Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever

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  • @kevinferrell8237
    @kevinferrell8237 หลายเดือนก่อน +1305

    7:44 when you said “…dinner?” my corgi woke up from his nap because he thought it was time for his dinner. You’ll be hearing from my lawyers.

    • @emmaisalone
      @emmaisalone หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      That's just more content for HAI

    • @andrewmorley5059
      @andrewmorley5059 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      That’s why I ask my dogs if they want to eat in Spanish 😂

    • @wschmrdr
      @wschmrdr หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@andrewmorley5059 Different language need: When you try to teach one dog to come and the other one does.

    • @paveladamek3502
      @paveladamek3502 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I am with Gedd, Ouveur & Ydd. Please contact us for the settlement of 1.3 bln. That is as high as we can go.

    • @saladmcjones7798
      @saladmcjones7798 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@andrewmorley5059now I’m imagining a dog being trained for dinner on the call “donde esta la biblioteca?”

  • @bedlife1
    @bedlife1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1640

    You can tell they had fun making this. Drill and Blast method is hilarious

    • @bosstowndynamics5488
      @bosstowndynamics5488 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      I was almost convinced this was a thing and looked it up to find out without specifying "music", and it turns out that a lot of the drilling companies that specialise in drill and blast have very metal sounding names lol

    • @robmurphy806
      @robmurphy806 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      ​@@bosstowndynamics5488 I do a lot of diamond drilling in quarries and mines, I see drilling and blasting (completely different drilling process to what I do) almost every day. Pretty much it comes down to drilling a bunch of holes with usually a hammer drill of some type, and packing them full of explosives (the blast part). Yeah, a lot of them have names that could also be band names..and some guys have too much fun with the blasting part.

  • @pennyjim5671
    @pennyjim5671 หลายเดือนก่อน +1192

    5:45 is hands down the best moment in this video

    • @cursed_cats5710
      @cursed_cats5710 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Honorable mention 5:10

    • @jdalbion
      @jdalbion หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      If you're 12 years old, yea.

    • @ollysza2833
      @ollysza2833 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Ah yes DnB: Drill n Blast

    • @soundmedia222
      @soundmedia222 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      dumb

    • @nathaniel.higgerson
      @nathaniel.higgerson หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      ​@@jdalbion"🤓🤓🤓"

  • @ravenfieldguy3323
    @ravenfieldguy3323 หลายเดือนก่อน +1408

    HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH DRILL & BLAST

  • @bababababababa6124
    @bababababababa6124 หลายเดือนก่อน +2152

    RLL already taught me that everything in Hawaii is like 10 times the price it should be

    • @nealrigga6969
      @nealrigga6969 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      When the two top comments on your new video are from the same guy talking about your rival channel 💀 big L for HAI

    • @jackblack704
      @jackblack704 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      @@nealrigga6969 only dweebs like you care

    • @nealrigga6969
      @nealrigga6969 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@jackblack704but yo mama cares too

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      @@nealrigga6969wait a min bro what on earth is your name 😭

    • @noob.168
      @noob.168 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Half the efficiency

  • @safebox36
    @safebox36 หลายเดือนก่อน +628

    Shout out to the editor who filmed that drill and blast skit, that's commitment 😂

    • @cwg73160
      @cwg73160 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      oh ok cool

    • @lillyclarity9699
      @lillyclarity9699 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cwg73160 oh ok cool

    • @archerelms
      @archerelms หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I know he's a writer and may not edit but that seems like an Adam thing to do

  • @Makkle4000
    @Makkle4000 หลายเดือนก่อน +816

    Drill and Blast Method goes HARD

    • @fuji.21
      @fuji.21 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      bro needs to drop the full album ASAP

    • @superiormva1228
      @superiormva1228 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      track id?

    • @johnthomas2970
      @johnthomas2970 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yo Sam drop that shit!!

  • @DanG802
    @DanG802 หลายเดือนก่อน +307

    I drove on H3 shortly after it opened. It had rained recently and there were so many waterfalls!! What an absolutely beautiful drive.

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      If I ever somehow make my way back to that state, I’m definitely seeing this for myself.
      (Car rental prices are probably expensive there compared to here but I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.)

    • @MesoMan11
      @MesoMan11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@DiamondKingStudios You'll cross that bridge when you get there... H3 has two long viaducts... so you literally will cross that bridge when you get there! 😉

    • @colemanmoore9871
      @colemanmoore9871 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I drove on this a couple times when I was there for vacation about 10 years ago. Beautiful drive. The tunnel was a little disconcerting the first time I went through it. With the elevation change and some curves, you can't see the other side. It was my first time driving through a tunnel like that.

    • @KeiraSamson
      @KeiraSamson หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      FR

    • @snoopdogie187
      @snoopdogie187 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@colemanmoore9871 In my experience, you cant see the other side of most tunnels.

  • @coreymartin9630
    @coreymartin9630 หลายเดือนก่อน +454

    Can we please get a full song of the Drill & Blast Method? It's an absolute heater 🔥

    • @Chetikians
      @Chetikians หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      It would go incredibly hard at a festival, I bet you CrankDat would take it with the visual from the video and it would go WILD

    • @coreymartin9630
      @coreymartin9630 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Chetikians True lol, kinda wish he did more D&B

    • @brandonearle5916
      @brandonearle5916 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Idk if your a nebula subscriber or not, but there is an extended sequence of it at the end on nebula that gives a taste of what we really good have

    • @choo_choo_
      @choo_choo_ หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      its shit

    • @wschmrdr
      @wschmrdr หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@choo_choo_ It's Dubstep; what did you expect?

  • @geraldsoria1764
    @geraldsoria1764 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    Oh boy I can’t wait for the “Why Hawaii’s Rail System so Expensvive” in 10 years

    • @seasaltlover
      @seasaltlover หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Oh maybe the section to the airport will be open by then 😒

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      “Why Hawaii is so Expensive”

    • @daniel_gallardo808
      @daniel_gallardo808 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Don't need 10 years. The rail (skyline) is already well known for being incredibly expensive. Seen the development of it since it was first proposed and it is only part way finished.

    • @leandersearle5094
      @leandersearle5094 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@DiamondKingStudios Lawsuits. Environmental lawsuits, specifically.

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@leandersearle5094 probably not the only kind of lawsuit developers there have to deal with

  • @williamfarley3794
    @williamfarley3794 หลายเดือนก่อน +139

    5:45 we drilling and blasting out the tunnel with this one boys🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @andrewchapman2039
    @andrewchapman2039 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    Drill and Blast is the new bricks video isn't it? Can't wait for the inevitable release.

  • @RLTango
    @RLTango หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    5:42 - _Get some _*_"DRILL & BLAST"_*_ here!!!_

  • @intrepid1160
    @intrepid1160 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    What a coincidence, there’s this guy called Wendover Productions who also just did a video on Hawaii, maybe you guys can do a collab or something.

  • @bababababababa6124
    @bababababababa6124 หลายเดือนก่อน +326

    I am convinced that RLL and Sam from HAI live in the same house and release videos together 😂

    • @Austin101123
      @Austin101123 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      Add in wendover productions

    • @tombo416
      @tombo416 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

      @@Austin101123no that’s a different guy

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      @@Austin101123isn’t that a completely different person with no relation to HAI whatsoever?

    • @60sebastian
      @60sebastian หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@bababababababa6124is there a running joke about them being different people

    • @gaudenciomanaloto6443
      @gaudenciomanaloto6443 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@60sebastian no they're different people also the wendover guy doesn't run

  • @eliaswilson7911
    @eliaswilson7911 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Sam: H3 is the most expensive and controversial highway project in US history is
    Big Dig: Hold my beer

    • @tutacat
      @tutacat 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hold my drill*

    • @rethinkOURreality
      @rethinkOURreality 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      The podcast about that is pretty good!

  • @sabersz
    @sabersz หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    We absolutely need a full Drill & Blast track, just went back to watch the Faroe video from a couple months ago
    I beg you Sam, we need this!!!

    • @MrTurbo_
      @MrTurbo_ หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      For real, that was fire

    • @KatieCat22
      @KatieCat22 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The nebula version has some Drill & Blast at the end where the sponsor segment would be.

  • @seasaltlover
    @seasaltlover หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I really want to know what Sam thinks about the rail. Has been in the works for over 10 years and opened only recently. But the sections that are open are between places that no one really goes to. It's between the aloha stadium (which closed for renovation) and eastern kapolei. Not even to the area of kapolei with activity! The rail right now does not reach the airport nor anywhere in town. For me, I would need to take 2 buses just to get to the rail and then wherever it drops me off I'll still need to take another bus to get to where I'm going. Might as well take the one bus I've been taking. It's a disaster and i think it would be an interesting topic for this channel or wendover

  • @toomanyopinions8353
    @toomanyopinions8353 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    People in the comments somehow not understanding that “interstate” is just a name for federally funded highways and they do not have to be actually between states. There are lots of interstates in the continental US that stay within one state too.

    • @benoithudson7235
      @benoithudson7235 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The majority of the 1- or 2-digit interstates are at least planned to be in multiple states. Granted, part of that is made true by assigning the same number to two highways that aren't connected at all.

    • @michaeltaylor1991
      @michaeltaylor1991 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      comments is full of drill and blast what u complaining about

    • @toomanyopinions8353
      @toomanyopinions8353 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@benoithudson7235 definitely not all of them are! There are quite a few that aren’t. There’s a list of them out there somewhere that I saw at one point.

    • @CandleWisp
      @CandleWisp หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      interstate™

    • @MrNacknime
      @MrNacknime หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well many of those people may not actually be Americans and thus maybe not too knowledgeable about the details of your country

  • @Balsiefen
    @Balsiefen หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Not surprised. Very ambitious to make give Hawaii an interstate. That bridge must be at least 2000 miles.

  • @xixoxixa
    @xixoxixa หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Coming out of the tunnels going leeward is one of the most beautiful sights on a road you can have.

  • @kairo__
    @kairo__ หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    0:47 the description of the teal section has a typo. this better be on the next rendition of HAI mistakes

  • @User31129
    @User31129 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Happy to see this. I wrote a college paper around 16 years ago about Freeway Revolts and Environmentally friendly freeway constructions to get around Freeway Revolts. H-3 obviously made it into the paper. Along with things like the 710 Gap in Pasadena CA and I-70 west of Denver. I got a degree in urban and regional planning.

  • @fuji.21
    @fuji.21 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    i need the full album of the drill&blast song, it goes criminally hard

  • @jerrykco
    @jerrykco หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    No one thinks H3 is ugly compared to Pali and Likelike Hwy. it’s a beautiful drive with stunning views.

  • @dirkalpha3895
    @dirkalpha3895 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    nice, i hope the blast department of HaI never runs out of budget

  • @bagelgeuse5736
    @bagelgeuse5736 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I really hope Drill and Blast becomes a recurring joke.

  • @BlueSunHiredGun
    @BlueSunHiredGun หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    H-3's kind of a weird one. Despite growing up on Oahu, I've been over it maybe four times in my life? To and from Urban Honolulu, the Pali and Likelike highways are generally more convenient. H-3 is a "nice" drive, I suppose, but that's about it. The price tag, the environmental/cultural damage, and the worker deaths make it hard to say it was all worth it.

    • @MrConverse
      @MrConverse หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I moved here in 2002 after it was done. I live on the West side and it really helps me to get to the Windward side without having to go thru town. I hike a lot so I’m all over the island. But if you live in the urban core then it’s not gonna help you much.

    • @BlueSunHiredGun
      @BlueSunHiredGun หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@MrConverse Yeah, that makes sense. Looking at a map, it's easy to say, oh, Likelike is just a few valleys farther to go, but, of course, you're often fighting the worst traffic on H-1 to get to it from the West Side.

    • @DoubleMrE
      @DoubleMrE หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’ve used H-3 many, many times. Especially going to the airport. With it, it’s possible to get from Kailua to the airport only having to go through a single traffic light in Kailua. It only takes 20 mins. from my house to the airport. Before H-3, you had to go through 8 traffic lights and had to go from the Pali Hwy. and change to H-1 (and through a lot of much heavier traffic). It took almost twice as long. It’s also very good for getting to the Pearl Harbor area (including Pearlridge Mall) and west Oahu. It also has one of the most beautiful views you’ll ever see when you exit the tunnel, windward bound (that view actually won an award).

    • @FDboto
      @FDboto หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      in like the 80s and 90s the pali and likelike was the worst to drive through its basically the same as driving h1 west at like 5pm

  • @Archamfer
    @Archamfer หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "Oh you like D&B? I like Drum and Bass too!"
    "No no no. Hold my brick..."

  • @StaticImage
    @StaticImage หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I can't get over how perfect the drill and blast bit was. The first drill and blast moment in the last video had me laughing so hard I had to pause the video. Then this. The follow up to a classic is almost impossible, but you guys knocked it out of the park. To the editor who did that- kudos.

  • @Seersant
    @Seersant หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I cant believe you didn’t send Amy to walk the interstate

  • @jon6309
    @jon6309 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thank you. I live and work in Honolulu. A lot of my managers and co-workers live in Kaneohe and drive to work when we are in office. I am grateful to live in my neighborhood my grandparents chose wisely and benefited my generation!

  • @taj0213
    @taj0213 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Since talking about H3, you should talk about the attacks on H3, it checks off everything, Logistics, geopolitics and military

  • @ChrisStargazer
    @ChrisStargazer หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Calling Inouye an “H3 fanboy,” while not inaccurate, got me. 😂 Reminds me of when he was also called a “one-armed bandit.”

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He lost his arm to a grenade in WWII, so I’d maybe refrain from using those words in the same sentence to describe him, even if he had his critics.

    • @ChrisStargazer
      @ChrisStargazer หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ Then feel free to refrain from using the phrase to describe him. I, on the other hand, kū me Mililani Trask a me nā kānaka maoli.

    • @KeiraSamson
      @KeiraSamson หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      H3 FANBOY IM DYING

  • @ikemeitz5287
    @ikemeitz5287 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    MORE DRILL AND BLAST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU

  • @rosswebster7877
    @rosswebster7877 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Another fantastic entry into HAI's series of vids focusing on Hawaiian logistics and infrastructure! Also, kudos for being the first TH-camr to use the Spice Girls as a unit of measurement!

  • @MM-sn6ix
    @MM-sn6ix หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    0:22 80.000.000 $ per mile?
    Berlin: hold my beer! The Autobahn A100 costs 393.600.000 € per mile. So it's more than 5 times as expensive. 🤯

    • @BlackbeardedPirate
      @BlackbeardedPirate หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Even in the Netherlands, which is almost flatter than flat, you’re looking at anything from 32 to 320mln € per mile. And that’s pricing from 8 years ago, we all know what corona and inflation did over the last few years. 🤯

    • @brabecjakub
      @brabecjakub หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      What the hell?!

    • @danycashking
      @danycashking หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@BlackbeardedPirate that's still ridiculous though, this HAS to be money laundering by contractors, how is sending stuff into space cheaper than building a highway? like fine it's not the simplest thing in the world but it is far from an engineering nightmare.

    • @cbernier3
      @cbernier3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stop blaming corona for everything. Blame Biden. Biden is responsible for everything including the extinction of the dinosaurs.

    • @BlackbeardedPirate
      @BlackbeardedPirate หลายเดือนก่อน

      Space has a better cost per mile ratio I guess?
      As for the highway and can think of property buyouts, aquaducts, viaducts, ecoducts, railway crossings, environmental studies, lawsuits etc. It’s a very crowded country.
      This one highway, it took more than 2 years to lay the foundation over a stretch of 30 miles or so. Those were loads of sand hauled by those big mining trucks, I can only guess what the gas bill for something like that was.

  • @RustyorBroken
    @RustyorBroken หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    5:38 "Every industry has their version of the first pancake."
    That's some big brain comedy right there. 👍

  • @raphaeldagamer
    @raphaeldagamer หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    I think the biggest question is why it's called an Interstate even though it exists entirely within one state.

    • @UltraNoobian
      @UltraNoobian หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Intrastate

    • @matthewdebeer8453
      @matthewdebeer8453 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Wait until you hear about the Extra-Inter-Unincorporated-Territory…

    • @WanJae42
      @WanJae42 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To make it legal, it did have to connect to a special sekret phantom state that lies hidden along the path. You get to it, you have to find a cave with a phony barricade in front of it.

    • @seasaltlover
      @seasaltlover หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Had to follow interstate regulations to get interstate funding

    • @matthewdebeer8453
      @matthewdebeer8453 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It’s not so unusual, really. There are way more interstate minors (three digits) that have their full length in a single state than actual inter-state interstates. And there’s even an interstate major (I-45) which is a fully intra-state interstate.

  • @StarryTheSuperstar
    @StarryTheSuperstar หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Petition to make HAI release a Drill and Blast Album on Spotify

  • @drakelamb3973
    @drakelamb3973 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    First time on this channel and I subscribed, this is quality youtube content. It's informative, tells a STORY, and adds character through the writing and cutaways. This is awesome!!!

  • @TheEverFreeKing
    @TheEverFreeKing หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have always enjoyed that highway all my life. It's been very useful and i'm grateful for it.

  • @daveb5206
    @daveb5206 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sounds similar in cost and controversy to the plan to put the A303 in a tunnel past Stonehenge in the UK. Only ours never got built. And doesn't even have and Drill & Blast.

  • @DOPES4MAGA
    @DOPES4MAGA หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Should've sent outside correspondent Amy to drive it to get some non-stock footage

  • @felman87
    @felman87 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Having lived on the North Shore, H3 was nice to have. Traveled through it a lot and I knew people who used it every day to get to work on the other side of the island.

  • @retirednavychief6983
    @retirednavychief6983 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One addition. Up until 1997 the Navy and Coast Guard operated an OMEGA navigation station at Haiku, HI. This extremely powerful transmitting station was so close to H3 that it would energize the steel inside the tunnels and along the viaducts. Prior to opening the entire roadway of the leeward viaducts was removed and replaced with a built-in "Faraday Cage" to minimize danger to the public on H3. This was of course a HUGE cost overrun. The really corrupt part of this was that the OMEGA station was shut down BEFORE H3 ever opened. It just made a contractor or two a ton of free cash.

    • @williamlloyd3769
      @williamlloyd3769 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Managed an OMEGA site in Japan in the 1980s, it was mature technology but on its way out. Interesting story but yes stations needed a big buffer around them to keep from impacting local populace.
      OMEGA is a very low frequency (VLF) radio navigational. system operating in the internationally allocated navigation. band in the electromagnetic spectrum between 10 and 14. kilohertz

  • @andersjjensen
    @andersjjensen หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    How do I file formal grievance that HAI keeps teasing the Drill and Blast mixtape, but never delivers?

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    H3 is an absolutely beautiful road with part of it like driving through a rain forest. Nice to know the backstory but I wish I’d found the road paved with gold the times I was on it! I’ll pay more attention and be more appreciative next time. Aloha.

  • @MissMyMusicAddiction
    @MissMyMusicAddiction หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    2:02 clearly the protesters climbed to the top of mauna loa to protest, because that's the only place in hawaii where coats and hats are even a thing. or, they're high AF on pineapple juice

  • @ToddStafford
    @ToddStafford หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you like tunnels, you should do a video on the Anton Anderson tunnel that connect the rest of Alaska to the town of Whittier.

  • @yayinternets
    @yayinternets หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    That cost is insane. I live in Colorado where I-70 basically cuts through the mountains in various places, and has a lot of crazy complexity. It's an absolute engineering marvel and the hardest driving in the US as far as interstates go.
    I'm not sure of the exact length, but I'd guess somewhere around 250 miles from Denver to Utah. Even in inflation dollars it was still less than 1 billion to build.

    • @ithilpalladium
      @ithilpalladium หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If I recall correctly, it's because it was built as part of public works programs. If it were actually built today it would cost some absolutely insane figure that it probably wouldn't get built at all.

    • @benjaminchung991
      @benjaminchung991 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Between the Eisenhower Tunnel and the Glenwood canyon section it's somewhere north of $1.5 billion in inflation adjusted terms.

    • @ithilpalladium
      @ithilpalladium หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@benjaminchung991 ok I guess I was completely wrong or misremembering something I read a while back that suggested the tunnel alone would cost like $70 billion today. I looked it up and yeah, $1.5 billion is actually a surprisingly reasonable number given how insanely expensive public infrastructure projects normally end up being in the US, like the big dig tunnel project. If I recall correctly, the huge number I was thinking of was in the context of the possibility of adding a train line parallel to the highway through the continental divide and the cost of adding a new tunnel being so astronomical that it wasn't in the realm of possibility. The two lanes on each side is still a huge bottleneck during ski season but I doubt they'll ever widen it.

    • @seebeedee
      @seebeedee หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Both drives are my favorites on the planet.

    • @SnowmanTF2
      @SnowmanTF2 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A lot of cost plausibly also got impacted by delay in getting build, since almost all the original interstate's designs have aspects below todays standards. Standards change over time necessitated multiple things that cost more; starting with more land, more red tape in design and approval, then more redundancy in bridge design, often wider breakdown lanes on at least one side and often full breakdown lanes on both sides, higher level of protection in median of metros, ramps have gotten much longer, interchanges more complex, and often much more work done in safe zone off side of road. So a road with 2 lanes in each direction goes from effectively 4 lanes to 6, 3 lanes in each direction is now 10 lanes wide, then either large areas of clear space or barrier walls.
      This improves safety and newer roads starting with more clear zone makes later expansion more plausible, but is also part of why comparing construction costs between different decades is impacted by a lot more than just inflation.
      Doing so much of that as viaducts likely also caused costs to go much higher, and will require a lot more mantence over time too.

  • @AaronGeo
    @AaronGeo หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I mean, O'ahu must be extremely mountainous.

    • @newprophet2011
      @newprophet2011 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's a volcano, so ... yeah.

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ⁠@@newprophet2011*was* a volcano. The island was formed over a volcanic hotspot, but drifted over millions of years and any volcanoes that once were are now extinct. The hotspot is now where the big island is; the volcanos there are still active.

    • @boxsterman77
      @boxsterman77 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DiamondKingStudios and it is inactive volcano. Just because it will never irrupt again doesn’t mean it isn’t a volcano.

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@boxsterman77 Considering that many mountains form from volcanism, especially at subduction zones and mid-ocean ridges or rift valleys, that would technically make those mountains all volcanoes by your definition.

  • @MagicHasArrived
    @MagicHasArrived หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The music bit was great work. Got a good laugh and looked great! 10/10 right up this channel's alley

  • @adalaza
    @adalaza หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Drill and Blast Method is the new brick video, you'll have to do it for real eventually.

  • @danboy12342
    @danboy12342 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Drill and blast method returns

  • @TamagoHead
    @TamagoHead หลายเดือนก่อน

    A well-researched article delivered quickly in terms of view time.
    There were a lot of Geological studies, and the terrain is a challenging hike, and it’s a beautiful drive.

  • @youaremopped
    @youaremopped หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks for all the height comparisons. That really put things in perspective. 🤓

  • @izoiva
    @izoiva หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Remote things are expensive to build. At some point you might even import sand for that.

  • @william112342
    @william112342 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I want to see more long form videos with that dope editing!

  • @TrimutiusToo
    @TrimutiusToo หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Where is the link to the drill and blast album???

  • @malcolmjames8175
    @malcolmjames8175 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the stock footage people just chanting "Protesting!" 2:02

  • @SophiaAstatine
    @SophiaAstatine หลายเดือนก่อน

    Blast and drill is like the brick recurrence, but sweet beats making it even better

  • @MrConverse
    @MrConverse หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:41, if you know how to get in, you can walk inside H-3 just below the roadway across all those piers. It’s super cool!!

  • @radanju3
    @radanju3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:50-6:00 ROFL WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST WITNESS!?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @thatoneotherotherguy
    @thatoneotherotherguy 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Highway project blows the budget, car sympathetics chirp “it is what it is”. Sorely needed transit project blows a much smaller budget, people freak out and act like we should never invest in another transit project.

  • @Boop__Doop
    @Boop__Doop หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    finally
    a geography video that isn't "why only 10% of the population lives here"

  • @Petch85
    @Petch85 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The editor and speciel effects artist working on this video seems a little overqualified for the job. 😂
    But I am here for it. If it is worth doing it is worth overdoing. 👍

  • @hipp013
    @hipp013 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The HAI drill album is my favorite running gag of all time

  • @HoennMaster
    @HoennMaster หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:02 Using American style measuring with a British pop group…NICE 😂

    • @GoldClav
      @GoldClav หลายเดือนก่อน

      Underrated 😂

  • @DomGaskell
    @DomGaskell หลายเดือนก่อน

    The return of Drill & Blast made my day! New album when?

  • @TheHylianBatman
    @TheHylianBatman หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did not expect to see a Drill & Blast reference, I thought that joke was one and done.
    All this information about Hawai'i is appreciated!

  • @Haxardagron
    @Haxardagron หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh god the Drill and Blast song (I got to hear more on nebula) is amazing plz full track release somewhere!

  • @dennismatsson9995
    @dennismatsson9995 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think i speak for everyone when i say we need a full release of Drill and Blast!

  • @ponyphonic
    @ponyphonic หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm so happy that Drill & Blast came back.

  • @hatchsyoutube
    @hatchsyoutube 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    4:30 “pave our way” nice

  • @Markcool2011
    @Markcool2011 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sam releasing DnB would be unprecedented for this year

  • @Tilteddog
    @Tilteddog หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When you dropping drill and blast (even if it’s a nebula exclusive) and when jet lagged next season

  • @ryanchun5536
    @ryanchun5536 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its also known as the most beautiful highway in the world. The view while exiting the tunnel and going northbound is indescribable.

  • @ericdewell1905
    @ericdewell1905 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing that I’m learning about this a week after leaving Hawaii for the US mainland.

  • @brabecjakub
    @brabecjakub หลายเดือนก่อน

    Drill and blast is 🔥 i laughed so hard. Great videography!

  • @ArdyIRL
    @ArdyIRL หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone from the islands, I gotta say I'm loving this Hawai'i kick that Sam, and RLL have been on recently.

  • @SkytechCEO
    @SkytechCEO หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's so cool to see the Byodo-In Temple getting used for the temple images :D Love seeing it pop up, I gotta go again soon

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That did make me cringe, I have to say.

  • @poepybrown2151
    @poepybrown2151 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You know what's really expensive: Renting and running full-size generators on site 24/7 to only operate a coffee machine 9 out of 10 times.

  • @achangster
    @achangster หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hawaii's governor at the time of H-3's completion was Ben Cayetano. His first job after college was in the Hawaii State government. His first task on the job was to draft a feasibility study on the construction of H-3. He later steadily rose through the government bureaucracy and all the way into winning the governor election in the 1990s. Yet H-3 completed only when he became governor. From an entry-level employee to the governor. This will give everyone a little perspective on the length.

  • @gromit7573
    @gromit7573 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Need 160ft pillars for that road because jungle is massive. Fr thought can’t wait for half as boiler room

  • @Steven-xf8mz
    @Steven-xf8mz หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Should be adjusted for local cost of living, and/or sort of production cost adjustment. Hawaii is expensive in general, how much something is depends on cost of material and labor. $1 in hawaii is not necessarily more expensive than 90 cents somewhere else.

  • @spiffybumbleteeth
    @spiffybumbleteeth 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    5:44 I'm sorry WHAT, that went SO HARD!? That was SO COOL?!?!

  • @five-toedslothbear4051
    @five-toedslothbear4051 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    3:02 last I checked, that direction was west, “…a valley west…“

  • @Chickenbreadlp
    @Chickenbreadlp หลายเดือนก่อน

    Coming from the Nebula version to thank you for the extended Drill and Blast Mix.
    For anyone who've only see the YT version, there's that benefit to Nebula ;D

  • @adamdapatsfan
    @adamdapatsfan หลายเดือนก่อน

    So glad we saw the return of Drill and Blast!

  • @simplyepic3258
    @simplyepic3258 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dang, twice the cost per mile as Glenwood Canyon

  • @Szadols
    @Szadols หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This HAI video might as well be wendover episode with a bit of more context added

  • @spastikatenpradikat4163
    @spastikatenpradikat4163 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    You can't just tease Drill and Blast Method and not release it 😭

  • @diecicatorce6259
    @diecicatorce6259 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I appreciate the attempt at adding metric to the measurements even though you kinda gave up halfway through the video

  • @I-OGameDev
    @I-OGameDev หลายเดือนก่อน

    06:00 you didn't have to go that hard with the cutaway gag damn

  • @gumpotronic
    @gumpotronic 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    5:03 - Thanks for breaking it down to US levels of comprehension.

  • @liamthompson8563
    @liamthompson8563 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Drill and blast killed me😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Unoperator
    @Unoperator หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    PLEASE I NEED THE ALBUM

  • @teelo12000
    @teelo12000 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    How is it even an "interstate" when its actually "intrastate"?

    • @crash.override
      @crash.override หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Federal funding, baby!

  • @pegasustargaryen
    @pegasustargaryen หลายเดือนก่อน

    Our most expensive Autobahn is the A44 (Kassel-Eisenach) for only 69 million $ per mile - and it's not even finished yet!