Jersey Wants To Build A Bridge To France... But Why?
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- Why would anyone want to actively bring MORE French people into their country???
Not that Jersey
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Finally someone has decide to use my idea of building a bridge from New Jersey to France. I'll be able to enjoy a bagel, egg,and cheese in the morning and then drive over to Paris for some shopping 2 days later.
A very reasonable car journey by American standards! 😏
@@misspat75552 day drive that's 15 minutes in American driving time
Knowing that it’s New Jersey, I shudder thinking about their driving skills
Bridge from New Jersey to Jersey when?
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Fun fact: they are currently building a tunnel between Puttgarden (Germany) and Rodby (Denmark) to replace the ferry.
Not bad at all, idea. Making it work is fun.
When we're France and England so-connected?
Yeah there is a great video from the B1M about the Projekt
You can find information about this project under the term "Fehmarn Belt fixed link".
I was going to comment this too
It's a fact... not sure its a fun fact though lol
Randomly advertising a multi-function air-fryer is the most fun niche meme I can laugh at that no one would understand me on, and that's exactly the content on this channel I subscribe to.
I really thought New Jersey was gonna build a 3000 mile long bridge across the Atlantic
Is there a limit to how self-centered you americans can be
Same LOL
HA! HA! HA!
But Why? ---> Simply for ibx2cat being able to drive to the only McDonald’s on Jersey.
the governments of the US and Canada shudder in fear of toycat indirectly causing a disaster
Seriously, have the president and prime minister been warned?!? 😰
Jersey resident here. This idea has been floated by the government before but it’s not that popular locally. Whilst it would provide more reliable transport links to France than our ferry service, most people here don’t think the cost of building it is feasible without MAJOR private investment. To put things into perspective, the government has spent nearly a decade rambling on where to build a new hospital, with the expected cost reaching nearly £1 Billion. Factor in a cost-of-living crisis, and sadly it’s unlikely a bridge or tunnel will be built any time soon.
I seriously had an American Moment™ and thought the title was about New Jersey
A bit of wishful thinking :/
15:08 is nobody mentioning number 23 on the Amazon list then? No?
I thought until I saw the thumbnail it was a bridge from the state of New Jersey all the way to France. (Since people from NYC called New Jersey as just Jersey…) would that even be possible?
French rich people wanting a land connection to a new tax haven: yes.
😂😂 exactly
It should be said that the proposed bridge to France is very unpopular in Jersey right now and very few people outside of the government actually support it. People are far more interested in our hospital project being finished, which has taken 10 years and costed £1 billion so far (nothing has yet been built) or our government fixing the crippling housing crisis here and are less interested in headline grabbing vanity projects. Also, just because we are a “wealthy island” (we are not, we have almost the same mean income as the UK) that doesn’t mean we have a corresponding high tax revenue. You see, being a tax haven means we don’t see much of that tax money either.
And I don’t know how many times it needs to be said, but a geography channel should know that Jersey is NOT a part of the United Kingdom! We do not follow UK law and are not constitutionally a part of the UK, as recognised domestically and by the international community. Also the international/local market thing is from Guernsey, not Jersey! It is quite easy move to Jersey from the UK and buy property here.
That being said, there are a lot of people in Jersey who support closer links to France, just not like this. We are building closer connection to France recently in more practical (and less worthy of international headlines, apparently) ways to build mutual support. All of our energy already comes from France, which France illegally threatened to cut off a years ago during the fishing dispute some may remember. When the UK was having shortages of food goods, Jersey just imported Carrefour food from France to stock up our shop shelves. There has also been talks of opening a Carrefour on Jersey itself. As said in the video, we also have recently allowed French tourists to come over to Jersey on holiday for 3 days without showing their passports to by-pass the Brexit shitshow border mess plaguing Calais-Dover. We did attempt back in 2008 to switch to Central European Time in a referendum, but this was rejected 72%-28%, with only a 44% turnout.
Theyve spent a billion on a hospital without anything even being built?? That is impressive
Delighted that the Ninja SF301 12 in 1 speedi rapid cooker segment has returned. This is the content I subscribe for. Looking forward to future segments regarding the superiority of the Ninja OL501 14 in 1 cooker, might take some getting used to
Mate, Jersey isn't in the UK. The UK is *only* England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
We don't have UK passports, our Jersey passports make that very clear. We are still British, but not citizens of the UK. We govern ourselves, but the UK is responsible for defending us on behalf of the Crown.
As put by Jersey's official government website:
"Jersey is not part of the United Kingdom and is not represented in the British Houses of Parliament. By charter and convention, the UK Parliament does not legislate for the Island without consent. The UK Government, on behalf of the Crown, retains formal responsibility for the Island’s defence and, to some extent, its foreign affairs. However, it is settled constitutional practice that the UK consults Jersey before it may bind the Island to obligations in international law."
To avoid this and the confusion above, the Island of Jersey should be made a part of the State of New Jersey.
the uk is such a mess lol, every single part of it is technically a different country totally unrelated the uk if you listen to online pedants.
I remember when france single handedly changed the constitution of the totally independant republic of monaco without there being international reactions.
Almost as if all those technically totally independant countries aren't really all that independant and to the eyes of everyone that matter these are just irrelevant autonomous territories of a bigger country.
And here I was talking about a "country" which has her own UN seat, not some irrelevant feudal remnant that doesn't have its own foreign policy.
If any of these pseudo countries ever decides to go against british interest in a noticeable way then britain is simply going to let the locals understand that they aren't really the ones in control, and if they somehow don't understand then they'll simply forcefully be kicked out with the tacit approval of every single international body.
Didn't he address this at 2:12?
@@shsd4130 "...and that is what ultimately makes it a part of the UK" is what he says after saying everything that disproves that very statement.
There is an interestingly large amount of people who are claiming Jersey to be "the UK" when no one actually from Jersey (myself included) have ever identified themselves as being UK born. We're British, but we're not "the UK", just like how all of our ID states as such.
You've haunted my dreams every night, waking up in a sweat thinking about what I've been told to do, constantly receiving ads about air fryers, and the only way I can stop this nightmare is to come back to this video and buy it. I just bought the air fryer, I hope you are happy.
Has one ever been truly first.
Yeah about 7 years ago it was possible. Now it’s just turtles all the way down.
The locations of the Canadian and US capitals actually make perfect sense when you consider the history of colonization. Colonizers came across from the UK, Spain, etc., which means crossing the Atlantic and landing on the east coast. The west took longer to colonize. Then countries were being formed and declaring independence, the settlements in the east were more developed, more populated, and closer to other big population centres. You can still see the effects when you look at population density maps, distribution of representation in government, etc. Most of Canada's largest cities are in Ontario and Quebec. An overwhelming number of seats in parliament represent Ontario and Quebec.
Hello from a Brit, living in France and commuting into Geneva everyday
10:15 that area between Italy and Sicily is seismically active and it may not be safe to build a bridge there
If even Greece can afford a bridge in one of the worlds most seismically active areas in the world, Italy shouldn't have too much difficulty putting one up. As for the mob who runs the ferries to Messina, welp, they'll need to figure that out as well.
born and raised in jersey, so excited for this video!!!!
mate if we arent a country then why do we have a flag emoji, checkmate
living in jersey is very hard! everything is expensive here and most jobs do not pay enough here to live sustainably on your own
being american and more familar with *new* jersey this sounded even more ridiculous in my head
Everything in Jersey is about tax avoidance 😊
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I have no idea what the whole amazon rice cooker segment was about but I'm all for it 😂
Jersey is not in the UK btw
The vast majority of jersey residents can’t afford to own property and won’t be able to for a very very long time, so being able to live in france and easily commute to the island would be a nice thing
Of course, Toycat would choose D.C. for his Halloween trip! 🤦♀️ D.C. is for the Fourth of July, Toycat! Though I’m sure you’ll see some interesting stuff there for Halloween, other places (like Salem, Massachusetts, home of the famous witch trials, and New England, in general), would be better… oh well, anyway, park outside the city limits and take the Metro. I’m not even joking; the Metro is super easy to ride, whereas driving around D.C. will simultaneously give you gray hair and ulcers; I’ve done it, and… yeah… 😬😰😱 (Glad to hear you’re going to get away for a bit! 👍)
When I saw the title definitely thought it was referring to the state of New Jersey I was like... bold but okay
10:09 Hey! The train that literally crawls onto a ferry and floats across the gap to and from Sicilly is perfect just the way she is!
ooh I live in Ottawa, is there any place you're going? you might get a glimpse of the O-tr*in
If you think about it's kinda messed up. They want to become richer, which is understandable. But at the same time they want their garbage truck drivers and their cashiers to live somewhere else. I don't think that would be sustainable in the long run.
FINALLY someone talked about the 'Ferry-free E39 project' in Norway. I partially did my A-level EPQ on this INSANE project and would love to send you my work so you can make a proper video on it because there still hasn't been a good detailed one on youtube about it.
Also I'm genuinely gutted you couldn't visit Israel, I was so excited for you to experience its uniqueness and complexity
I wonder what horrible human tragedy will happen in Washington DC and Ottawa now the ibx has booked his trips there
I'd argue that psvita edition Minecraft is our lord and saviour. probably my favourite version and it still has active minigame lobbies to this day
Ps: fuzzy cat,
It's maybe obvious and kit for you to ask about it in the end,
The two eastern North American capitals has to do a lot with their being settled.
If you didn't know DC was created to be the capital and is otherwise a location a city wouldn't have been built on, and Ottawa I'm Canadian and I forget if I knew why that happened
Surely he has to be aware that at the time that America and Canada needed to pick capitals, most of their population was in their east regions? Surely he was just joking around? 🤔
Basically, Ottawa was created because the English and French Canadians couldn't make up their mind on where to put the national capital without giving too much power to one side. Eventually the queen of UK decided to settle on a location along the Ottawa river. There was a small logging village there already, so it wouldn't be too difficult to expand upon. It was chosen because it was on the border between then Upper Canada (anglophone) and Lower Canada (Quebec); far enough away from both Montreal and Toronto to avoid influence; fairly defendable, as it was well inland and up a hill; and probably because it was a beautiful location to put a capital.
So yeah, we basically have the same backstory as Australia's capital.
I can listen to toycat talking about ninja air fryers all day
Why are you bouncing up-and-down? Are you having a seizure?
good idea I have worked in Jersey and you can see the French coast and the sea is relatively shallow.Jersey is famous from famous bitches but North east the cost is not pretty probably the less attractive.
makes no sense. Jersey has an island identity. why destroy that. 25km distance will also make it hard to build a bridge
Access to medical treatment
Gibraltar has a strong identity and is connected by land to Spain.
The great britain and france are connected by a tunnel but the brits still keep their island identity
This is such a bad argument, I don’t see how it would “change their identity”, but even if it would, who cares? If it will significantly benefit their population, then do it, if not, then don’t.
A road is not a great idea, even for electric vehicles. A single track rail tunnel with an emergency corridor in the same tunnel is better - purpose build rescue vehicles - passenger only.
On guernsey we would have a station and depot at St Sampson Guernsey (0 km), another station at St Peter Port (4 km), Jerbourg Guernsey coast (8 km), (under sea 28 km), North West Jersey coast (36 km), Jersey Airport Station (42 km), St Helier (49 km), east Jersey coast (57 km), (under sea 27 km), west French coast (84 km), tunnel end (86 km), La Haye former rail station (93 km), Baupte former rail station (106 km), Carentan les Marais Station of Cherbourg Line (115 km).
Thus, the line would be 55 km under sea, with a total tunnel length of 86 km if it was prefered the line be underground in Guernsey and Jersey, with 29 km aboveground in France of which 22 km would be former rail corridor. While Guernsey and Jersey should build and operate the 93 km to La Haye, which will have a special platform for the island trains, France should rebuild and operate the 22 km of aboveground line to Carentan les Marais. Jersey and Guernsey will have two stations each and France will restore two stations. Battery operated trains and resuce vehicles will save huge infrastructure costs. A Guernsey/Jersey contractor will operate the line and trains between Guernsey and La Haye, and France will be responsible from La Haye. We should expect direct trains from Paris to La Haye, and cordinated trains from La Haye to St Sampson. Jersey and La Haye will need train depots as well.
Sorry to disappoint you but Norway is not building any magic floating tunnels, but they are planning a 5 km (3 miles) long floating bridge over a fjord somewhere between Bergen and Stavanger.
Norway is planning submerged floating tunnels several places, but as far as I know none of them have started the construction phase so you never know if they'll be built or not. But my guess is they will at some point, there's just more science and experimentations needed.
They are also planning floating bridges, but these are a completely different matter and unrelated.
Just because they're planning one of them doesn't mean they're not planning the other, so it's kind of a weak line of logic you used there.
we are building a long and deep motorway tunnel under boknafjorden which is the fjord right north of stavanger and in the planning stage for the floating tunnel and some other subsea tunnels, however hordfast which replaces the second ferry between stavanger and bergen has gotten into some issues bc the new enviromental study came out negative
@@espenlinjal If you look at the map, it is actually possible to build a tunnel instead of that 5 km bridge. You can build it a little further in where the fjord is 200 m deep. The travel time will be 5 minutes longer if they would build the tunnel instead of the bridge.
@@estraume yeah that is more likely tbh but it is still in the planning stage and the project as a whole (ferjefri E39) is running into budget issues
@@Nabium Check the website of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, especially "Ferjefri E39." You will only find normal bridges and tunnels there. As a Norwegian citizen, I get my information from the responsible public authority for this work, not from clickbait videos on TH-cam that speculates on how you could build a floating submerged tunnel.
Nobody look through the bought items
I hope this video is just bashing France and asking why they would want to be finnected to somewhere as terrible aa Feance
And this would benefit France how, exactly?
They are not going to allow it.
Cheapo video, not extraordinary just zooming in and out of the map and a man screaming loud.
"Screaming"? How sensitive is your hearing?
I think an underground railway from France to guernsey via jersey would be the best option
10:09 I saw the answer to this in a reddit comment recently, and it's basically bebcause of tectonic activity!
15:06 10.7 is rookie numbers
Jet lag Tag across europe could be different with this
The world needs a bridge from Greenland to Antarctica l.
If my understanding of maps is correct, that would only require a small segment from Greenland northward, right?
@@hetwitblad6544 your understanding of maps is amazing
@@hetwitblad6544 ly wrong
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Oh, toycat booked a flight to DC, so if you live there get the hell out now before whatever disaster happens
Hurricane is my guess. The season isn’t technically over yet! 🌀
me when my home shows up in a youtube video
Please, do not do this.
I've always wondered how bridges get built under the water. Like do the supporting things(?) reach the sea floor??
they’re never built over an ocean since it’s too deep, but most other bodies of water aren’t an issue
One of the ways is pretty spectacular, they build a temporary dam where they want the pillars and pump away the water.
But having a hollow floating pillar the pump in water to let it sink and replace the water by concrete to make it more permanent.
According to Google, the longest straight line you can make across the sea without touching land is one going from Pakistan to Russia. If we built a bridge between the two it would be 19,939.6 miles long.
The most on topic toy cat second channel (geography) video yet
Why don't they use the money they would spend on a bridge to heavily discount boat/ferry tickets there?
I could see New Jersey doing this.
Let’s Sips build it
Well, that bridge, like the bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland, or like the HS2 going to Manchester, Leeds or Sheffield, is never going to happen.
Imagine being one those people that commutes to Geneva from France. If you wanted to buy lunch whilst at work in Geneva you would have to have Swiss Francs, but in order to buy something from somewhere near to your home back in France, you'd need to have euros. I find it interesting to think that some people might have to carry two different currencies on them every single day, not just whilst on holiday, I wonder if there are people who commute across the US Mexico border or the US Canada border? Mexico has pesos, US has US dollars and Canada has Canadian dollars, so you'd need two currencies if you commute across either of those two borders as well. How do you not gets your coins mixed up? Carry two different wallets distinct enough to be able to tell which is for which currency? Sure, you can just use your credit card, but not everywhere has card reading facilities. Where I live you can't use your card on the bus or at the chippy. Some fancy restaurants don't have card reading facilities either. In fact I don't think some of the local takeaways around here have card reading facilities either, if you want to pay by card you have to order off Just Eat which costs a lot more money and not all of them are on Just Eat, Uber Eats, Deliveroo or anything else. My local barbershop only recently got card reading facilities installed. I guess to avoid having to carry two different currencies you can just only go to places that have card reading facilities and that you don't get robbed at gun point or that if you do they don't mind going through the hassle of exhanging currencies otherwise you're getting shot.
Living in the border region of Ireland/Northern Ireland this is a thing. Maybe not as much anymore with contactless payments, but yeah having to deal with different currencies, different phone networks, road signs etc is just a part of life
Is Guernsey planning on building bridges to Jersey and France?
Ok Andrew, now I'm concerned. What "Australian" food did you go get? It better be properly Australian, mate.
My guess is Outback Steakhouse, which yes, I’m aware is “Australian”. 🤪
Why isn't there a bridge between Poland and Jersey? I think it would be beneficial for both territories
i think there should be a bridge from greenland to antarctica which goes through the atlantic ocean
I hope you enjoy your visit to Ottawa. You’re coming at a great time. Lots of colour is the trees, and the weather isn’t too cold… yet. Maybe I’ll bump into while you’re here. Of course , that seems unlikely as I rarely venture too far outside my neighbourhood these days. Ha ha ha. Anyhow, have a great time.
I used to live in Jersey hahah
Is it not pronounced sta van ga ?? Serious question I always feel so silly if I’ve been pronouncing a word wrong
I thought it was New Jersey USA
And London is all the way South. Meh, whatever re capital cities.
They are actually working on a fehmarn belt tunnel to link germany and denmark more efficiently.
There's also a lot more people in Copenhagen and Sweden that want to go to Germany and vice versa...
Weirdest but actually also not a click bait because it's an island not America
London and Paris are not the two bigest cities in Europe....
Interesting way to execute a sponsorship deal 😂
Not worth it for such a small population.
90 times more people live in New Jersey than in Jersey
To aid in the colonisation of cherbourg and caen 😂
History will repeat itself
I get the feeling there's going to be a sudden east coast hurricane on the horizon...
I come here for the Ninja section :D
I didn't realise that the Channel Islands are actually part of the UK.
They're not. Nor is the Isle of Man. Given the subject matters he covers on his channel he should know better.
In DC, you can go trick-or-treating from embassy to embassy on Halloween!
Dosent Naples have a lot of earthquakes? I'm no bridge nerd but could be the issue
The bridge we really need is Canada to Greenland to Iceland to Scotland.
7:33 meanwhile Istanbul and Moscow
Balls! I just commented to the same effect! Somehow I missed your comment, despite going through the comments to see did anybody else make the point - don'tcha _hate_ when 87 people make the same obvious point, without taking even a minute to see has it already maybe been brought up in the comments?! Still, better two people saying it, than no~one... That said, I'm kind of half - hoping for a row between the Turks and the Russians over who has the _bigger_ biggest city!
That is an expensive project for 100k people.
Phew was worried you might be heading to Texas or something. It’s still technically hurricane season after all.
Also sidetracked into needing to look up if Netherlands (where “old”Amsterdam is) has its name origins related to being lower or if it’s a funny way of languages converging on similar sounds for very different concepts. ….
pern
Someone please buy that air fryer 😂😂
If you want a good halloween try derry in northern ireland. It slaps harder than it has any right to
Do many people commute from Rep. of Ireland (Donegal in particular) to (London)Derry? Serious question.
they want their own version of brexit but exit from uk
Gibraltar and Canal Islands would be epic as independent countries
Australian food? I wonder what that could be
Koala burgers.
Outback Steakhouse! 🙃
I still don't understand why Germany even wants bridges to France
London and Paris the biggest cities on the Continent?! I think Moscow and Istanbul might wish to take issue with that! _Western_ Europe, Yes, I'll grant you!
So landlock connection from UK to France
Jersey isn't in the UK.
@@Yamezzzz Jersey island or jersey usa ?
@@makiskanyt9269 Jersey, the Bailiwick of Jersey. We don't have UK passports, we have Jersey passports.
@@Yamezzzz yeah but it's a microstate under the UK right ? Same as northern Ireland or Scotland even Wales ?
@@makiskanyt9269 No. It's an overseas territory like the Falklands, St Helena or Gibraltar. Self-governing.
Jersey is an autonomous dependency of the United Kingdom, no need to overcomplicate it, it’s part of the UK.
Having rode through normandy just this summer and being able to say how far away jersey is from the mainland, thinking of the effort this endeavor would take is making me sick
Toycat you gotta hit Montréal when you’re in Canada. It’s a great day trip from Ottawa. I will show you around.