current network in particular the Tsuen Wan harbour crossing was bursting at the seams. In a lot of places the public transport is an additional option, in Hong Kong it IS the transport.
Well... visit Admiralty Station at 8:00am or 6:00pm and you'll see that an upgrade is definitely needed!
Admiralty Station, Prince Edward Station, Kowloon Tong Station and Kowloon Bay Station are all nightmares at peak hour.
“2 years late and 1.5 billion over budget “
Cross rail in London - ppppsssstttt, we will see about that
" ... an episode which has shaken Hong Kong's construction industry to it's reinforced concrete core" ... I love this statement👍
Came here to say this!
Graceful i'm involved in one of these projects. (Luckily not in the company who got into scandal)
it was a hell of a feeling when i saw so many people are hyped with the opening of the rail line.
At that moment, all that struggles, sweat and hard work became worthy
We appreciate your hard work!
Wow! The multitude is so happy to conduct themselves like the "paparazzi" that the project is successfully built!
In Mumbai's suburban trains, 7.5 million people used to travel every day in 2019. It is expected to reach 8 million by 2025 since it is already at peak capacity.
Mumbai needs something like this- something that matches the level of public transport in HK or Singapore!
And there's a metro under construction there right now. In fact the first 3 lines are operational
@@doge.a.cat2002 Yeah but that isn't helping... Mumbai needs something revolutionary. It's a really unique city with a forest in between and a peninsular shape and hence solutions like metro that work for Delhi won't work as effectively here- Mumbai needs to develop its own solutions.
14 lines are under construction including a bullet train line with only 2 lines that are operating and a new line operation expected this year and the bullet train line expected in 2028
2:08 it’s the way even the ‘scary’ congestion clips are literally just of people walking fairly efficiently in a narrow space😅.
I'm a simple man. Fred is talking my hometown so I have no choice but to click immediately.
I lived in Sha Tin for a summer about eleven years ago as part of a cultural exchange programme. Getting to HKI back then was a pain in the ass with the MTR, so hope this does improve the journey
Incredible engineering and wonderful history
I didn't expect B1M covered so much meme aspect for the Shatin-Central link (Tuen Ma Line) project
Wow! I loved this video and it’s really exciting to see how happy these folks genuinely were!
As a New Yorker but more specifically, a Brooklynite, our subway has always been thought of as second in the world to London’s Tube… but did you know Brooklyn had an underground train running along the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in 1845! 20 years before London’s underground. Lots of love to strap hangers world wide. HK NYC LON united
Lmao NYC and London have nothing on several Asian systems.
You need to travel more. London Tube is nothing compared to Hong Kong's and quite a few other Asian's cities'. Fun fact: London Tube was so comparably inefficient that they hired consultants from Hong Kong MTR to advise them how to run and manage the system more efficiently for two of their lines. NYC subway is even worse. It's considered pretty third-world now - slow, loud, dirty and not very reliable.
I especially like the song "I'm Really Excited About the Opening of Tuen Ma", to the tune of "Greensleeves"
First time to use Admiralty interchange station on 2022-07-07 after its extension. It is a hugh underground mulit-level (6 levels from ground to bottom) underground railway interchange platform. It is amazing (engineering complexity is a must and no surprised). It is about MTRC is so rich to built / invest such expensive underground excavation works in a busy urban area👍
I think the construction lasted for more than 10 years private funded NEC project.
For digging, underpinning and maintaining live operation of underground railway (2 existing level with 2 ways train at each level) and continue to build another 2 level of underground railway platform at the same location at busy urban city (ground settlement of each point on railway tracks are kept at less than 5mm)....
The engineering complexity is a must, also the city is so rich for funding such expensive project privately. Well done MTRC👍
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If you’re not in any rush, the Star Ferry is always the better option when crossing Victoria Harbour.
Very cheap too!
i lived in Causeway Bay from 2004-06. Still have my MTR card.
The most impressive part is holding parts of Admiralty Station up from underneath, as entirely new levels were built under the existing station. What an incredible project, despite the scandal. Can’t wait to try out this new extension.
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Hong Kong people are generally very proud of the MTR. MTR also runs the new London Elizabeth line. Hence its name MTR Elizabeth line.
Not really
Not really, when it posts record revenue every year and still increases it's fare, and somehow the service keep getting worse. The shatin central link had encountered major technical problem the first week of its opening, nut to mention it was delayed for a few years to begin with.
@@sbeve7445 MTR fares have not risen since the 2019 fare increase and has actually fallen in 2021. They also provide fare rebates for a long time after any fare increase, as long as you use Octopus which is basically everyone.
@@sbeve7445 how is it getting worse? Sure it's more crowded than before but that proves how vital the MTR is for commuters. The fares haven't increased for ages already and come on, it is still amongst the cheapest in the world. The Sha Tin Central link is amongst the most difficult and complex projects they've ever undertaken. Over budget and delays are not uncommon in any construction project.
Go and try the London underground, the Paris metro and New York underground so then you will appreciate how great the MTR really is.
@@alectang1614 Major technical issue causing breakdown on the 3rd or 4th day of opening of the cross harbour extension, 2 train crashes (1 during testing and 1 during actual operation at hong hum station) due to poor material and improper signalling, more and more frequent breakdown and idiotic decisions (like shortening east rail line's train from 12 to 9, while still keeping first class, when the entire line is incredibly congested and people having to wait for 2 trains to come).
They also don't really spend their money very wisely, which is even more infurating because MTR is also land owners, the more they fuck up, the more people have to pay up for the housing. For instance. They wanted to upgrade the signalling on the Tsuen Wan line and Kung Tong line, but because of that train crash, it was never put into service (Which I guess is good, but they basically wasted millions of dollars).
Like fuck me I live in Toronto right now, sure the subway is not as clean / nice as MTR, but at least it is mostly punctual, trains don't crash into each other, and GO train as a whole is really nicely operated.
MTR start going downhill once it merged with KCR. Because it no longer had any competition and incentive to improve. Instead, now people have to live with it.
I'm not even going to talk about the protest situations, or the whole construction scandal that the video already mentioned.
At least currently, Hong Kong's bus route are actually also really competitive. The double deckers are nice and comfortable and mostly safe, with much more competitive price.
As an Admin of the Minecraft MTR Server Discord and Minecraft. Thank you for putting us in the video!
Loved the vid!! Watched everyone of yours!!
Thank you so much! 🙌
great to see these large gov agencies take a whistleblower seriously and get to the bottom of the structural and procedural deficiencies! not the usual doom and gloom that you always see when a western outlet reports on issues in china.
I mean tbf its hong kong not china hong kong is somewhat westernised so its unserprising that they actually learn from their mistakes
@@aaroncousins4750 bruh
@@aaroncousins4750 Lol. Another brainwshed descdnt of slv traders trying to cope with the rise of China. Hongkong is literally ruled by CPC
This was back when Hong Kong still had some independence...
@@zapfanzapfan Lol. You mean when Hongkong was a slve colony with Anglo elite masters, no Civil Rights for the Chinese and zero Democracy, right? Must be so liberating and free to be servants, isn't it?
When no native had the right to vote and all Hongkong leaders were handpicked by the Queen. Great times!! When restaurants and public places had signs like "Dogs and Chinese not allowed". Very true!
Great video. Good infrastructure really helps ordinary people. In general, the HK government has done a good job of improving and expanding public transport in HK. A broad public transport network like the one in Hong Kong, helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and facilitates economic activity.
I love stories like this - people are such wonderful lunatics to get enthused over something so seemingly prosaic as a new subway line. (The guy in the red shirt at 11:56 waving his sign back and forth as he dances along totally cracks me up!)
Hoping our country could also build projects like this in the future! Living in an archepelagic country, traveling between islands is really difficult and expensive. That's why I highly salute the people of Hongkong!!!! Though, I don't live in hongkong I'm happy that I'm alive to witness this! If I ever get to hongkong my first ride would be this!!!!!
seeing new infrastructure always brings undescribed excitement and all that jazz
Another excellently presented construction short film from the b1m. This makes me realise working in construction in the UK on a lot of levels we are way behind the rest of the world
Most engineering marvel projects in Hong Kong were made during the British time tho...
The US is even more behind because railways aren't nationalized. Even if they aren't, it should be much easier than right now, people are just being difficult. Kind of annoying because they usually overlap someone's land or go on or through ruff terrain (mountains) which makes it really hard and expensive
@@elongatedshrew5902 The US rail system is optimized for freight, not people, and it's very good at what it does. With long distances between most parts of the country, flying makes more sense to move people. But that's the great thing about the US: We let markets decide, instead of government bureaucrats.
@@wallyballou7417 yes I agree and know. I wish there could be much more rails to transport people even though freight rail is doing very well and I love that, it's great and very efficient. It would also be efficient and good if we could get some high-speed rail but with everyone owning the necessary land for the rail it's very hard to get ahold of it.
@@wallyballou7417 The free market is trashing the environment.
The application of gravel spreading machine and prefabricated sea tunnel is amazing, great achievement to the city's transportation network
Fantastic achievement
Hope now they can get around to tackling appalling housing conditions for so many...
To set the record straight, you can live in a US style house but by Hong kong standards u’ll be in the middle of nowhere
@@lamchunting856 affordable for a working class family ?
@@johnduncan5117 just found a 380 sq ft "house" for 127000 USD in Yuen Long district using 28Hse app. does that count?
@@gepe7176 35 square meters ? not sure it can really qualify as adequate outside of somewhere like HK. I mean sure it's better than a lot of people in HK have, but 35 square meters for a family is definitely not US size. Here in France a family of 4 would usually have around 60 at the absolute minimum. Most would be in apartments of 75 or more. This is not the point though. My point is that in HK right now people are living in tin cans in unsafe buildings, sharing communal bathrooms and kitchens. Whole families. In one of the richest places on earth. There are of course social problems everywhere. Don't get me wrong. But I think from an outsider's perspective, HK's priority seems to be providing better accommodations for the working classes.
@@johnduncan5117 Agree, but I don't think it will ever get fixed because HK just doesn't have enough space. It's basically a physics problem. If an average family apartment was 75 sq meters in HK, the city wouldn't look like HK anymore, it would be a very different place.
Also living in small spaces is not as bad as you think if you are used to it. It has advantages as well such as convenience and proximity to everything. I live in 15 sq meter place now right in downtown, and at least for me it's better than living in a 75 sq m place if I have to drive every day.
But I agree that the government should take care of those extreme cases where whole families live in 20 sq meters or something.
Absolutely Beautiful good computerized engineering technology hard works construction project thanks video upload official B1M
Hong Kong🇭🇰
Thank you for sharing this story about Hong Kong. It is a nice city to tour to.
Love HK very much.
Yes, I loved our layover hotel there at the Intercontinental Hotel next door to the Civic Central downtown looking at the Harbour Area. I always loved looking at the skyline of the other buildings especially at night when the lights of the buildings light up the Harbour Area!! Nice!
Amazing engineering work! I will definitely try the new railway when visiting HK next time. Hats off to all the engineers and construction workers involved.
"after our cost cutting measures were exposed we decided to do something" how noble
Honestly 1.5B overbudget is quite remarkable! Now granted 1.5B is still a fuck ton of money but compared to some of the infrastructure project delays and overbudgets I'm hearing about in the US, 1.5B ain't that bad.
Stuttgart 21 rail project has left the Chatroom
I've been there in 2015. It's a really good transport system.
Reminds me of my rides on Singapore's legendary SMRT. I'll never stop being in awe of massive infra projects, and your beautiful channel by extension!
This video misrepresented the issue in Hung Hom Station. The rod beams didn't screw all the way into the sockets. The workers were having trouble screwing the rods. So they just screwed HALFway, Later, the chief engineering inspector saying at the press it is STILL SAFE without remedy work.
Excellent presentation. I cannot wait to return to HK when everything is safe again. Its not just a shopping destination. There is so much to do.
Have you explored the hiking trails?
The 'fans' are too young to remember living as a free people.
(Tough luck ... enjoy the ride.) 🤠
Those fans have few things left to be proud about HK, soon they won't even be taught Cantonese in schools, it will happen soon.
The British never gave democracy to Hong Kong. The Governor was apppointed from the UK.
@@Bk6346 Life in HK was very democratic, they had open elections with their preferred local candidates, they also had freedom of speech, and freedom to travel. The notion that it was not a democratic country because the head of the government was appointed by a democratic country is nonsense.
HK was a colony of a democratic monarchy. Much better than being a subject in a kleptocratic communist society.
@@EbuzzNYC what the heck is democratic monarchy? Can people in UK decided who become King and Queen (Btw why they still exist)? Can people in UK decide or have voting rights for their next PM? I guess not. Freedom of speech is not everything, well at least not before national security - that's what I heard from the head of states of UK and US.
@@426dfv Enjoy your democracy in China, that's what they're saying nowadays lol
7:22 Is nobody gonna talk about the speed of that guy gown down the escalator so fast?. LOL
All MTR escalators are very fast to deliver and disperse the crowded passengers as soon as possible.
speed
Wow, that former quarry sounds like a Cape Canaveral of infrastructure. I hope they use it for future projects as it sounds very convenient to have for such a major metropolis.
Hong Kong, and in fact many other places, are no stranger to this construction method. This is like their 4th tunnel built this way. But what’s significant is that each successive tunnel is harder because it has to pass the existing tunnels and buildings nearby. In this case two other tunnels, one of which belongs to another MTR line and the other for road traffic. You cannot even come close to endangering the other tunnels by disturbing the soil.
That’s why this tunnel project was so difficult, despite its small scale in relation to the rest of the rail network.
@@canto_v12 Prefab is the future of nuclear power stations. You order 50 nuclear power plants to build everything in duplicate, have it shipped to site and assembled.
With the power plants built in duplicates you can build a decommissioning plant that's automated to disassemble parts with programed robots.
What drives up nuclear power plant construction costs is how everything is custom built and outdated bureaucracy regulations. Soon we'll have 100 year old nuclear power regulations meant for old reactors from the 1960s.
We'll be applying 1960s fission reactor rules to fusion power plants built in the 2060s.
i spent 3 years constructing Admirty station as one of the structual engineers on site, 3 years of blood and tears but so worth it so proud of it (main strucutres took 5 years to complete)
this is why hk's one of the greatest places on earth. the rebar scandal's unfortunately, but corrective action was taken. in lesser locales, it would have been swept under the rug.
Living in hk for 10 years it makes feel hk are my second home and speaking Cantonese as my fourth language proud of hk❤️
Hats off to all the workers who made this wonderful achievement possible 👍👍👍👍
Very informative video. I’m one of those people who was really excited about the SCL project completing because I’ve been loosely following its progress for years, and I benefited from it more than I could have realized. With how many things MTR does to its network, for years I felt left out, but the East Rail Cross Harbor extension was something I always dreamed about.
I admit that this video could really have talked about how exactly this project was so significant. It did hint at the traffic congestion and horrific overcrowding in trains and interchange stations (Cough Admiralty), but as someone who tested the trip myself, let me break it down:
Before, if you live in the most Northern part of Hong Kong and work in Admiralty for example, good luck. It’s an 55 minute ride on the MTR with two interchange stations (Kowloon Tong and Mong Kok) and a lot of waiting for trains during the interchange. But the extension cuts both interchange stations and shortens the ride drastically to just 40 minutes. The trains got faster, more frequent, and they travel further in the same amount of time. For reference, and I did test this- The time needed to get to Hung Hom from Sheung Shui in the past, is somehow the same amount of time it takes to get from Sheung Shui to Admiralty now, being 40 minutes. Crazy.
To be fair, few will understand the geographical challenges of commuting in Hong Kong. You and I know it by heart but nobody builds major cities on a couple of steep rocky islands. HK is unique in that regard, and it constrains the alignment of transportation corridors.
I, for one, am all for the trains needing to dive sharply like a roller coaster.
imagine installing seat belt in the carriage
I never quite understood why MTR had to extend the East Rail Line, and build so much expensive infrastructure. It could've simply extend the Ma On Shan Line to Admiralty, and build one new set of platforms in Hung Hom, as East/West Rail Lines already have their own platforms. That scandal may not have happened.
By leaving the East (and West) Rail Line alone, the MTRC also could've continue using the existing rolling stocks. East Rail Line trains have to go from 12 cars to 9 because platforms in Hong Kong Island can't be that long.
Thank you for the whistle blower for saving hundreds or thousands of lives ❤️ imagine what catastrophy it might have been waiting.
It’s so cool to see people excited about public transit and makes me wish we could have this in the US.
7:23 "Hong Kong metro speed run"
Well spotted. Thanks for highlighting it.
Great video, great project, grwat young fans and an amazing wistleblower! His courage has been a boon for China/HK and MTR. I hope he has been rewarded rather than punished. Things going wrong for whatever reasons isn't all that bad but covering the wrongs up and it coming out when it's too late to fix then it is disasterous for all involved.
Lets seen how the US is going to respond to this with their infrastructure projects around the NY metro. :P
There is nothing to do with communist china.
@@dawnnadir It's a part of China since 1997..... There are elections but they are mostly for show. (The UK only allowed direct elections since 1995 and didn't have any elections when the deal of transferring it back to China in 1984 so it's completely legal according to international law.) China has loads of places where other laws apply then in most of the country but those places are still China.
@@Cl0ckcl0ck Is the world still naively talking about law with red bloody communist China? Do you think they care the law? Hahahahahahaha
In 1973 I saw 21 story bamboo scaffolding on a hotel in Singapore. It was erected so that the entire exterior could be finished with 1” light blue glass mosaic tiles. The sidewalk level legs felt like steel. They rested on the sidewalk concrete slab with no cracking visible. Astonishing.
As a HongKonger, I must point out that this is sadly one of the very few remaining things we can still brag about.
Yes she definitely still looks amazing on the outside, but the core is in fact completely rotten after 2019.
Freedom of speech, freedom of press, fair legal system, democratic political system (the list goes on) are all practically gone, and no amount of infrastructure projects can possibly reverse the damages that had already been done.
I'm a Hongkonger too. One who was born in the UK to HK parents. I work in HK now. It is not all doom and gloom. The judicial system is still one of the most respected in the world and continues to be fair. My wife is a lawyer here and assures me (often in heated debate) that the system continues to be impartial despite what the media and FB users say.
Sure it has taken a hit in democratic reform, freedom of speech and press but I and the ones who have chosen to stay have not given up on Hong Kong.
Moved to HK in 2020 from Russia. Best decision ever. It's paradise compared to my home country.
Only for those western propaganda media and western inteligent agency but a better place for locals
@@alectang1614 Sadly, not for long, they have been throwing people's charges under National Security Law that are similar to what subjects under the Mainland get to live in, enjoy the little bit of fresh air that you have, HK'ers are living like frogs in "lukewarm" water right now.
I've lived in HK briefly and visited many times through my extensive travels in SE Asia, I'm sad to say that I'll never visit again. One could see that HK was becoming more and more "Mandarized" and the numbers prove it with over a million mainlanders replacing the HK'ers that left, the city is becoming just another mainland city.
Just remember the engineers sit & smoke bongs to come up with ideas like these.... Bong Kong
Thanks for sharing what’s happening in my hometown. But please don’t forget that behind these shiny new infrastructure, the freedom and rights of several million Hong Kong people are being taken away, and our new generation are being brainwashed. It wasn’t the place I grew up anymore.
lol keep crying. you're not even from hk
@@winterrising8738 more nature dissapearing
fake news.