I love it....100 billion dollars for HS2 (200km) in "easy" environments.. 29 billion dollars for 550 km, deep in the highest mountains in the world. Grand Paris Exp 45 billion dollars for 200 km of tunnels. The difference is the lobbying including that of ecologists.
In my hometown Nagoya, Japan, the LINEAR (maglev) SHINKANSEN station has been under construction. You can watch youtube videos by those who experienced this railway (they have 42km long trial route) wz 500km/h speed😉.
The Grand Paris Express (GPE) it is 200 km LINE km (400 km TRACK km), 72 stations. Up to 20 tunnel boring machines (Tunneliers) are working simultaneously to dig the total 200 km of underground tunnels. The GPE trains (183 ordered to-date) run at 110 km/h and are driverless. IMO the GPE is WAY bigger than Crossrail now revised to 36 billion Euros while Crossrail is estimated 20 billion Pounds
9:38 the official name of the project is the Sha Tin to Central Link which consist of 2 phases. The first phase is rail line between Hung Hom and Tai Wai and the merch of the West Rail Line and Ma On Shan line , and the one in this video is the second phase of the project
The fact that everyone only cares about the costs associated with these plans and not the plans themselves is exactly why Americans have no high speed rail. If you wait for profitable rail, it will never come.
Glad to see Paris in this video :) Here's some more info : actually, 100% of this project is outside Paris itself. They want to connect suburbs together because there's currently no heavy rail fast public transit option to connect them without commuting to the center. It's basically doubling the length of our current network and is considered the project of the century for public transit.
Considering that NYC wants to build ONE light rail line for 6 billion, 10 billion for dozens of km of new track and a whole new main station is kind of reasonable...
Why was the Ontario Line in Toronto left off your list? Based on the video's title it should have been on it, with a cost of around 17 to 19 billion dollars.... Strange.
They don't consider Canada at all, on their list of tallest freestanding towers the CN tower was left off too. Which is strange since it's a lot taller than some of the towers they listed
There are far more expensive projects in the world than the ones mentioned but in countries that get no attention, at least not when it's infrastructure. In any case, you cannot expect logic when a video talks about "Most Expensive Railway Projects" in general with no regards to the cost per km and the duration of the projects., which is what's important.Comparing a project like HSR in Spain that has 4000km built over a period of 30 years with a very low cost of 70B$ with something like HS2 or CAHSR that eachcosts more than the entire Spanish network for a much shorter rout and, in fact HS2 vs CAHSR, with a similar projected cost, when the CAHSR is far longer is absurd. The same goes for the Grand Paris Express, that includes 200km and dozens of stations to a short NYC subway line with 3 stations. As for the Ontario Line, since the costs on the video are in USD it is "only" 12.5B-14B, but the cost per km (of almost 900M) is definitely at the top.
Really unfortunate that that budget is being reported everywhere, the actual expected capital expenditure for the line is ~$10-11 billion, with the awarded contracts also including 30 years of operations and maintenance to get up to the 19 billion that you mention in your comment. I just looked now and basically no news articles mention this, and says stuff like "cost increased by 70%" when that isn't the case at all.
6:23 this project was brought up before China had the audacity of planing the «New Silk Road” , by the Russian’s… 7:23 Do you really think Boris Johnson announced that project the same year construction began? Wasn’t it closer to 2009 ? 16:44 The “Amur”-Line you’re map is showing is the current Transsiberian, open since 1930, the Baykal-Amur Line is further north…btw; high speed is doubling the ancient line, step by step from Moscow. Sorry , no👍
You missed Seattle's light rail system, which will not be operational for another 15 years (at minimum). It is currently projected to cost 142 billion dollars, but that does not take into account further cost over runs. This for a system that is projected to carry less than 2% of Seattle's commuter traffic. At over 500 million for each mile of track, it is not a very popular idea. Fort me, it will be nice to ride a train from my home in Everett, WA all the way to the major airport of Sea-Tac (42 miles) without changing trains and will do so in about 65 minutes. If you travel in off peak times in a car, it takes less time than the train. HOWEVER, with traffic so bad in Seattle, during peak morning and evening times, that would be pretty good. Still incredibly expensive and only the ultra high speed trains in Japan and the bullet trains in the rest of Asian cost more.
@@simplyrohith2163 "kuch bhi "you can't randomly come up with any number and that toooo this big , seriously 240 billion usd is more then the gdp of pakistan The mumbai ahemdabad bullet train project is around 15 billion usd
I just wish that they would drop all of the nonsense and just get on with building the high speed Irish Sea rail tunnel from Holyhead to Dublin as a real alternative to flying and air travel, if the U.K. and the EU were really serious about this, as the plan has been shelved so many times, where shipping and ferries rapidly fill to capacity at both Liverpool Birkenhead, Holyhead and Dublin alike, where Dublin Port has been expanded to take cruise ships, where ferries don’t even go all the way into Dublin when the River Liffey is at high tide - all of the existing rail lines around Dublin Port is only for freight, not passenger trains and despite the M50 Port Tunnel for cars and trucks, there is still no rail or even LUAS tram connection from the Irish Ferries/Stena Terminals into Dublin City Centre - the nearest train station is Dublin Docklands but even it has no rail connection to Irish Ferries passenger terminal and the LUAS trams only go as far as the Gibson Hotel/02 Arena - the historical ferry connection from Liverpool to Dublin was shelved some years ago and the only one that exists now is a car-only ferry from Birkenhead to Dublin, which the operator P&O ferries is in controversy and may suspend this very soon
2022 world cup is long gone.. I understand content gets made ahead of schedule in a lot of cases.. but this feels like recycling old videos that didn’t do well in the past and not even bothering to update it or record new commentary for it
I don’t know what the hell your research method is but HS2 is officially the most expensive train project in the world. It is costing about 120 billion USD and is increasing, your list? Ranking? Is completely wrong.
The Highspeed 2 is the most nonsensical bs i've ever heard, due to their psychotically green-centric mindset, their cost ballooned to an extreme degree. With that amount of excessive cost, it can build Thailand's all 4 planned HSR lines not once, but twice. Be green all you want, but be realistic about it. I doubt that project will be finished, especially with how far the UK economy has fallen.
No mainland Chinese railways, politically correct. I guess if you include those real engineering masterpieces in Chinese Mainland, There's no space for talking about Paris London or New York railways, which definitely not politically correct.
I love it....100 billion dollars for HS2 (200km) in "easy" environments.. 29 billion dollars for 550 km, deep in the highest mountains in the world. Grand Paris Exp 45 billion dollars for 200 km of tunnels.
The difference is the lobbying including that of ecologists.
Spain: 70 Billion for 4000km (and growing) of HSR in the second most mountainous country in the EU (after Austria).
@@alfrredd and Switzerland
@@zhiro_3 Switzerland is not part of the EU.
@alfrredd I didn't read the EU part I assumed it was all Europe my bad.
You are showing Oxford Circus in London whilst talking about a European railway network.
In my hometown Nagoya, Japan, the LINEAR (maglev) SHINKANSEN station has been under construction. You can watch youtube videos by those who experienced this railway (they have 42km long trial route) wz 500km/h speed😉.
The Grand Paris Express (GPE) it is 200 km LINE km (400 km TRACK km), 72 stations. Up to 20 tunnel boring machines (Tunneliers) are working simultaneously to dig the total 200 km of underground tunnels. The GPE trains (183 ordered to-date) run at 110 km/h and are driverless. IMO the GPE is WAY bigger than Crossrail now revised to 36 billion Euros while Crossrail is estimated 20 billion Pounds
9:38 the official name of the project is the Sha Tin to Central Link which consist of 2 phases. The first phase is rail line between Hung Hom and Tai Wai and the merch of the West Rail Line and Ma On Shan line , and the one in this video is the second phase of the project
The fact that everyone only cares about the costs associated with these plans and not the plans themselves is exactly why Americans have no high speed rail. If you wait for profitable rail, it will never come.
Glad to see Paris in this video :)
Here's some more info : actually, 100% of this project is outside Paris itself. They want to connect suburbs together because there's currently no heavy rail fast public transit option to connect them without commuting to the center. It's basically doubling the length of our current network and is considered the project of the century for public transit.
I wonder, for cost, what did the trans-Atlantic railway initially cost when it was built in the US when adjusted for inflation.
Great video but you forget Germany with Stuttgart 21 that will cost more then 10 Billions ....
Considering that NYC wants to build ONE light rail line for 6 billion, 10 billion for dozens of km of new track and a whole new main station is kind of reasonable...
I guess, its Part of the tent Core network, as the Line between Stuttgart and Ulm is Part of the rhine danube Line in it
Why was the Ontario Line in Toronto left off your list? Based on the video's title it should have been on it, with a cost of around 17 to 19 billion dollars.... Strange.
They don't consider Canada at all, on their list of tallest freestanding towers the CN tower was left off too.
Which is strange since it's a lot taller than some of the towers they listed
Funny for a channel from Vancouver. Lol
They have missed 30 billion dollar dedicated freight corridor of India
There are far more expensive projects in the world than the ones mentioned but in countries that get no attention, at least not when it's infrastructure.
In any case, you cannot expect logic when a video talks about "Most Expensive Railway Projects" in general with no regards to the cost per km and the duration of the projects., which is what's important.Comparing a project like HSR in Spain that has 4000km built over a period of 30 years with a very low cost of 70B$ with something like HS2 or CAHSR that eachcosts more than the entire Spanish network for a much shorter rout and, in fact HS2 vs CAHSR, with a similar projected cost, when the CAHSR is far longer is absurd.
The same goes for the Grand Paris Express, that includes 200km and dozens of stations to a short NYC subway line with 3 stations.
As for the Ontario Line, since the costs on the video are in USD it is "only" 12.5B-14B, but the cost per km (of almost 900M) is definitely at the top.
Really unfortunate that that budget is being reported everywhere, the actual expected capital expenditure for the line is ~$10-11 billion, with the awarded contracts also including 30 years of operations and maintenance to get up to the 19 billion that you mention in your comment. I just looked now and basically no news articles mention this, and says stuff like "cost increased by 70%" when that isn't the case at all.
These types of High speed trains systems will never be seen in US for generations!
6:23 this project was brought up before China had the audacity of planing the «New Silk Road” , by the Russian’s…
7:23 Do you really think Boris Johnson announced that project the same year construction began? Wasn’t it closer to 2009 ?
16:44 The “Amur”-Line you’re map is showing is the current Transsiberian, open since 1930, the Baykal-Amur Line is further north…btw; high speed is doubling the ancient line, step by step from Moscow.
Sorry , no👍
Why is the thumbnail for "the most expensive railway projects" the 150yo main station of Frankfurt? I dont really see the connection 😂
This dude has never been on the NYC subway system.
Plus additional one : KL - Singapore hsr at a cost of $26B
I've used light rain to get all over California
does the thumbnail shows the frankfurt main station in germany??
Yes. Also, at 13:09 you can see the skyline of Frankfurt even though the topic is India at this moment :D
Justice for East Palestine
Why East only just asking
@@kkdm2010 East Palestine, Ohio
th-cam.com/video/iJUDWBZ2Dp8/w-d-xo.html
Justice for Israel
I noticed the anti union dig about new york but it still isn't the most expensive and yet still more profitable than most Chinese rail systems
Railways isn't meant to be profitable, it is meant to make lives of avarage citizens better and simpler.
@@yuning8045 if only the us people would try and understand this they wouldn’t be so far back on railway development.
13:09 the topic is India but the video is showing Frankfurt (Germany) lol
Stuttgart 21 is missing!
You missed Seattle's light rail system, which will not be operational for another 15 years (at minimum). It is currently projected to cost 142 billion dollars, but that does not take into account further cost over runs. This for a system that is projected to carry less than 2% of Seattle's commuter traffic. At over 500 million for each mile of track, it is not a very popular idea. Fort me, it will be nice to ride a train from my home in Everett, WA all the way to the major airport of Sea-Tac (42 miles) without changing trains and will do so in about 65 minutes. If you travel in off peak times in a car, it takes less time than the train. HOWEVER, with traffic so bad in Seattle, during peak morning and evening times, that would be pretty good. Still incredibly expensive and only the ultra high speed trains in Japan and the bullet trains in the rest of Asian cost more.
You forgot Riyadh metro project in Saudi Arabia
*_Jakarta Bandung High Speed Railways?!!_*
🤔🤔🤔
8 billion, jadi masih dibawah yg video ini
High speed 2 will never come true.
DFC s of India should be included
While Bullet train is more expensive than DFCs
@@simplyrohith2163 dfc's cost upward of 30 billion usd
@@scharnhorstkaisarbeethoven meanwhile bullet train costs around 24billion.
@@simplyrohith2163 "kuch bhi "you can't randomly come up with any number and that toooo this big , seriously 240 billion usd is more then the gdp of pakistan
The mumbai ahemdabad bullet train project is around 15 billion usd
@@scharnhorstkaisarbeethoven bro just convert 2.2lack crores
And Malaysia ecrl at $14B
Grand Paris Express is a metro network, not a train 🙄
but it is railway
TIMESTAMPS!!!
United Kingdom Of Great Britain 🇬🇧 London is the best city in the world everybody to invest in the UK Railway infrastructure boost business forever.
I just wish that they would drop all of the nonsense and just get on with building the high speed Irish Sea rail tunnel from Holyhead to Dublin as a real alternative to flying and air travel, if the U.K. and the EU were really serious about this, as the plan has been shelved so many times, where shipping and ferries rapidly fill to capacity at both Liverpool Birkenhead, Holyhead and Dublin alike, where Dublin Port has been expanded to take cruise ships, where ferries don’t even go all the way into Dublin when the River Liffey is at high tide - all of the existing rail lines around Dublin Port is only for freight, not passenger trains and despite the M50 Port Tunnel for cars and trucks, there is still no rail or even LUAS tram connection from the Irish Ferries/Stena Terminals into Dublin City Centre - the nearest train station is Dublin Docklands but even it has no rail connection to Irish Ferries passenger terminal and the LUAS trams only go as far as the Gibson Hotel/02 Arena - the historical ferry connection from Liverpool to Dublin was shelved some years ago and the only one that exists now is a car-only ferry from Birkenhead to Dublin, which the operator P&O ferries is in controversy and may suspend this very soon
2022 world cup is long gone.. I understand content gets made ahead of schedule in a lot of cases.. but this feels like recycling old videos that didn’t do well in the past and not even bothering to update it or record new commentary for it
I don’t know what the hell your research method is but HS2 is officially the most expensive train project in the world. It is costing about 120 billion USD and is increasing, your list? Ranking? Is completely wrong.
Boris johnson didn't announce hs2 it was the brown government and crewe is not a city its a town
Notting real mostly just a plan lol....
The Highspeed 2 is the most nonsensical bs i've ever heard, due to their psychotically green-centric mindset, their cost ballooned to an extreme degree. With that amount of excessive cost, it can build Thailand's all 4 planned HSR lines not once, but twice. Be green all you want, but be realistic about it. I doubt that project will be finished, especially with how far the UK economy has fallen.
什么玩意，一派胡言。
Stop saying “large amounts of people”. It’s “large numbers of people”. It makes you sound uneducated.
" It makes you sound uneducated."
and this makes you sound like a "elitists snob"
Earlyyyyy
No mainland Chinese railways, politically correct. I guess if you include those real engineering masterpieces in Chinese Mainland, There's no space for talking about Paris London or New York railways, which definitely not politically correct.
First
First