The $11BN Tunnel Connecting Scandinavia to the Mediterranean
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Human ingenuity like this is what made me want to become a civil engineer.
I'm aspiring to become one
@@anp1609 And you will. I just started my first job as an assistant engineer last month and had a lot of doubts about myself as an engineer throughout uni. But it all worked out in the end. You're gonna do great, Aditya! 👍🏿
@@berbatovfan27 thanks for your kind words!
@@anp1609 Civil engineer here. I'm just a few years into my career, but it's totally worth it. We get to look at the origins of large things being thought up and built. Very interesting stuff.
I was torn between engineering or the medical field growing up. You can imagine that I've had doubts lately for choosing the latter rather than the former. Thought it was a good idea not to turn a hobby such as designing/building into a career. Cheers to all the young men/woman who follow their passion!
I had no idea that this project even existed, it's insane
How?
@@Someone-wh8hi I don't live in Europe?
@@dominicrobertson7626 I live in Europe and also had no idea!
@@dominicrobertson7626 but sir, no other places exist outside the US of Europe.
there is another one of similar scale, Lyon-Turino. As someone from Europe I had no idea about that one.
I (a Scandinavian person) really thought there was a monstrous tunnel from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean that I didn't know about.
I was wondering about that as well.. nice video but hate clickbait
@@Fwfjqjerflqa its really not clickbait, the tunnel does indeed connect the scandinavia to the mediterranean
@@driuss8587 Well, it does also connect Beijing to Naples and Wladiwostok to Venice...
same, thought maybe really just not for humans, like a pipeline whole under the ground or something...
that was the first thing my mind jumped to as well but i knew there's no way for that to only cost $11BN.
i too think it's rather clickbaity because, while it's not technically a lie (and it might not even be on purpose (though it probably is)), it still sounds like an actual tunnel of 1000s of km
That tunnel boring machine is a construction masterpiece of century.
A bit boring, though.
@@HeriEystberg He’s very interesting in fact 😤
@@callidusvulpes5556
The joke
You
@@neondemon5137 Me playing into the joke
Your head
I literally personified a tunnel boring machine, how much clearer can I get?
is the machine built by Herrenknecht? that company is the market leader for boring machines
I'm regularly taking this route, as I live on the north side of the Alps and my parents on the south. One one hand I'm looking forward to over an hour less travel time on that journey, but going through the tunnel won't be as nice as over the mountains.
kannst ja jederzeit über den Pass oder das Penserjoch fahren ;)
@@bloodhoug82, wie Wunderschön.
@@lucilayvonnepadilla6727 ist es wirklich
the good thing is that both ways will be quicker, the tunnel ... well because its a tunnel, and over the mountains will be less traffic.
When I first saw the comment I didn't realise it was an 80 minute journey going to 25 mins, saving an hour didn't sound great when I thought the journey might be 5 or 6 hours, but to find its 80mins down to 25 mins that's almost a quarter of the time of original journey, and sounds a lot better.
Watching this sitting in Innsbruck just a few hundred meters from the site makes the video a lot more interesting! Great Job, as always!
Big Love from Texas 💪
Innsbruck is beautiful. In fact, all of Austria is stunning. Cheers from Illinois! ❤
I will be there in 2028 to ride the magna-tunnel!
@@vinnieviddivicci5459 It absolutly is. An alpine paradise of landscapes. Grestings back 🇦🇹
@@johannesmaximilian848 - I have friends in Innsbruck. I was there one year in June, and the "fires were in the hills" since it was June 21. Drank too much schnapps that night! 😅
🇺🇸 ❤ 🇦🇹
Having spent some years in my youth as a labourer on various constructions, it does my heart good to see such massive works with not a shovel or a pick in sight.
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@@derrickconnolly9164 Don't be scared just because they could work harder than you
@@clappedoutmotor as if
@@clappedoutmotor dont be ashamed of being white...its OK to be white.
@@danielgriffith1804 thats not why we dont like his comment
“For decades, the alps has slowed down travel” it’s been like that for thousands of years not just mere decades
only if you take it out of context
Something something Hannibal something...
@@TimeSurfer206 Imagine how much easier hannibal wouldve crossed the alps if it was an open field
@@AnAverageBoss You're still of on the amount of time they've been there by a few orders of magnitude.
Hannibal would not have made the History Books if it had been an open field.
@@TimeSurfer206 Hannibal didn't make the history books because he crossed the alps, he made it because of what he did once he crossed the alps.
I was always thinking how much yodels is 21,5 millions cubic meters, now I know it's a lot. Thank you.
Haha, you're welcome!! 😂
It was funny but I was really hoping for a serious answer, like how many Olympic size swimming pools it would fill or how big an artificial island could be made.
@@chatteyj 8600 pools @ 2500 cubic meters apiece, if that helps?
@@jimsvideos7201 Tar, thats a fair size artificial man made island then.
atleast this documentry is asking the important mathmatical questions
There currently 2 million trucks on the Brenner highway each year. The major purpose of the BBT is to reduce that.
Wasn't that the purpose of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, to get get trucks put on flatbed trailers to be moved by train through the Tunnel to reduce the air pollution through that part of Switzerland?
@@Sacto1654 I'd say both tunnels have the same purpose but in different sections of Alps (as the mountain range stretches pretty long).
@@Sacto1654 The Gotthard basically links North-Western Italy (Milan, Turin, Genoa) and the rest with Zurich, the Rhine and the Netherlands. The Brenner instead connects Trentino-South Tyrol, Veneto (region of Venice, Padua and Verona), Bologna, Central and Southern Italy, and the Adriatic coast to (Northern)Tyrol, Bavaria, Eastern Germany and the whole Scandinavia.
They serve different flows of goods and people which are both huge
@@Hastdupech8509 @Sacto1654 The main difference is that traffic flow through Switzerland is much lower due to the fact that Switzerland is not in the EU. Whilst the Swiss can charge very high truck tolls to cross-finance the construction of its base tunnels, Austria is only allowed to charge a moderate amount as anything else would be considered a violation the free movement of goods and services principle of the EU. Consequentially more than 2/3 of all the cross alpine truck traffice is running through Austria.
@@hackbrettschorsch6855 Thanks, that makes a lot of sense
Just imagine what would Hanibal think of humans tunneling through Alps
"that's great and all but i'm not crossing them from THAT direction."
or something to that effect, given he was crossing from the Iberian peninsula (modern day spain) into north italy he likely took the more direct route over them from there. Though I'm sure a historian could prove me wrong or right more succinctly.
He would think that they are aliens
He would ask himself how many elephants fit into those tunnels
What do you think he would have thought?
@@The7Purplekirbies Yes, but it is still the same mountain range which killed half of his army.
There are moments when I really appreciate living in Europe where infrastructure is taken seriously.
You sure about that yeah
Europe is a nice place
The whole world appreciates living in Europe
Nah infrastructure is supported in europe but it takes so much time to end a project…
@@callmeme9903 Thats what happens when you cannot use your manpower until they die
Better title: The 11BN Tunnel through the Alps.
Yup. Very clickbaity.
Then it wouldn't be a clickbait link...
Most titles are clickbaity now a days to get revenue, it´s the nature of the human race, if the title is boring only the intelligent people watch. However "11 BN tunnel through the Alps" doesn´t sound boring.
Yeah I agree hahaha
When I read the title, I immediately thought "wtf" this can't be true😂..
Scandinavia to Medeterranian?? A tunnel??? Why/how/when???
11 billion is really cute in that distance..
Commendable clickbait though. Keep it up.. LOL
@@ramonejara2424 Might as well have said 11BN Tunnel connecting Mexico to the Mediterranean. Drive from Mexico to Canada. Take boat to Scandinavia.
As an American, I have always been in awe of how well thought out European engineering projects are.
In large parts of the USA they were able to do the same before 1970. After that most of the USA became to corrupt to do infrastructure. Keyword is competition. Without competition things will take 10 times longer and will cost 30 times more. It will also take a decade to rebuild know-how again. Fortunately for USA they can buy know-how in many parts of the world that still do infrastructure.
@@roodborstkalf9664 the problem in the US isn't lack of competition, it's that your democracy doesn't believe in taxes apart from funding the military.
@@matthiasdarrington3271 “Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.” - Thomas Sowell
@@matthiasdarrington3271 oh they love taxing us. Major infrastructure bill en route.
@@matthiasdarrington3271 While that is not completely true, we do spend a lot of the military. This is to our benefit and the benefit of those nations we have military alliances with. Many nations underspend on their defense as they depend on the US military for much of their defense. We spend hundreds of billions on nonmilitary spending as well. Our government loves to spend money. The interesting part is that in our Constitution, the only thing the government is obligated to spend money on is the military.
Never knew scandinavia started right above the alps
I still don’t.
They have big plans
Opppps really???
Carolus Rex is coming back it seems
LoL :-)
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And then we need Germany to finally upgrade their train infrastructure, without that we'll still have a massive bottleneck between Munich and Innsbruck where trucks keep piling up with no silver lining in sight.
i mean germany still hasn't finished their promised upgrades to the Rhein line which was supposed to be done to make the gotthard base tunnel fully utilised. At least in Italy they admitted they weren't gonna do it and let the Swiss do it for them xD
Hey, we finally installed electric power lines on the train tracks between Hamburg and Lübeck.
In 2008.
And we will be extending the power lines all the way to Fehmarn to connect to the tunnel the Danes are building. And maybe even add a second track so two trains can use it at the same time.
We're pulling out load! :p
@@Yora21 That Karlsruhe-Basel Rhein Line Upgrade won't be completed until the 2050s according to current Planning and the Upgrades on the Lübeck-Puttgarden aren't even decided to be built at all. If they get built, it will take at least 20 Years too.
@@Yora21 Wait...WHAT? Hamburg-Lübeck didn´t have power lines until 2008? :O
Well, at least we found out recently that the Internet is actually useful...
@@RSProduxx you know... from Switzerland to Munich they still don't have power lines...
Someone: "The Germans are boring"
Herrenknecht AG: "Yes. We are."
What do you mean?
@@MrBuild9357 It's a pun on the words "to bore" and "boring"
Not in football 😉
Nice joke. 😁 But I have to correct you. Austria and Italy do the main work for the tunnel. In Germany they are still discussing the new route of their railway, connecting to the tunnel (which begins in Innsbruck, Austria). So the tunnel starts in Austria, and ends in Italy.
@@Hanneskitz TBMs are from Germany
In "Richard Hammond's BIG" they made an episode about the tunnel.
Absolutely amazing project.
What's next?....lemme guess,project Ultron?
That's the other one - Gothard Base Tunnel...
This is the Bremner Pass Tunnel... 👍👍
Yes the EU are building 2 massive tunnels in the space of time the UK is flip flopping over HS2... 👍👍
Ignore me - BIG was about the Bremner...
There are still 2 tunnels through the alps once this is completed though... 👍👍
@@BassandoForte HS2 cuts through barely-finished housing estates, forests, and just about everything else. Tunnels cut through rock. Do you see the difference?
@@redd_cat - Yeah Tunnels take far longer to build...
But I agree - NIMBYS ruin the UK more than Brexiteers have... 👍
Mindblowing how many extraordinary projects go on that we don't even really know about, so big thanks to B1M & other great channels for enlightening us.
The most surprising part is it only cost 11 billion…that’s pretty cheap over 20 years
The more amazing part for me is project management over 20 years. That's like building a pyramid. You could start in your 40s and up retiring on the same project.
In Greece it would have costed 11Trillions. 11 billions would be needed just for the paperwork
Maybe 100 billions
Civil projects are never on time and *NEVER* on budget.
Indeed remarkable for a project that must involve quite a lot of Italians.
Meanwhile in the US $1B gets u a sports stadium that the government doesnt own & the public cant benefit from while railway construction is basically nonexistent 😂
What a poor comparison…
@@Settiis Actually, no, it is evidence of how far the USA has lagged behind in critical infrastructure. Our passenger trains are basically third world level, with freight trains always getting priority, leaving passengers sitting still for sometimes hours at a time. It happened to us in middle of night once. Society of Engineers almost a decade ago estimated three trillion dollars were needed immediately to invest in infrastructure that was failing or needed replacement. And here we are ten years later, still having taken no action. While Europe and China and Norway plunge ahead with fantastic investments that will reap social and economic benefits for decades to come.
@@HeartlandTuber Because the US has a massive highway system, and cars here are kinda cheap to own. Plus, people in the US like to flight more than taking a train, and that is why a high speed rail in CA failed. Also, these infrastructures are owned by private sectors, so when they don't make profits; they are not going to do it. A $1BN stadium is privately owned.
@@HeartlandTuber Yes, but the op compares private sector investments to goverment funded projects. The private investments are not to blame for something the goverment is lacking.
@@HeartlandTuber I like how Norway was mentioned separately from Europe lol
4:54 It's approximately 3 583 333 333 yodels, assuming a yodler with a lung capacity of 6 liters and assuming that every yodel drains this volume completely.
The US debt increases by this amount every 4 hrs = /
3.5 billion or millard wow
Lets see your workings....
I guess "The $11BN Tunnel Connecting Austria to Italy" wouldn't have sounded as interesting
That's how I'd prefer to see it - my guess is that the two countries involved are the ones footing the bill and doing the design work. There's another video on my reference list captioned 'Denmark is Building a Tunnel to Germany' with no reference to the EU - that's how it should be!
There are a lot of many finnish family that want to go to Malta by car. Obvious
@@thomasnorb4077 believe it or not, building this tunnel is actually easy compared to building a bridge on the Strait of Messina
@@RedKnight-fn6jr That is incorrect. The project is expected to cost 4.5 to 12 bn Euro and doesn’t nearly benefit Austria and Italy as much, as the trade within the EU in general. The EU pays close to half of the tunnel, the other half is split between Austria and Italy. This is a strategic project for the EU and the EU’s involvement has to be mentioned by all means. It is not just the money, the EU created the economic and social environment in decades earlier to even make this project relevant today. Remember that just 80 years ago, Europe was a bombed down war zone as the center of World War II. Today, transit traffic is a historically controversial topic in Austria. Being situated in Central Europe, it sees high volume of transit traffic, using its roads and infrastructure, polluting its environment, without direct economic benefits. So in the past, Austria negotiated to receive continuous compensation from the EU in exchange. You are correct however that much of the tunnel design work comes from Austria, given its expertise in tunnel building as being situated in a quite mountainous region with many tunnels of its own. Greetings from Austria.
Strudel meets Pasta!!?!
As an American, I see the world doing all these amazing projects and wish we were doing some too :/
Senator Moscow is more into not doing some too.
It is
hey, you are getting MOAR highways for MOAR F150 and large airports :) Not too bad :P
Its un-American to pay taxes, and sadly these projects are funded by taxes...
There was a big wall project at some point in the recent past, don't remember the purpose ;)
Proud to say I worked there for a while. It's amazing what they are doing.
omg thats so interesting!!! i want to hear more, what was it like??
What job were u doing there?
@@northscrow9316 Plant a seed, wait for a few years for it to mature and it'll give you fruits for years to come.
Glad you went back to little England
I had initially read this that the tunnel is going all the way….no. The tunnel is going through the Alps. This still a remarkable project.
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the network being created at EU level is going all the way, hence why the EU was mentioned in the video, and it wouldn t make sense to bypass entire countries
That's the point of the title of the video, to get you interested in something much more extreme, it's called clcikbait.
Now the tunnel between Denmark and Germany, The Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, is also being built, which makes it even faster than taking the detour across the island of Funen and Jutland.
Thank you! I've watched 10+ Brenner Base Tunnel videos, and between failing to understand thickly accented Italian engineers and a paucity of any interesting stats or unique detail in overly long and windy self-serving and frankly boring content, this is the first time someone's taken a real stab at putting together something interesting, actually "creating" something informative, it's an amazing project that deserves it. Thank you B1M. Big Fan!
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This is an amazing project. Just hope it won't be like with the Gotthard-tunnel here in Switzerland, when we built a groundbreaking tunnel, but Germany doesn't manage to build their rail tracks in the completely flat Rhine-river plateau and is expected to compleet it with an expected delay of 20 years... 😑😑😑
almost as if they do it on purpose to benefit the brenner tunnel
The same problem is present here in Austria unfortunately. Austria has already upgraded the routes which lead towards the Brenner Base tunnel a few years ago for billions of dollars (this route already consists of the two longest tunnels in austria currently) to a route for up to 230kmh, 4-track railway. All while germany hasn‘t done remotely anything to upgrade their railway which directly conntects to austria‘s brand new rail system. You really can see where austria ends and where germany starts when you drive across the border by train. From 230 constantly to 140 sometimes. And that on an old 2-track system with 2000378 level crossings.
What? Usually the Germans and Swiss are on time.
@@fallinginthed33p Well, not in terms of upgrading their railway. Germany is still very car depenend as many international automakers are based there. Except for some railway corridors in germany (for example the High Speed ICE lines), railway in germany is not adequate
maybe it’ll change and speed up with those new EU investments into rail they’ve been talking about lately.
I was wondering whether a tunnel connecting Scandinavia with the Mediterranean meant that someone was digging a tunnel through all of Europe.
Lol :) your comment is very intelligent, i admire it. so do you stay in Germany?
While technically possible, both the amount of money, as well as the excavated material, and all the entrances and exits, would be absolutely staggering.
So, economically viable: very, very probably not. Politically possible: even less so.
@@RustyDust101 That's exactly why I did a double take on the title of the video.
The cost who cares in the USA we just print/borrow forward whatever we want or need for our pet/pork projects, easy-peasy $$$$$$
@@laniejuanitawhitehurst1624 I think you're confusing money mismanagement with actual resource shortage.
Have you ever watched a few videos on Modern Monetary Theory -- MMT? You really should.
First of all, a government deficit is the amount of money the government has issued into existence minus the money it has taxed out of existence. That "deficit" is the amount of money in private hands, including the money in circulation, and you don't want that to be zero or there wouldn't be any money in added to a growing economy and everyone would go into deflationary hoarding mode.
If the government spends the money on useful infrastructure then that money is circulated, it grows the economy, and there might even be more money necessary just to facilitate the growth, meaning increasing the deficit is the way to go.
I'm afraid your attitude is exactly the reason why the infrastructure is crumbling in the US.
Now I'm not saying drilling a tunnel through the country would be useful infrastructure. But the fact that you're afraid of it because you think the government is like a household, who can go broke from too much spending, makes your fears the problem, not the solution.
A government can run out of labor resources and out of raw materials. Or it can see its infrastructure erode from not spending enough on its upkeep. But it can never run out of money.
You know, I think that sea between Finland And Sweden might be slightly harder problem...
The ferry between Sweden-Finland is sufficient to include it in the plan, since effective transport routes exist. An agreement to build a tunnel between Finland and Estonia was signed this year though.
There is 4 big ships that travel constantly between Turku and Stockholm and 4 more that travel from Helsinki to Stockholm. so no, its not so big of a problem.
So I was actually thinking: they are constructing a tunnel that starts in Scandinavia and ends at the Mediterranean? That's crazy!
So it's "just" a tunnel through the Alps. And it connects the highways all the way up to Scandinavia.
It's not for Scandinavia (28 Million people) only. It's for every country above Northern Italy so that's many, many more people. Hundreds of millions.
> And it connects the highways all the way up to Scandinavia.
Not the highways, the railroads. Railroads are much more sustainable and higher capacity too
@@mennoltvanalten7260 , Perhaps it will be possible to put the car on a train too at least through the tunnel.
It's also for every country below the alps
Saying that it's connecting Scandinavia and showing graphics of Helsinki is pure clickbait. The tunnel connects the north to the south of the Alps and that is all
Imagine all the energy that will be saved by the trucks transporting goods across that path. Pulling those hills takes a lot more fuel so the level road along with its one third distance will save tons of fuel, and hopefully keep prices of goods lower.
This is an incredible project that I had never heard of. It is an amazing feat of civil engineering. Bravo!
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Hi there, as an Austrian knowledgeable in the conversion into Yodels, i just want to say that 21.5 million cubic meters of material equal about 28.1 million YODL^3. That is because one YODL (Yard On Dry Land) equals about 1.09381 meters, so 21.5 million m^3 equal 28.12 million YODL^3 :)
Bless you.
i ll never forgive you for deleting my fantasy that yodl is not a measure unit from the average weight of yodelers, or how many yodelers does it take so that the sound reaches a neighbor mountain
@@jh5kl I'm so sorry. May i apologize by referring a classic yodel bop to you?
These massive engineering projects are always inspiring.
i hate when they call finland scandinavia cuz its not
At the same time the Lyon-Turino railway passing throught similar tunnel for same purpose is always delayed.... that sad
As an Italian I feel the need to apologize for both those little minded opposing movement and not determinated enough politicians.
@@REVOLUTIONS51 as a French, we do not have done what's necessary either. Hope this project will reinforce our coopération as latin and friend country
It is sad indeed that we let a small group of narrow minded people keep us from having a faster and more efficient connection with our cousins on the other side of the Alps. Union amongst Europeans should also be implemented with better and faster routes.
@@mariosebastiani3214 Sono d'accordo con te
@@REVOLUTIONS51 Your way of thinking and the way you disregards the cause of the people who in that valley live make me want to take their side even if I am personally not involved in any way. Maybe a little less feel of superiority would help to solve Italy's many issued, don't you think?
meanwhile in the USA, we have debates about whether repairing our infrastructure is worth taxpayer dollars
Don't worry, when a president finally starts that war with china to win reelection any uncertainties as to where taxpayer money goes to will vanish :)
Nah! funnel a few billion into a champagne socialists stadium usa don't even get to name or own instead, much better investment choice ^o^
Unfortunately your country became too corrupt after around 1970.
Don't worry, in Italy infrastructure collapses all the time.
M. Ass Sur. Veil. Lance. In every state Duhhhhh
Vids like this were the ones that motivated me to become a civil engineer. A truly amazing work of engineering!
This, together with the existing Gotthard base tunnel and the planned Lyon-Turin tunnel is gonna be a game changer
For all of the Elon Musk fanboys who think that the hyperloop is a feasible idea, this tunnel is under 60 km long, costs $11B, is taking decades to build, and is in no way vacuum tight.
And what do we put in this tunnel : A train. Because trains are the best mode of transport in the tunnel.
But elon is a genius, he created traffic on a tunnel that prevent traffic!
It would be so cost prohibitive to even try a hyper loop the size Musk wants. It’s much more practical to fund public transit and make a more robust train and bus system.
Yes and look up the cost of rocket flight before Elon introduced reusable rockets
@@peaceyteavo Musk is not an inventor, as much as he might like to style himself as one. He did not create reusable rockets. Thousands of talented engineers did - just like the thousands of talented engineers at all the OTHER aeronautics companies working on making rocketry cheaper.
now germany just needs to get up and finally build the german side of the tunnel to denmark
It would be faster to build around Germany and reroute the trains through Austria, Czechia and Poland.
Yeah we tried that with the Betuwelijn, their part should've finished around 2003 and the current goal is 2022
I believe they are actually starting. Check out the TH-cam channel DEGES , they recently released a video about this project.
Actually, Denmark is building the tunnel all by themself, Germany just upgrades their "Hinterland" - infrastructure. More importantly they have to work on their section following the Brenner-Pass to Munich.
@@Jup_94 And they are still debating on the route to Munich. And there are citizen getting the rail into a tunnel and still anoyed by that...
Imagine work there and have a feeling to have a secure job and project for the rest of your work life and then retire.
Wow, as an actual civil engineer supervisor it would be incredible, a 20 years project
Only proble is they they would have to move with the project the further it gets and companies would rather hire people as they move along exept for a few really qualified people and engineers. But yeah I would easily move with the project as it moved along its a great way to meet other people and cultures when working with them rather than travel to them
@@cryingalone7572 As long as countries don't mandate that they hike local workers. Then your job security ends at the border. This project is too big for one contractor to manage and build.
Not interested, I prefer to learn as much as I can about as much as possible in 20 years instead of spending that time digging a long hole!
I don't know what I'll be doing 3 years from now and that doesn't bother me at all as long as I'm doing something that I like...
@@ricardoaguilaranguia
Why there is no use of the melting rocks techniques??
If this were to be done in the US, it will cost $11B just to study it for 10 years and then another 15 years to debate it and get it approved with financing and then another 20 more years and $200B to build it.
Corporate America
the big dig is not the best example :)
Not quite, the second most expensive building ever is a ten year late government delayed power plant in EU's beloved Finland: metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world#:~:text=The%20Olkiluoto%203%20nuclear%20power,2%20Billion%20euros%20in%202003.
@@ismaelalejandro4150 check out my comment below
in china it would take two years instead of twenty. i actually don't know but they supposedly build massive bridges and buildings at lightening speed
Loved your recent stories on Instagram, very humbling stuff. Keep up the great work and don’t stop.
Thanks so much mate! Means a lot that you read that and commented here.
When hearing about how much new construction projects tend to cost, $11B suddenly isn't so bad.
wait for the final report on the costs - you can expect the number to be to be trippled
Once you see the valuation of 'tech' companies, everything seems justified.
Prices will only get lower as new innovation discoveries during this construction will make future ones cheaper, SpaceX only used pre-existing technologies, people believe he discovered them.
Nice! I had no idea about this.
One small detail: Finland isn't part of the Scandinavian countries. It is a Nordic country though.
And, more importantly, there are no passenger rail connections between Finland and Sweden, so the route isn't continuous.
@@juusotaskinen452 I believe the dotted line in the graphics is suppose to represent the ferry lines that do exist.
I mean Nordic countries won’t really exist after 2055 or so
That title is really weird and clickbaitish.
@@xx_mysticwolf_xx1492 Countries won't exist after 2030..... Allegedly!
US: Can't figure out building a railway through a desert
Europe: *casually puts multiple tunnels through the bottom of a mountain range*
it's not that the US can't but more so just wasting the money of Billionaires.
When you live in Europe but have no idea this tunnel existed
therell be nö decent quick public träncespört schinkhanzen 4 müllenjä -:-
@@cv507 Wut¿
then you must've been living under a rock
I can’t hear or feel any sounds or vibrations what is under 5 m of clay and below.
Because most Europeans won't use it, but think about how many Europeans are paying for it...
"...all the way from Scandinavia"
Shows picture of Finland, which is only linked by Ferry, and isn't even a part of Scandinavia.
@Peter Christensen
Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway and Denmark
The Nordics: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands and Greenland (sort of)
@Peter Christensen It is not. You’re on the internet, use it.
@@jfandersson3223 Maybe you should use the internet. Look up Scandinavian Peninsula. You will see, that the northwest of Finland is a part of it. Outside of the english language, the word scandinavia or its equivalents quite often includes Finland. If you look up the spanish (Escandinavia) or german (Skandinavien) wikipedia, you will find references to Finland.
@@HerrKazuya A part of Italy is on the Balkan peninsula. You would still not call it a Balkan country. A part of Russia is on the Scandinavian peninsula. But same there, no one calls Russia a Scandinavian country.
Finland isn't a Scandinavian country. I understand that a lot of People use the term wrong. Enough for it to land on Wikipedia. But it's still wrong.
This project is awesome. This is something that would be awesome to just tell someone and say yeah I worked on that project.
As a swiss person i was like "nooooo" they break our tunnel world record haha
Laughs in longest Road tunnel, (norway)
What's really crazy to me is that they did this for just $11B. A project like this in the USA would have been over budget like 10 times, delayed for decades, and end up costing like $100B over the initial target price.
That shows ya how much people in the US are being ripped off by contractors and government as well.
I believe Americans are not even attempting anything close to this scale anymore anywhere in the country.
Simply maintaining exciting infrastructure is like pulling teeth.
Americans used to think and believe on a grand scale at all times not too long ago.
What happened to us.
Going to the moon in less than 10 years!
Cross country railroad dug by hand through various mountain ranges in just 4y almost 200 years ago.....
In a few decades our infrastructure will look and feel like an old communism enclave.
Wow, B1M has the perfect videos for when you're on the throne
gross
Well thanks for sharing guys
Choo choo goes the brown train.
@@TheB1M That said, I know you guys are really big into saying "It connects Scandinavia to the Mediterranean!" but I feel like someone should probably mention the fact that Finland isn't Scandinavian.
wow this is the first time you made a misleading title!
all i could think is "are you sure u know where scandinavia is?! digging a tunnel from there to the mediterranian sea would be quite the tunnel indeed! tunneling under the whole of europe" 😲
I thought the same thing!
I guess what he meant was connecting the railroads that go all the way to the Mediterranean with the ones that go all the way to Scandinavia.
They obviously aren't aware, since Finland isn't part of Scandinavia...
@@bennylofgren3208 TH-camrs really are confusing Scandinavia with Nordic countries way too often..
@@Real_MisterSir I too think the same; what is the difference?
You should do a video on the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link! Obviously while the Alps project cuts travel times and benefits everyone in the corridor, the FBFL has a greater implications for Scandinavians looking to travel to Europe (and vice versa) without having to take the train through the entirety of Denmark.
Impressive, However, why from Scandinavia to Malta? Nowhere is talked about a tunnel linking the mainland to the island? This would imply that Malta would be connected to Italy via a tunnel.
The Sovereign Military Order is secretly building it as a means to invade and overthrow the republic.
😁
@@grantorino2325 they're doing it in broad daylight.
Or from Mainland Italy, to Sicily.
0:05 its part of the Scannet corridor.
ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/infrastructure/scandinavian-mediterranean_en has all the projects
A video about Romania's 500mil euro project Brăila Bridge over Danube would be awsome.
And there they will find the The Arkenstone :D
Rather that thing than the other thing.
Or a Balrog.
@Amit Trivedi The Times of India reported last week that it was found somewhere between Manali and Leh
@@johndelilo6038 I do not think so, there they did not dig the 'heart of the mountain', but being beautiful it was only skin deep. Lol.
Meanwhile in America...."what's a train?"
The scale of this is stunning!
Another reminder that Europe is incredibly beautiful.
Parts.
As if it wasn't said already endlessly before
Europe or EU?
We could have done this without the EU.
And this is all funded by the nations; the EU being the middle man.
Yup, now enjoy seeing kilometers of concrete instead of natural landscapes.
@@hhhhh98764 Better than being stuck in traffic for 5 hours and barely moving even afterwards. I'll take starting at concrete and thinking about the beautiful destination in say 25 minutes than starting at the same exact beautiful location for 5 hours as I read in one of the comments.
Technology developed for the Gotthard is being used here, thus reducing specific costs.
Many austrians worked on the Gotthard project and then brought this extra experience, they were very well experienced before, make that the tunnel costs less per km than the Gotthard.
Didn't the Gotthard base tunnel cost 9.6 billion in the end and is longer than the Brenner base tunnel? If the 11 billion projected cost from this video's title are correct, your comment doesn't really add up. That doesn't mean though that the Brenner is cheaper due to the experience from the Gotthard, because it's entirely possible that the Brenner has a geological composition that makes it more expensive than the Gotthard, i don't know though.
@@Naryoril the tunnel per se will be shorter than the Gotthard base tunnel but the junction with the existing structure will make it the longest underground rail tunnel experience in the world.
Actually news from Asia indicate this record may not last long.
The cost is higher but counting in for inflation the same will be less expensive.
@@Braun30 The "in junction with the existing structure it will be longer" doesn't really count unless you also factor in the cost for that back in the day, or is that part if the 11 billion? But yeah, i forgot about the inflation, that would explain it. Let's hope the Brenner doesn't end up being about 50% more expensive than projectet at the beginning like the Gotthard did.
I remember driving by there 10 years ago when I lived in Munich and they were already working on it. Forgot about it and now I realize it's still not that close to being finished. What a massive project. Maybe when we visit friends in Munich we can more easily take a side trip to Italy via the tunnel in the future. Surely better than paying the absurd toll prices for the Autostradas in Italy. Never forget arriving in Rome to find that we owed over 50 Euros in tolls from Northern Italy to Rome. Couldn't believe it. And that was 8-9 years ago!
Probably costs almost double now, but costs almost as much as one way trip train ticket from Milan to Rome for 3hrs ride.
@@nadir8804 Roads should be cheaper. I'm the only keeping up my car, unlike the train.
@@TomWatsonB1 I agree with you, just that the toll money goes for the road maintenances, or at least that's what it's meant to be for.
Meanwhile we have bridges with giant cracks in them and haven't built anything new and forerunning in decades in America.
But you got a great military to threaten the rest of the world with!
Why would anyone want to build anything in a country currently in cultural an economic freefall?
@@datadavis Well US has so many issues its hard to know where to start. Their unproductive massive suburbs, that require so much pavement per person.
Alot of cities in america are bankrupt and cannot afford to maintain all the pavement. I mean their road system is just horrible with their stroads, that try to combine a road and a motorway. But ends up being an uneffective, huge piece of pavement to maintain.
This altso spreads out population alot, making rail even harder to build.
Oh and not to mention companies have gotten all political power in the US. So the US is currently being looted by them, the greatest looting in history i would say.
Such immense wealth some have gained, while population starves in poverty. An empire due to fall.
I can only vision USA lasting for 8 too 20 years longer before they cave in on themselfs. Either by the population rising up (unlikely how they have been indoctrinated from birth) but could happen. And a civil war starts.
Or the economy will totaly collapse, foreign influence and intrest will take over. (Bit like how america influenced Europe after ww2)
But some in US think military will fix anything.. But its only partly true. An normal economy would allready collapse from printing 40% of all dollars in existance in 16months. But US dollar since its global trading currency is resistant to inflation. Since foreign powers hold trillions in that currency. So when US prints more money, they dont only steal from their citizens, they altso steal from foreign powers...
But thats only aslong as the trust is there.. Once the trust goes, everything goes.
@@MrDanisve they just need to invent a new enemy and a new eternal war to keep the war machine rolling 🤷🏿♂️
That is simply a lie, you have no idea what the United States is doing because you do not work in civil engineering. Mostly the reason you see collapsed structures is the result of privatizing construction and now....even inspection.....
This is an example of what Can be done if you don’t spend 50% of your government budget on the military. Take note of this US.
Well since we're actually providing protection for most of these countries, you have no point.
@@evansjohnc Protection from whom? We squander over $750B/year on defense. More than the next 47 biggest spenders on defense. You can't justify that wastage of money. Add to that the $60+B/year we piss away on a drug war while still allowing alcohol and tobacco which are proven problems. We spend so much on defense so that some of that money can come back to the congress critters in the form of campaign donations. Instead we could be spending that money on things that would truly make our country a better place for everyone or not spend it and reduce our debt which is grown to outlandish proportions of our GDP.
Yeah, Austria spends just 0,6 % for the military, so there is money for tunnel projects.
@@MarkJones USA spends around 10% on defence and it keeps USD from falling despite massive printing
@@hphp31416 10% of what? GDP?
In Malta we have had many debates on whether to have a tunnel or a bridge between the two main islands: Malta & Gozo. This has been going on since the 1960s. And, now, out of nowhere, Malta is in a connectivity plan with mainland Europe?
And you still need to be connected to Sicily... Wich still needs to be connected to the continent with that f***ing bridge.
This tunnel is a true modern-day engineering marvel
The BIM is one of my fav youtube channel ❤️
As a former construction worker, I can honestly say this is an enormous project!!!
As an economist I say this is incredible waste of money. As a systems engineer I would say it's dumb.
@@ralfsteiner7751 well, that’s your opinion (and you have a right to your personal opinion); but I disagree.
I have always admired the construction sectors. I am in love with the infrastructure projects and curious about them(in a good way).BUT projects like this one have a special meaning to me. It means that lots of people put the effort into something that will probably change the way we travel. As a European i feel proud to see projects like this and I pray that one day I will be able to use these infrastructure projects and travel to all of Europe. Different countries came together to create a better tomorrow. RESPECT!!!
I love how it's cheaper to drill through an entire mountain then to build NYC subway lines 🤣
Love this.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, we are still waiting for a subway tunnel through the sepulveda pass
L.A. where a man can get shot to death by cops for jaywalking (at daytime, small road, no cars, no resistance), .....and a rich man driving twice the speed limit, endangering others, gets off with no ticket nor fine (Tiger Woods). Y'all need to fix your police force.
@@brahmburgers chill dude. Your rant has nothing to do with public transit.
born in LA, living in the bay area, waiting for the CA high speed rail project (which isn't going to even be that high speed compared to those in asia and europe) get finished sometime during my lifetime! :-P sigh.
Good wait, be patient.
America in general is an embarrassment when it comes to fast, reliable public transport infrastructure. I really don't understand the aversion to trains, they're the more effective way to move long distances at speed and move a crap load of things or people in one go. They literally connected both coasts and sparked a massive economic golden age which made it the superpower it is today, but for some reason after the war it was decided that cars are the only thing that's of importance, everyone needs their own, private vehicle. Only commies and poor people share their space when traveling and trains fell by the wayside outside of freight. Ironically Russia has a far better passenger railway network and it's a great deal more barren and massive than the USA, so they can't even use the "the country is too huge!" excuse.
'Let's do a video on this crazy long tunnel in the Alps. We just need a clickbaity title... Anyone?'
I'm pissed off because I fell for it too...
@@remkojerphanion4686 Wha..?
Thought it would be about the "FinEst Link" (Finland to Estonia tunnel)
amazing how people can t grasp the concept of a network
I am from northern Italy, about 200km away from the site, and I had no idea this was going on. I cross the Brenner pass driving on the highway at least 2 times per year, still had no clue. They are hiding it very well and probably on purpose, because they want to avoid the kind of uprisings that happened because of the construction of the tunnel in Val di Susa (a bit more west, connecting with France)
I remember going over the Brenner Overpass when I was a boy. We were going from Heidelberg Germany to Verona Italy. The Overpass is amazingly high, and very impressive. The highway certainly made the trips to Italy easier than they were previously.
Italy = NIMBY = an annoyance to progress.
Apparently there are tunnels made for ships between some of the fjords in Norway, so upon reading the title I thought they were connecting like the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean via an underground river. So kinda like how vikings would travel trough Russia, but with 21st century engineering.
Slightly misleading titles aside, that would be a CRAZY project.
Love how the people at 3:59 put their fingers in their ears when faced with an explosion, instead of putting on earmuffs :P
Yeah but you can find your fingers quicker.
They won't be in the direct area of the Blast probably just for echoes in the tunnel.
Imagine where Europe would be today if every war in its history were replaced with international engineering projects.
PG Troika overlooks human nature. Not all societies in Europe share the discipline to work hard and save. Some workers and their unions want to retire at age 50 and take long summer vacations but they would like to enjoy the benefits of what I see here.
if you dare to think about it, without the war we would not be as technologically advanced as we are, by far
Wars are international engineerng projects.
@@epajarjestys9981 An interesting thought with some validity.
So what happens between Sicily and Malta? Everyone goes for a swim?
Great way to build without destroying the majestic landscaping
The alps are gonna look like Swiss cheese after all this.
That's no gouda.
@@andyharman3022 😅😆😂😃😅😆
After this ? Enjoy :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tunnels_in_the_Alps
@@brixtonianme9717 interesting! Ty
@@andyharman3022 cheesy.
Never clicked this fast.
108th!!
Just to make it very clear Finland is NOT a part of Scandinavia and has never been, Scandinavia consists of these three countries Denmark,Norway and Sweden. Please do your research thank you :)
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Finland is part of the Nordic council, but not Nordic. Nord is a cultural term. Finland has a different culture. Scandinavia is the geographical region of Denmark, Norway, & Sweden.
Iceland is Nordic however.
More of problem you go by boat across the Baltic. Which is sloooooow and filled with drunk people 😂
…So we’ll just ignore that time Finland was ruled by Sweden, and the fact that Swedish is still Finland’s second language…
I think the whole world sees you all as sort of sister states so it's easy to classify yall together.
@@ipadair7345 Finland is most definetly a nordic country, Finns consider themselves nordic and have many cultural similarities with orther nordic countries.
Watching this before going out to work a night weekend shift on track, makes my job seem worthwhile..
Yodel-ay-eee-ooo
The true beauty of some beautiful constructions stay hidden in the mountains or underneath our feets.
an african looking bangladeshi with an arab name. What a small world
@@nishhnishh1088 Your right about that,
& in this crazy world my nickname is “Max”.
So most teachers call me The Outlier.
And yet England can’t dig through the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield 🙄
Was about to comment the same, bit annoying given that UK funds will have gone towards this project.
as much as i'd like to pick in the UK, I'd not accuse them with ease. In such projects the soil, rock or other terrain aspects can make it a project unfeasible; Maybe the return for the project isn't there?
@@garhull11 the route mentioned has been tunnelled three times. It’s just doesn’t have any political will behind it. And it goes through a national park.
@@garhull11 Unfeasable is only when it is technically impossible. Else you think in terms of 100 years of development.
They are busy upgrading and increasing the nuclear stockpile. Russia may invade anytime.
This seems like a good idea until you wake a sleeping dragon and the only people left to stop it are Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, and Christian Bale.
You gotta cover the new Lyon - Turin rail link next. The Mount Cenis Base tunnel there is slightly longer than this one and is due to be completed around the same time.
At a transportation meeting:
"What's the fastest way past the alps?", asked the investor.
"Around!", said the man with too much time.
"Over!", said the man with too much adventure.
_"Through.",_ said the man with *_a really big fucking shovel._*
Sometimes, it's not the fastest way that gets you the best results.
Sometimes, just bloody sometimes, _you gotta move mountains to pass them._
Sometimes, you just have to be rich to get even richer ;)
At the cost of the mountains and everything that lives on them and all the ecosystem that's dependent on them now and in the future
This project is truly a milestone of railway construction. Austria already built a new high-speed track which connects to this tunnel for billions of euros in order to accommodate all the traffic which is projected. In total, a four line track is running across the "Inntal" (two newly build tracks for 230km/h which runs underground almost completely and the two tracks which already existed before ,which have been upgraded) to service the tunnel. However, such a transportation axis is only as strong as it's weakest link, which in this case is germany. German politics have consistently opposed to upgrade their railway infrastructure directly across the border to Austria. It currently consist of a standard 2-track system built ages ago. With level crossings and regional train stations every kilometer.
If germany doesn't finally move forward with that project (which they actually promised to do wayyy back when this transportation axis was envisioned by the EU), the whole project will be (drastically speaking) useless as almost all traffic for the Brenner Base tunnel will origin in germany.
Forget it, nothing will happen in germany. Germany also promised (1996) to expand the train connections to the Gotthard tunnel and look where they are today.
@@thomaskramer4739 The problem in Germany with public projects is that every citizen can complain and every complain has to be heard. There's lots of multinational projects where other nations are already finished with building and germany is still planning.
Your videos much better than many others because of the speaker. Only one reason, but very important.
So they’re cutting through the Alps, NOT Norway. Gotcha Clickbait
W-what?
I like engineering, this is inspiring.
Well, that's nice. It's a bit of a shame, maybe, that the trains can't go even faster, considering how massive this project seems to be.
What astounds me is the feeling of being well deep into the tunnel nearing the end, and hoping you'll come out the other end where you planned.
they probably started at both ends and meet up somewhere in between, it's a common time reducing strategy used in most tunnels, the precision to do so has been round for quite some time !
Ok, yea, that´s cool. But after reading that title i wanted to see a video about a tunnel crossing under the whole of central Europe.
Once again, those historic words are repeated,
"There shall be no Alps!"
Just detonate enough nukes in that tunnel🤔
Historic from where?
@@Matt_Alaric these words were first uttered by Napoleon, that's why
Yeah, blast the alps
I’m 19 and remember hearing about this years ago when I was in primary and it’s still going I’m currently studying mechanical engineering and who knows I might work there one day 🤷🏾♂️😂
I'm 65 and remember hearing engineers talk about tunneling through the Alps when I was a kid. I want to travel to Europe just so that I can take a ride through it.
I think the Chinese can finish in 2 years everything, maybe consult them
Why is the cost presented in US dollars when the presenter is, or at least, sounds British, and the project is based in Europe- an EU project. Surely the cost should have been in Euros???🥺🧐🙄
everyone knows what the dollar is and approximately what it's worth
London drilling machine mate +£ is worth more than the Euro 💶. and the US$ is the lowest value you figure it out
Cause America is #1..........deaaaaal with it
@@hanscakestealer8546 Number one in what? Egoism?
@@HeadhunterKev96 Economy