@ dude that was so long ago. And the criminal rate comes with bad adaption to our society and how they can't even escape it. It's sad but nationality has nothing to do with it lmao.
@ This was actually a really good description of the ups and downs of refugees. in this day and age, it seems like you have to say either all refugees are bad or all are good, and its nice to see that other people can see the middle ground.
Take-off and landing ( short stops ) is less efficient. Not withstanding inefficient air-routes, which are common especially near cities due to minimising noise pollution. The climbing to cruising attitude costs quite a lot fuel. Long hauls are more efficient than shorts stops for planes by far due to spending more time at attitude rather than climbing and descending at less optimal heights. Air-resistance is greater at lower attitude and the plane engines are of course made to be maximum efficiency at higher attitude. While descending can be done gliding if the route is decent quite often planes can be stuck at lower attitude on approach or/and descend due to air routes or actually take a steeper less efficient dive. Many factors come at play around airports and with short flights this means that the fuel-economy per unit of distance is just worse.
Did you know the EU is forcing all countries to adapt to the same signaling system so trains will be able to travel through multiple countries. Also interesting is they wanted to do the same with the powering system (50Hz) but it's kinda in limbo since Germany refused to bear the cost of changing systems and now all other countries that where supposed to changed are doing the same. Still just the signals is likely the biggest single project in the EU at the moment, it'll be so nice when you don't have to change trains in the middle of the night when traveling across borders, (you can build trains with both power systems like they have in Sweden/Denmark.)
50 Hz is a current frequency used in the whole Europe for a very long time, but voltages are different. Nowadays, most trains can at least work under two different voltages, and some locomotives, like the Taurus and the Vectron by Siemens or the Traxx by Bombardier, have a transformer capable of making the train work with nearly all the different voltages. Actually the biggest problem is Spain, because the train tracks in Spain are wider than anywhere else (except on their high speed lines to be able to run trains to France)
Whether 25 kV 50 Hz, or 15 kV 16⅔ Hz doesn't make that much of a difference, since it's all AC. More of a problem are the DC systems, like they have in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy. Eastern Europe largely uses 25 kV. But I think that "forcing" is a bit of an exaggeration. Germany, Austria and Sweden are large areas (plus Switzerland and Norway, which aren't in the EU), and it's impractical to change those systems. So it's extremely doubtful that the EU would have ever considered forcing anybody, because the countries involved would have made sure it wouldn't have left the meeting rooms. Also, the EU isn't forcing anybody to change their entire signalling systems to ERTMS. What's important is that international routes, both for passengers and especially freight, are equipped with ERTMS.
imaginox9 I know for a fact at least Sweden and Germany use 16 2/3 Hz systems to power their trains due to that they electrified early on and the electric engines at that time couldn't handle high frequencies well. And most trains today and for the foreseeable future won't have the capability to run on both frequencies unless they are especially built for it. (Usually a transformer on the train as well as separate connector-arms.) But you can also retrofit older models, however it's not cheap and won't be done on a whim.
@@imaginox9 This is not a major problem because they invented an axle that can expand/contract when the gauge changes, but I think the trains have to travel very slow through a section of track designed for the changing axle size. Of course, that technology is expensive and slows down the service, so I think Spain choose to use standard gauge on high-speed trains for improved service to the rest of Europe and because the special trains are very expensive. With standard gauge, Spain can also get bids from companies that have trains designed for standard gauge.
@@afh7689 That already exists actually, but yes it's very expensive to build and to maintain. And I think that only a few passenger trains have it, if not none, but some special freight trains might have it probably. That's why when going between France and Spain with a regular Intercity train, you have to change trains at the border towns of Hendaye (France) and Irún (Spain), where the Renfe (Spanish Railways) have their own platform at Hendaye to permit direct transfer from the French train to the Spanish train stopped at each side of one platform.
I went to it after reading how it was going to be finished that year.. needless to say the only difference is the line separators now have the new airport name on them
The day the BERLIN-Brandenburg Airport (BER) is finished will be the day of the apocalypse. That is the only reason the end of the world was not december 21, 2012
Congratulations for another interesting video. The bridge in Croatia is connecting mainland Croatia not to an island but to the Pelješac peninsula (you never actually said it is an island, but other people have said it in the coments)
The connection and infrastructure that the EU brought is amazing for loads of countries, and essentially helps everyone that's involved. The EU has gotten a lot of shit these past 2 years (especially from the UK), but regardless of one's opinion on the matter, this is a pretty sweet part of being an EU member.
Most projects are not funded by the EU and the ones that have a small amount (so they can plonk down their sign and pretend they built it) are essentially taxpayers money as the EU has no money of its own. It is a giant redistribution scam for bridges and trains to nowhere.
ImperialJohn, no nation has money of it's own, it's all taxes so don't try to be clever. Your taxes afford us Scots a slightly better quality of life to that elsewhere in the UK while Scottish oil is the reason you didn't spend the last 5 decades living in a slum with an outdoor shitter like half the UK did up until the early 60's.
@@im_so_bored3896 Yes. But you can't compare the two. At least in North Korea they don't try to look democratic. In the EU elected representatives can't repeal or make laws. All the power is in the unelected commission.
Huh? Dublin has 527,612 population, Birmingham has 1mil. Edit: You meant the greater area, but west midlands combined authority has 2.8mil. Greater Manchester also has 3.3mil
You forgot about Spain. Barcelona is currently building the longest metro system in Europe with the L9 which will connect three of the biggest cities in Catalonia. Also, Barcelona is planning to open in 2027 a brand new airport terminal, which is going to be the second biggest in Europe. Barcelona also is finishing the Sagrada Familia after almost 300 years of construction, it will become the highest church in the WORLD. On the other side, Madrid is going to build starting from 2020 a new business area, called Castellana Norte, in which will raise the highest building in Europe, with 362m. Also, Spain is creating the Hyperloop, the train that will become is less than 6 years, the fastest ever seen by humanity and will connect the EU, probably with mainland China or with the UAE.
No, Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina aren't landlocked. You're getting his question reversed. Other countries that are almost landlocked are Belgium and especially the Democratic Republic of Congo. There aren't a lot of countries that are close to a sea, but still landlocked. Perhaps Swaziland and Lesotho. One painful example is Bolivia, which used to have access to the Pacific Ocean, but lost it over a war with Chile and Peru. They're still not exactly on speaking terms.
@mjouwbuis: What I meant was that Belgium has a very short coastline (67 km) compared to its surface area. Compare that to the Netherlands, which aren't that much bigger (just over 30%), but have over 500 km of coastline. Plus, Belgium's largest harbour, Antwerp, can only be reached via Dutch territory.
Britain: We want to fight against polution so we won't allow you more landing strips on Heathrow. Also Britain: High Speed 2? Nah, that's too expensive!
I live in Copenhagen In Denmark, and i have never heard of the project before (and i can't find much about on the internet), but if you live in Copenhagen and you wanna see a different country, you just go to Sweden... But everywhere else in Denmark you go to south jutland and buy VERY cheap cigarettes, alcohol and candy
It's been in hiatus for the last couple of years awaiting German litigation. It was already planned in the early 00's, and as far as I remember the original finishing date was set to 2018. So it's kinda depressing that they haven't even started building it yet. And it especially seems unreasonable that it's the Germans holding it back, since Denmark will pay for the whole thing.
I live in northern Germany and I have heard about the Project, but In also heard that it got canceled because the germans living at the half Island, do Not want to live near a motorway.
Reminds me that my country (Singapore) often catches cigarette smugglers as our tobacco taxes (~S$8/€5 per 20 sticks) are pretty high, making cigarettes 3-4x more expensive here (or around in-between the cost in the UK & the rest of Europe) than in neighbouring Malaysia, thus making smuggling a lucrative business. To combat this, in 2009 the country also became the world's 1st to require anti-contraband markings on cigarette sticks
your wrong on the economics as unemployment in the Mediterranean is 40% its only good for germany and france as france can force other countries to do what they want and germany with a under priced currency
The Fehmarn connection is actually a bit controversial here in Denmark. Most towns and "cities" along the Great Belt - Funen - Jutland route are fearing economic damage as far fewer of the many international cargo and passenger journeys to Copenhagen and the rest of Scandinavia will no longer pass through the area.
Yes and it was a condition to get sweden onboard when building the bridge between denmark and sweden. Denmark doesn't really care about it, Germany doesn't really want it. The ones that really want it is swedish rails so they can have a faster connection to Berlin and the rest of mainland europe.
Dublin is not the second biggest city in the British isles. Chicago is not one of the most crowded cities in the world. I’m afraid you just ramble false facts
One of the largest projects in Europe is Via Carpathia road that stretches from the Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria .... It will connect Baltic with the Black Sea, but of course, Brits are too limited with their information bank to know this, as you can only see your own nose and backyard. This project is to be THE LARGEST in Europe, but your video didn't mention it. There is also a huge project for Poland's Central Air Hub between Lodz and Warsaw that is predicted to be one of the largest airports in the world. Cheers.
Another interesting Norwegian project (not extremely huge, but very unique) is the Stad ship tunnel. A tunnel for big boats. Its just 1700m long, but are supposed to be about 37m high and 30m wide. It will bypass a dangerous place to go with boats today because of the weather and how the waves and water flows around the area.
Roads are already jammed, and air quality is beyond lethal and is illegal under EU law. Heathrow runway expansion is a stupid idea. Double Gatwick capacity instead.
Yeah I agree, same is happening around Schiphol. It needs more runways, but because of environmental and traffic related reasons a nearby airport will be expanded instead. Why would you expand in areas that already suffer the consequences of being close to a big airport?
@@RAD1SHARIF Schiphol is the biggest airport in terms of flights in Europe, because it does not only serve passengers but also cargo flights. In terms of passengers it will soon surpass Heathrow and CDG because it's also the fastest growing airport. So yes it will soon need more runways.
The new shinkansen will do the 438 km Tokyo-Osaka trip in 67 minutes, so while saying "slightly under two hours" isn't exactly wrong, it's a bit inaccurate. It travels at 505 km/h.
ibx2cat Why? With a vehicle capable of over 500 kilometers an hour, with three stops, 438 km in a little more than an hour seems perfectly reasonable. It wouldn't surprise me if they get it below the one hour mark with the next generation of train.
Croatia is currently not a part of the Schengen Area, they are just part of the EU. So if you're crossing from Hungary to Croatia you'll have a border control as well because Hungary has to confirm that you have left the Schengen Area but you don't get a stamp into your passport (only if your passport has been issued by a Schengen, EU or EEA member state, otherwise you do) because you haven't left the European Union. This situation gets a bit more complicated if we are talking about a person who has a passport that needs a visa to enter the Schengen Area or the EU. So when this person has a Schengen Visa which provides him/her only one entry to the Schengen Area for example, he/she can leave Hungary to enter Croatia but can not go back to Hungary because the passport will now have a stamp that the person left the Schengen Area, and if this person wants to go to Dubrovnik through Bosnia and Herzegovina even if his/her passport allows him/her to enter the country, the person can not go back to Croatia because he/she left the European Union. So yes, border crossing is a bit complicated...
There's too many megaprojects going on right now even to Europe to mention in one video..but take a look at Norway's plans to build a new Fjord bridge. Look amazing!
Did you make a 30 minute video about megaprojects in Europe without mentioning the largest infrasture project currently on going on Europe? Crossrail? Did I miss something someone please correct me.
Heathrow had six runways from the early 50s until 1970, and three runways until 2002. A Northern expansion was proposed in the 1950s, but cancelled due to public pressure, so this is not a new problem.
There is currently a ferry between mainland Croatia and the peninsula which is connected to Dubrovnik. Bosnia & Herzegovina don't want the bridge to be too low as they would have to impose a height limit on all their shipping.
I know Heathrow was officially given the go ahead to build the new runway but when you talked about limiting the ability for tourism I think maybe you should have mentioned the fact that some of the opposition wasn't just people not wanting more flights but the fact that they felt Gatwick was more suitable and far less likely to face opposition as well as helping to see south London see much needed investment.
London-Heathrow doesn’t quite reach 80mil passengers yet. It’s at roughly 78mil. Atlanta is much bigger in terms of passenger numbers with over 100mil pax.
Unfortunately, the last ICE that went on the Ferry between Puttgarden and Rødby went in October 2017. The Deutsche Bahn discontinued this service, as it was expensive and less reliable due to diesel powered trains. Found that out, when I wanted to from Hamburg to Kopenhagen and was very disappointed about this. :-(
If we go back about 25 years, then there was 3 different places in Denmark where the train was on the ferries, the one from here at Femern [Rødby-Puttgarden], and then there was at Storebælt [Halvskov-Knudshoved], and last but not least from Helsingør, Denmark to Helsingborg Sweden, and now 25 years after, they are no more...
You never talked about the Tallinn-Helsinki 60km underground tunnel, maybe it wasn't worth being as one of the 5 but it could have atleast been mentioned when you were talking about the Baltic rail project otherwise it's a very nice and enjoyable video !
“So um here is err the first um megaproject so it’s like this um kinda like this sorta bridge between like this island and then so like basically it’s kinda sorta gonna like bridge this gap like um between Bosnia, um, err...”
A little advice: if you speak a tiny bit slower, it would be easier to understand, especially for viewers not having English as their mother tongue. It sounds a bit stressed. But apart from that, nice presentation and thank you!
The inhabitants of Fehmarn are doing everything to prevent this tunnel from being built. Most other Germans however are supporting this idea too, especially those relying on the most northern Part of the A7 Highway between Hamburg and the Danish Border since it has to carry almost all traffic between Scandinavia and the Continent.
That Dublin Metro map at 10:22 is very very wrong and outdated. The Orange line is not being built. The Blue Line is going to be heading further South incorporating a section of the Luas Green Line and the purple line has been "shelved indefinitely".
Purple line was very important for commuting from the west. Too bad they shelved it. Also, I'd rather connect DART to airport - which could be done much faster and cheaper then building undergound luas.
The Phoenix Park Tunnel can be seen as a sort of Dart Interconnecter. Irish Rail didn't really want to reopen that link between Connolly and Heuston as they wanted the Interconnecter instead, and rightly so. But what can we do, it's Ireland after all. A Dart spur to the Airport wouldn't work as the Loopline Bridge and the rest of the Northern Line for that matter is at capacity. The best option right now is to hope the Metrolink goes ahead in 2021 and that the Dart Interconnecter follows shortly after.
fiverZ Loopline is a bottleneck agreed, however having rail tracks extended to the airport would allow more people to access it. Routes could go from various directions, serving commuter towns too, not Dublin only! Metro north is expected to be completed by 2027, rail extension could be completed within a year!
I'd be under the impression that heavy rail infrastructure of that scale would be quite expensive without yielding a huge benefit and would therefore fail a cost-benefit analysis. The Metro line will kill two birds with one stone so to speak. And yeah the 2027 date isn't ideal but it's better late than never.
If Iarnróid Éireann got a billion euro investment even once the dart would be expanded in both routes and rolling stock. A new expanded network between Drogheda, Wicklow, Kildare, Maynooth and Navan would reduce the amount of traffic within the city centre. Commuter routes would see a huge increase in frequency along with many intercity routes. The Dublin-Navan line would potentially be expanded to Cavan and maybe even Letterkenny. Clongriffin would serve as a junction for an airport branch line that would see stations in Clare Hall, Clonshaugh, Santry, Ballymun and turn through the airport into Swords. New stations would be built in Bettystown and Dunshaughlin. The Northern line have an extra two lines undergound as far as Skerries to allow Dublin-Belfast services to pass with ease. This would also allow multiple underground platforms in Connolly, Tara Street and Pearse stations to help solve the bottlenecked northern suburban line. Longer distance commuters, some intercity services and peak time darts would use these platforms. Stations like Howth Junction, Balbriggan and Drogheda would become hubs for changing over from intercity to suburban trains. A line using the British rail gauge would be built as far as Howth underground to give potential for a tunnel connection to the North Wales line in Holyhead which would lead to London and beyond into Europe. The Luas could do with some revamps itself. A hefty investment would most likely see the extension of the Green line to Bray and maybe the Airport and Swords. The terminal stop in Connolly would be used to go underground through Fairview and Marino and come back overground at the Artane Roundabout where the middle verge of the Malahide road would be replaced with a Luas line and include stops in Artane, Coolock, Darndale, Clare Hall, Belmayne and maybe a link with the Dart line at Clongriffin. A Luas line serving the west of the city including Blanchardstown and maybe even Dunboyne and Maynooth would be interesting but it would be hard to see where it would go. If it would be underground then a metro would be a better alternative there. Dublin bus just need more buses and better route management is all. Bus Éireann would be completely overhauled by gutting the company of its corrupt bosses and providing a higher frequency to longer distance commuter towns like Rathdrum, Mullingar, Athboy and Kells. The intercity bus services would see an increase in frequency if possible. Dublin airport would have its current runway and the proposed runway extended to 4000 meters to allow larger planes that could fly extremely high frequency routes like Dublin-Heathrow and Dublin-Malaga during the summer. It would also allow planes capable of longer flights to serve Dublin giving direct flights to southern Africa, South America and East Asia. Routes that would see a huge amount of passengers would include Dublin-Hong Kong, Dublin-Singapore, Dublin-Beijing, Dublin-Karachi, Dublin-Delhi, Dublin-Lagos and Dublin-Tokyo. The NTA (shower of cunts) would be completely dissolved and each publin transport company would be run by a publicly elected individual. Well they would be my plans (for Greater Dublin Area anyway) as minister for transport.
As an Irish person hahaha I don't hate you I love ya videos, and I don't expect you to want a United Ireland, I do, and I'm hoping it will happen but it's ok to disagree
I'd be down with a united Ireland (if people wanted) or even a more fragmented one! My only position is that people should stop turning the name and current situation into a political issue. Makes it hard to talk about the facts when people get angry when you state them
@@ibx2cat that's true totally agree with you. Northern Ireland is very complex, the political situation is complex, but as a republic observer it's not hard to see that there are two parties elected who have no interested in the stormont assembly, and they're politizing the issues and the average Joe is suffering
Oh, I can tell you - this train on a ferry 10/10 can recommend. It’s a great experience, you obviously have to leave the train during the crossing, and there’s so much space on a ferry (especially as compared to space in a train). You can walk around, get some food, see the water, ..., stuff you don’t usually have in the middle of a train ride.
Heathrow should have gone all the way and built another 2 runways, to have 4. The third runway just brings them up to where they should have been 25 years ago.
Heathrow should have been passed over and the new airport in the Thames estuary started to be honest. Building a third runway is just throwing money at an airport that will quickly be at full capacity again within 20 years. It's a sticking plaster on a broken arm.
There seems to be enough room below the M4 to fit a 4th runway next to the third without taking down very many houses at all. I hope that's a near-future option.
@@lzh4950 They didn't have the money, not with HS2 and Crossrail both currently in development as HS2 is costing around 80 billion pounds while Crossrail is costing 20 billion pounds, both projects have wiped out London's finances for the next decade. HS2 is the high-speed rail link between central London and Birmingham while Crossrail is a new 70 mile subway route from the farthest reaches of west London to the farthest reaches of east London. An *'artery through the city'* Because of these two major projects there was no cash left for a new airport, but in my opinion it would have been worth getting into debt to build the new airport because as I said before - building this new runway at Heathrow will be like putting a bandage around a broken arm. It won't help. Heathrow is already operating at around 130% to 140% of capacity with just two runways, when the new third runway opens there will be an influx of new routes and new operators and they will quickly fill up the capacity of all three runways and Heathrow will be over-stressed again. This third runway is no solution for a major city, London needs an airport with 5 or 6 runways, like every other major hub in the world. Also Heathrow is in the middle of a village on the western edge of London and the people there don't want extra runways, extra noise and extra traffic - the new airport on the Thames estuary would have been in the middle of nowhere so loud jets taking off every 10 minutes would not harm anyone. Happy New Year Zhi Han 😊
Blindly being in favour of expanding Heathrow seems somewhat shortsighted to me. Who says airplanes will need a hub station 30 years from now? Who says airplanes will be as popular as they are now 30 years later? Can Heathrow really compete with Paris and Schiphol, whom have way more space and way less complaining neighbours? If so at what cost and is that worth it?
You are right, we should never make any advancements or expansions based on current problems because we cannot know the future, we should just stay how we are, never changing.
Personally, I'm somewhat interested to see how HS2 will turn out. Having 250mph trains across Britain is quite an exciting prospect - although upgrading existing lines would also be welcome.
Making existing lines faster would just destroy regional commuter and freight capacity existing lines need more rails for cut offs, better junctions and stations not idiotic speed limit increases.
@@thomasgray4188 Which is what I've come to find out over the last four years. Now, I look back at this comment, remember when I thought it was all about speed, and cringe.
well isnt frankfurt not only 4th biggest? schipol is bigger or not? (passengers per year). maybe when the new terminal is finished it will be 3rd biggest.
@@Ginkoman2 no its just the companys will have to pay to allow them on. Why would they pay for them, they wont and they will just remove them essentially pricing out of existence
David Webb still easy let’s say you live in that island and now you have access to your own country without having to go through another it just makes people feel better and if they like a town or restaurant in Croatia they can just be through Croatia but either way Bosnia isn’t joining anytime soon
If you are talking about large airport projects in Europe don't you think the new Istanbul airport is a bigger project than a new addition to Heathrow? It's being built in the European part of Istanbul and will be the largest in Europe. You should have done a better research before uploading this video.
Or a video about the most likely (insert country here)-exits in the nearish future - Hungary definitely up there, but Italy and a couple others are getting close. Maybe show how the map of the EU could look like in 30 years when some countries have left and some joined. Also accidental leaving like if Catalonia or Scotland go independent and so leave the EU at least "technically". I think those other potential leaving countries are watching the UK now to see how it goes. The likely mess it'll be (due to terrible leaders and negotiators on both sides IMHO) could set back their leaving, but it'll probably happen someday anyway - it's just when.
I am Hungarian. Hungary is not leaving the EU, because it would be a stupid move for us. Orban is just an opportunistic, populist criminal not a moron like Farage.
mrcreepercraft48 Far more likely to be kicked out or at least lose their voting rights. However, it still is unlikely considering that more than 20-21 of the countries must agree.
The worst part about the airport deal is; It would only be even worse in terms of pollution if there's no direct flight. People would be using more flights/transports to get to the same place, which in the end just pollutes far more than a direct route.
Very interesting video, well researched with a great maps and visual aids! (At least the part I watched, I'm assuming it maintains throughout.) Now I don't mean to be a downer, but I couldn't finish it. I hope that you can take some constructive criticism without being offended or getting upset because I genuinely like you and think you've got great potential. SLOW down! Speak clearly and enunciate carefully. Finish all of the words and sentences you begin or edit them out entirely. It may take a bit of practice and getting used to for you to slow down and maintain a reasonable, steady rate and rhythm of speech. You will actually find that you can be more creative and expressive by relaxing to a much less frenetic pace. You could even speed yourself back up again digitally if you really felt the need, but at least everything would have been pronounced carefully without words and phrases being cut short. Anyway, that's just my two cents worth that I think has the potential to significantly increase and improve the quality of your videos and your views… Cheers!
I totally agree. He speaks way too fast and I, as a native English speaker, have difficulty in understanding what he says. If you read the comments on his many other subjects he has posted you will see the same comments time and time again. I think he is too egoistic to change. He is often inaccurate so people, don't believe everything that he says. As an aside his map of all countries does not show South Africa as having an underground railway but it has. three lines serving Pretoria, Rhodes Field and O.R. Tambo airport from central Johannesburg and Sandton. Some do run above ground but are not part of the national rail network.
The UK really needs to build a new gateway airport because Heathrow has had it now. We always underestimate what we will need in the future. Heathrow should have been built with more runways a long time ago. Maybe it will get a third eventually but it still doesn't solve the problem. There are a lot of homes and built up areas around the airport now so expansion is not as easy with all the planning regulations etc. And it is never ideal to force people to move at the barrel of a gun using State force. I always thought that the better options for expansion in London was Gatwick, not Heathrow. There seems to still be more room to expand down there and build additional runways. The building of more runways and these expansions though I believe are only a temporary stop-gap solution and will also soon reach capacity. A new gateway airport is really needed for London if it wants to remain relevant and compete with the likes if Amsterdam Schipol going forward and probably needs to be built somewhere in the East-South-East of the Capital. Another example of our poor future planning is the M62. It should have been built with six lanes in either direction but they decided on three instead. They had to expand that to four in places and even use the hard shoulder to relieve congestion and have managed motorways on sections now. It is a congested mess. Still it was a great project and I like that one stubborn Yorkshire Farmer wouldn't move for it. You forgot to mention the project in Europe to link up Ukraine with Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia by rail. I'm not sure why it is not going on to Estonia? Will we see something to connect Malta with Sicily and Italy? Would love to know your thoughts on HS2. Is it a waste of taxpayers money? Why didn't they fully privatise the current network? All the problems seem to be with the government-owned part namely Railtrack?
I always thought the best bet for expansion was to allow both airports to expand, so we have actual competition for the hub status, and capacity for more than 10-15 years worth of flight increases. Malta is sadly not enough of an economic region to get its own bridge yet, I don't think. I'd love to see some better link from Europe to the outer islands, but I don't think it's gonna be possible for a while. Also, HS2 to me is an expensive project but I don't think necessarily a waste of tax payers money. I think we should've had a more ambitious route than London to Manchester, but I'm not against the idea for cost reasons - I think this is the sort of project that can make its money back if it's successful. Honestly I'm pro private rail, but I think rail track taught us that government owned tracks are important. I think they should be using their status as -the government- to encourage more competition on the tracks though, as opposed to single franchises that sometimes overlap, every major section of track should have 2+ operators
More runways at an airport doesn't necessarily mean more capacity as there are some factors playing a role here. One of them is the wind direction. At Heathrow, winds mostly go from west to east, hence 2 runways from east to west. At Amsterdam (number 3, not 4) you'll find 6 runways indeed, but are in tangential layout instead of parallel like Heathrow. This is because winds are much less predictable in this area and other wind directions are served as well.
I have a very stupid idea for expanding heathrow airport. Instead of building the second runway at heathrow, build it at gatwick, then have a train going between the secure area of the airports, so you can have a connecting flight that arrives at gatwick but departs from heathrow. Again, i know it's a stupid idea.
Joining the two with a high speed train ain't a bad idea, but an expensive and faroff one of course. The real problem is that Gatwick, with only 1 runway and still being a huge airport, is also at capacity and can't take much more flights. Gatwick needs a 2nd runway as well as Heathrow needing a 3rd, it'd be less awkward to build one at Gatwick though.
There is a proposal for a new High Speed Line, called HS4Air connecting Heathrow and Gatwick, and will also extend to Ashford to connect with High Speed 1 and the Channel Tunnel, and to Old Oak Common in London to connect with the under-construction High Speed 2 towards Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, so potentially there could be direct services between cities north of London and the rest of Europe, as well as a high speed airport shuttle service on the same line which would better justify the cost
Yes .. i will mention your knowledge on Ireland. Historically poor for centuries due to british rule. Not because we just couldnt sort or country out. We arent just well off due to foreign coroporations, we have created alot of our own wealth and followed EU plans carefully. Ireland is a very wealthy country. We are ahead of the UK on living standards and most of the US. Only countires ahead of us are the nordics, germany, netherlands, austria, canada and new zealand. But dublin is a mess of infrastructre. By 2030 we should have that fixed. But do remember dublin was a mess until we got wealthy in the 90s. Ireland will have 10 million people by 2050, dublin 3.5 million. Making it one of europes most important cities. Ireland has a very bright future, even brexit will benefit us as the last anglo country in the EU.
Shane Hughes Manchester will have like 5 million by 2050 and is building its economy without the EU in mind meaning that it won’t be hugely effected by brexit. Dublin will the very wealthy but Manchester will be a powerhouse and will be comparable to somewhere like Munich, Rome and Barcelona
In Sweden we just had an election last Sunday. Environment and airplane politics were one of the most important issues here. Last 4 years Sweden was ruled by the Social Democrats and Greens and during that time they passed a law to put taxes on all flights in Sweden both domestic and international. This made ticket prices go up and we had direct flights to some destinations in USA stop completely. You can't find a direct flight in Sweden to the USA at a reasonable price anymore and now the airline companies have announced they will look to close even more flights in Sweden and instead open them up in Köpenhamn and Oslo. This is hurting the economy alot. The Green party are not helping the environment, they are just moving the problem to Denmark and Norway! The Centre party and the Alliance block wants to remove these taxes and pass a law to force airline companies to mix in a small percent of biofuel in the airplanes fuel. I think this is a much better approach than the high taxes that the Green party wants, because this will actually reduce pollution and grow the economy at the same time. As you know Sweden is big country to the size but not so many people live here. We have a huge forest industry and it's one of our biggest exports. We have plenty of forest to make more biofuel. At the same time we won't be as dependent on Russia and Saudi Arabia for oil imports.
Fuel is anyway bad! Flying is bad same as big container ships! These two things are way worse than fuel cars! So there need to be strictlier laws for ships too! And flying only when necessary. And btw. There are no reasonable flight prices to the US anywhere! And direct flights are in 99% of cases more expensive.
love your coverage of Ireland, its really hard to do fair and unbiased discussion on it and I think I can speak from everyone here that we love you man
4 Major European Mega Projects + A Brit whinging about Heathrow airport for 10 minutes LOL
that's probably a better title haha
no need for expanding heathrow anymore xD see Brexit is good for something :D
proper title 4 his work xD
Person222 Such as? Some Daily Fail and Sun lies.
it needs expanding to keep up with newer bigger airports and the impact on gdp will be huge
EU: "Shall we just invite Bosnia into the Schengen Area?"
EU: "Nah, lets just build a giant bridge"
I was in the German däinoch fair with the train
@ what's wrong with refugees?
@ dude that was so long ago. And the criminal rate comes with bad adaption to our society and how they can't even escape it. It's sad but nationality has nothing to do with it lmao.
@ This was actually a really good description of the ups and downs of refugees. in this day and age, it seems like you have to say either all refugees are bad or all are good, and its nice to see that other people can see the middle ground.
Yea
better invest in highspeed trains in europe, so not everybody flies from frankfurt to london, because thats very bad for the environment.
Jonas Thomi per kilometer planes are very efficient, it's just the enormous distances that they travel
@@viniislaif1532 I mean in terms of renewable energy.
Take-off and landing ( short stops ) is less efficient. Not withstanding inefficient air-routes, which are common especially near cities due to minimising noise pollution. The climbing to cruising attitude costs quite a lot fuel. Long hauls are more efficient than shorts stops for planes by far due to spending more time at attitude rather than climbing and descending at less optimal heights. Air-resistance is greater at lower attitude and the plane engines are of course made to be maximum efficiency at higher attitude. While descending can be done gliding if the route is decent quite often planes can be stuck at lower attitude on approach or/and descend due to air routes or actually take a steeper less efficient dive. Many factors come at play around airports and with short flights this means that the fuel-economy per unit of distance is just worse.
Vini Is Laif thats bullshit, planes are the most polluting transportation vehicle
Its more so for international flights to London then people from just Europe to get to London...
Can this be a series?
Love Me Please!!! - You are being loved. You are in an ocean of love. Love is all around.
@@virvisquevir3320 What
@@CrumpetCraig Love me please !!! Is her name
@@scrry374 I’m not even gonna ask
Did you know the EU is forcing all countries to adapt to the same signaling system so trains will be able to travel through multiple countries. Also interesting is they wanted to do the same with the powering system (50Hz) but it's kinda in limbo since Germany refused to bear the cost of changing systems and now all other countries that where supposed to changed are doing the same.
Still just the signals is likely the biggest single project in the EU at the moment, it'll be so nice when you don't have to change trains in the middle of the night when traveling across borders, (you can build trains with both power systems like they have in Sweden/Denmark.)
50 Hz is a current frequency used in the whole Europe for a very long time, but voltages are different. Nowadays, most trains can at least work under two different voltages, and some locomotives, like the Taurus and the Vectron by Siemens or the Traxx by Bombardier, have a transformer capable of making the train work with nearly all the different voltages. Actually the biggest problem is Spain, because the train tracks in Spain are wider than anywhere else (except on their high speed lines to be able to run trains to France)
Whether 25 kV 50 Hz, or 15 kV 16⅔ Hz doesn't make that much of a difference, since it's all AC. More of a problem are the DC systems, like they have in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy. Eastern Europe largely uses 25 kV.
But I think that "forcing" is a bit of an exaggeration. Germany, Austria and Sweden are large areas (plus Switzerland and Norway, which aren't in the EU), and it's impractical to change those systems. So it's extremely doubtful that the EU would have ever considered forcing anybody, because the countries involved would have made sure it wouldn't have left the meeting rooms.
Also, the EU isn't forcing anybody to change their entire signalling systems to ERTMS. What's important is that international routes, both for passengers and especially freight, are equipped with ERTMS.
imaginox9 I know for a fact at least Sweden and Germany use 16 2/3 Hz systems to power their trains due to that they electrified early on and the electric engines at that time couldn't handle high frequencies well. And most trains today and for the foreseeable future won't have the capability to run on both frequencies unless they are especially built for it. (Usually a transformer on the train as well as separate connector-arms.) But you can also retrofit older models, however it's not cheap and won't be done on a whim.
@@imaginox9 This is not a major problem because they invented an axle that can expand/contract when the gauge changes, but I think the trains have to travel very slow through a section of track designed for the changing axle size. Of course, that technology is expensive and slows down the service, so I think Spain choose to use standard gauge on high-speed trains for improved service to the rest of Europe and because the special trains are very expensive. With standard gauge, Spain can also get bids from companies that have trains designed for standard gauge.
@@afh7689 That already exists actually, but yes it's very expensive to build and to maintain. And I think that only a few passenger trains have it, if not none, but some special freight trains might have it probably. That's why when going between France and Spain with a regular Intercity train, you have to change trains at the border towns of Hendaye (France) and Irún (Spain), where the Renfe (Spanish Railways) have their own platform at Hendaye to permit direct transfer from the French train to the Spanish train stopped at each side of one platform.
What about Berlin airport? Wait, I forgot, it is never going to be finished.
we don't talk about Berlin airport 😂😂😂
I went to it after reading how it was going to be finished that year.. needless to say the only difference is the line separators now have the new airport name on them
The day the BERLIN-Brandenburg Airport (BER) is finished will be the day of the apocalypse. That is the only reason the end of the world was not december 21, 2012
Its the berlin parking lot now
Half of all doors now work!
Please talk 10 % slower and 20 % less and you will get 30 % more said =P
@@methmike9050 yea but then the video becomes even longer =P
I watched it in 1.5x speed.
Optimal information intake per minute.
@Damian Curie you mean about everything haha
Not to be rude or anything, but you talk like you drank 5 cans of Red Bull before this video :D
Yes, I once told him to talk FASTER 🤣
@@gpan62 So all of this is YOUR fault?
Can you PLEASE speak faster?
just change the speed of the video he sounds okay on x1.5 speed
Do it at speed 1.5x
speed up the video to 1.25x he is like rap god
Why doesn't anyone get the sarcasm
@@ceckataceckata5357 rly
Poland building the largest hub for europe including a massive airport and trainstation
Toycat for half the video: heathrow third runway
Congratulations for another interesting video. The bridge in Croatia is connecting mainland Croatia not to an island but to the Pelješac peninsula (you never actually said it is an island, but other people have said it in the coments)
That bridge mentioned in Croatia has today been officially opened!
The connection and infrastructure that the EU brought is amazing for loads of countries, and essentially helps everyone that's involved.
The EU has gotten a lot of shit these past 2 years (especially from the UK), but regardless of one's opinion on the matter, this is a pretty sweet part of being an EU member.
Most projects are not funded by the EU and the ones that have a small amount (so they can plonk down their sign and pretend they built it) are essentially taxpayers money as the EU has no money of its own. It is a giant redistribution scam for bridges and trains to nowhere.
It's completely undemocratic
paul josephs oh rly? i take you are femiliar with an authoritarian state a-la north korea are you?
ImperialJohn, no nation has money of it's own, it's all taxes so don't try to be clever. Your taxes afford us Scots a slightly better quality of life to that elsewhere in the UK while Scottish oil is the reason you didn't spend the last 5 decades living in a slum with an outdoor shitter like half the UK did up until the early 60's.
@@im_so_bored3896
Yes. But you can't compare the two. At least in North Korea they don't try to look democratic. In the EU elected representatives can't repeal or make laws. All the power is in the unelected commission.
Huh? Dublin has 527,612 population, Birmingham has 1mil.
Edit: You meant the greater area, but west midlands combined authority has 2.8mil. Greater Manchester also has 3.3mil
Zaixai I thought the same thing, perhaps he just meant it literally? As in surface area
Michael Greenhalgh Nah, the Birmingham-Wolverhampton area’s massive
He defo meant population because he said "more than half the population in one city" or something.
What's London then?
London population? 8 mil
You forgot about Spain. Barcelona is currently building the longest metro system in Europe with the L9 which will connect three of the biggest cities in Catalonia. Also, Barcelona is planning to open in 2027 a brand new airport terminal, which is going to be the second biggest in Europe. Barcelona also is finishing the Sagrada Familia after almost 300 years of construction, it will become the highest church in the WORLD. On the other side, Madrid is going to build starting from 2020 a new business area, called Castellana Norte, in which will raise the highest building in Europe, with 362m. Also, Spain is creating the Hyperloop, the train that will become is less than 6 years, the fastest ever seen by humanity and will connect the EU, probably with mainland China or with the UAE.
didn't they start building la sagrada familia in ~1920?
362m make it the third highest building in Europe
"Infrastructure is something everyone agrees it's good"
*laughs in Italian*
Can you do a video on the countries that are closest to not being landlocked but are landlocked?
Iraq, Bosnia. Iraq's coast is crazy.
No, Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina aren't landlocked. You're getting his question reversed. Other countries that are almost landlocked are Belgium and especially the Democratic Republic of Congo. There aren't a lot of countries that are close to a sea, but still landlocked. Perhaps Swaziland and Lesotho. One painful example is Bolivia, which used to have access to the Pacific Ocean, but lost it over a war with Chile and Peru. They're still not exactly on speaking terms.
Belgium has a full coastline spanning the country north-south and is in no way almost landlocked.
Severity One oh yea I just realised lol.
@mjouwbuis: What I meant was that Belgium has a very short coastline (67 km) compared to its surface area. Compare that to the Netherlands, which aren't that much bigger (just over 30%), but have over 500 km of coastline. Plus, Belgium's largest harbour, Antwerp, can only be reached via Dutch territory.
Britain: We want to fight against polution so we won't allow you more landing strips on Heathrow.
Also Britain: High Speed 2? Nah, that's too expensive!
I live in Copenhagen In Denmark, and i have never heard of the project before (and i can't find much about on the internet), but if you live in Copenhagen and you wanna see a different country, you just go to Sweden... But everywhere else in Denmark you go to south jutland and buy VERY cheap cigarettes, alcohol and candy
It's been in hiatus for the last couple of years awaiting German litigation. It was already planned in the early 00's, and as far as I remember the original finishing date was set to 2018. So it's kinda depressing that they haven't even started building it yet. And it especially seems unreasonable that it's the Germans holding it back, since Denmark will pay for the whole thing.
TBH we aren't really famous for doing projects on time... :P
I live in northern Germany and I have heard about the Project, but In also heard that it got canceled because the germans living at the half Island, do Not want to live near a motorway.
Reminds me that my country (Singapore) often catches cigarette smugglers as our tobacco taxes (~S$8/€5 per 20 sticks) are pretty high, making cigarettes 3-4x more expensive here (or around in-between the cost in the UK & the rest of Europe) than in neighbouring Malaysia, thus making smuggling a lucrative business. To combat this, in 2009 the country also became the world's 1st to require anti-contraband markings on cigarette sticks
The EU is one of, if not the, greatest achievements in human history.
😂
It's great as an economic union, bad as a political one. It's a bit to one minded.
your wrong on the economics as unemployment in the Mediterranean is 40% its only good for germany and france as france can force other countries to do what they want and germany with a under priced currency
It would be if it had stuck to its original principles
Daniel Spaniel, yeah right... says a citizen of the UK, one of the most politically corrupt nations in the whole world.
What we see: a map of europe
What he sees: *EVERYTHING *
what else is there really
@Bingus Khan I'm not american nor from either american continent
@Bingus Khan Ireland why
Belgrade metro- 4,5 billion euros
Belgrade Waterfront (urban renewal project)-3,5 billion
Budapest-Belgrade high speed rail- 3 billion eur
The new train line in Japan, they basically drew a straight line through the mountains and almost the entire thing will be in tunnels.
Sadly Europe can't afford it.
@@ajx9747 they could, but the politicians in Europe don't like trains...
@@fjellyo3261 lol Europe is a bankrupt socialist hellhole
@@ajx9747 far from socialist. Ruling parties are all very concervative and liberal (economically).
The Fehmarn connection is actually a bit controversial here in Denmark. Most towns and "cities" along the Great Belt - Funen - Jutland route are fearing economic damage as far fewer of the many international cargo and passenger journeys to Copenhagen and the rest of Scandinavia will no longer pass through the area.
Yes and it was a condition to get sweden onboard when building the bridge between denmark and sweden. Denmark doesn't really care about it, Germany doesn't really want it. The ones that really want it is swedish rails so they can have a faster connection to Berlin and the rest of mainland europe.
Dublin is not the second biggest city in the British isles. Chicago is not one of the most crowded cities in the world. I’m afraid you just ramble false facts
The Dublin metro also hasn't started being built as he says and isn't set to for years
Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK isn't it - then Manchester? Glasgow is bigger than Dublin too...
One of the largest projects in Europe is Via Carpathia road that stretches from the Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria .... It will connect Baltic with the Black Sea, but of course, Brits are too limited with their information bank to know this, as you can only see your own nose and backyard. This project is to be THE LARGEST in Europe, but your video didn't mention it. There is also a huge project for Poland's Central Air Hub between Lodz and Warsaw that is predicted to be one of the largest airports in the world. Cheers.
Another interesting Norwegian project (not extremely huge, but very unique) is the Stad ship tunnel. A tunnel for big boats. Its just 1700m long, but are supposed to be about 37m high and 30m wide. It will bypass a dangerous place to go with boats today because of the weather and how the waves and water flows around the area.
Where are you getting your population stats? From what I can find both Birmingham and Manchester are bigger.
Roads are already jammed, and air quality is beyond lethal and is illegal under EU law. Heathrow runway expansion is a stupid idea. Double Gatwick capacity instead.
Yeah I agree, same is happening around Schiphol. It needs more runways, but because of environmental and traffic related reasons a nearby airport will be expanded instead. Why would you expand in areas that already suffer the consequences of being close to a big airport?
RestrictedArea schipol needs more?😂 IT HAS 6!
@@RAD1SHARIF Schiphol is the biggest airport in terms of flights in Europe, because it does not only serve passengers but also cargo flights. In terms of passengers it will soon surpass Heathrow and CDG because it's also the fastest growing airport. So yes it will soon need more runways.
The fact that the UK won't have proper high speed rail until the late 2020s is such a joke, a lot of european countries have had it for ages now
The new shinkansen will do the 438 km Tokyo-Osaka trip in 67 minutes, so while saying "slightly under two hours" isn't exactly wrong, it's a bit inaccurate. It travels at 505 km/h.
I believe the times I saw must be the average time, not the fastest time. 67 Minutes is absurd!!
Wow, it's almost like the hyperloop. Except it will actually happen.
ibx2cat Why? With a vehicle capable of over 500 kilometers an hour, with three stops, 438 km in a little more than an hour seems perfectly reasonable. It wouldn't surprise me if they get it below the one hour mark with the next generation of train.
@@8NCLI8 without any stop less than one hour is easy ;).
Croatia is currently not a part of the Schengen Area, they are just part of the EU. So if you're crossing from Hungary to Croatia you'll have a border control as well because Hungary has to confirm that you have left the Schengen Area but you don't get a stamp into your passport (only if your passport has been issued by a Schengen, EU or EEA member state, otherwise you do) because you haven't left the European Union. This situation gets a bit more complicated if we are talking about a person who has a passport that needs a visa to enter the Schengen Area or the EU. So when this person has a Schengen Visa which provides him/her only one entry to the Schengen Area for example, he/she can leave Hungary to enter Croatia but can not go back to Hungary because the passport will now have a stamp that the person left the Schengen Area, and if this person wants to go to Dubrovnik through Bosnia and Herzegovina even if his/her passport allows him/her to enter the country, the person can not go back to Croatia because he/she left the European Union.
So yes, border crossing is a bit complicated...
There's too many megaprojects going on right now even to Europe to mention in one video..but take a look at Norway's plans to build a new Fjord bridge. Look amazing!
Norway can afjord it
Interesting video! Shouldn't the Brenner Tunnel be in the list as well though? (A tunnel under the Alps from Austria to Italy)
I think Birmingham is bigger than Dublin
Did you make a 30 minute video about megaprojects in Europe without mentioning the largest infrasture project currently on going on Europe? Crossrail? Did I miss something someone please correct me.
You didn't even talk about the massive Helsinki Tallin tunnel plan which will become the longest railway tunnel and undersea tunnel in the world!
There are a number of Alps base tunnel projects still to be constructed in Switzerland. Did you overlook them because they are not an EU member?
Heathrow had six runways from the early 50s until 1970, and three runways until 2002. A Northern expansion was proposed in the 1950s, but cancelled due to public pressure, so this is not a new problem.
There is currently a ferry between mainland Croatia and the peninsula which is connected to Dubrovnik. Bosnia & Herzegovina don't want the bridge to be too low as they would have to impose a height limit on all their shipping.
I know Heathrow was officially given the go ahead to build the new runway but when you talked about limiting the ability for tourism I think maybe you should have mentioned the fact that some of the opposition wasn't just people not wanting more flights but the fact that they felt Gatwick was more suitable and far less likely to face opposition as well as helping to see south London see much needed investment.
Gatwick’s owners.. aren’t the ones with the money and desire to do so though. Heathrow’s are.
London-Heathrow doesn’t quite reach 80mil passengers yet. It’s at roughly 78mil. Atlanta is much bigger in terms of passenger numbers with over 100mil pax.
WHAT?! They put the train on a ferry to get across the water??? that's insane lmao, i never knew that was a thing!
Unfortunately, the last ICE that went on the Ferry between Puttgarden and Rødby went in October 2017. The Deutsche Bahn discontinued this service, as it was expensive and less reliable due to diesel powered trains. Found that out, when I wanted to from Hamburg to Kopenhagen and was very disappointed about this. :-(
you know that was the same to cross the channel between France and UK, before the tunnel.
Damn that's horrible! I took that line a few years ago and it was a really cool experience- sad to see it gotten rid of.
There's a similar train/ferry across the Straits of Messina and there used to be one from Dover to Calais.
If we go back about 25 years, then there was 3 different places in Denmark where the train was on the ferries, the one from here at Femern [Rødby-Puttgarden], and then there was at Storebælt [Halvskov-Knudshoved], and last but not least from Helsingør, Denmark to Helsingborg Sweden, and now 25 years after, they are no more...
You never talked about the Tallinn-Helsinki 60km underground tunnel, maybe it wasn't worth being as one of the 5 but it could have atleast been mentioned when you were talking about the Baltic rail project otherwise it's a very nice and enjoyable video !
“So um here is err the first um megaproject so it’s like this um kinda like this sorta bridge between like this island and then so like basically it’s kinda sorta gonna like bridge this gap like um between Bosnia, um, err...”
Dead xD
A little advice: if you speak a tiny bit slower, it would be easier to understand, especially for viewers not having English as their mother tongue. It sounds a bit stressed.
But apart from that, nice presentation and thank you!
Watching this in 0.75 makes this so much more enjoyable. btw Do you even breathe in and out?
King NXT agree
Amazing how much this helps
1.5x for me
Yeah i watch all HIS videos in 1,25
My sister talks like this. My brain can’t keep up with her. Maybe it’s a side effect of being intelligent?
What abot Belgrade Waterfront and new highway connecting Serbia and Montenegro?
Croatia being split in two does look and remind me a whole lot of the German territory past the treaty of Versailles
Silly Toycat. You forgot the simple rule of "not in my backyard". People want these projects, but not anywhere near them.
The inhabitants of Fehmarn are doing everything to prevent this tunnel from being built. Most other Germans however are supporting this idea too, especially those relying on the most northern Part of the A7 Highway between Hamburg and the Danish Border since it has to carry almost all traffic between Scandinavia and the Continent.
Rail Baltica is indeed moving along. Construction works are underway in all 3 of the countries.
That Dublin Metro map at 10:22 is very very wrong and outdated. The Orange line is not being built. The Blue Line is going to be heading further South incorporating a section of the Luas Green Line and the purple line has been "shelved indefinitely".
Purple line was very important for commuting from the west. Too bad they shelved it. Also, I'd rather connect DART to airport - which could be done much faster and cheaper then building undergound luas.
The Phoenix Park Tunnel can be seen as a sort of Dart Interconnecter. Irish Rail didn't really want to reopen that link between Connolly and Heuston as they wanted the Interconnecter instead, and rightly so. But what can we do, it's Ireland after all.
A Dart spur to the Airport wouldn't work as the Loopline Bridge and the rest of the Northern Line for that matter is at capacity.
The best option right now is to hope the Metrolink goes ahead in 2021 and that the Dart Interconnecter follows shortly after.
fiverZ Loopline is a bottleneck agreed, however having rail tracks extended to the airport would allow more people to access it. Routes could go from various directions, serving commuter towns too, not Dublin only!
Metro north is expected to be completed by 2027, rail extension could be completed within a year!
I'd be under the impression that heavy rail infrastructure of that scale would be quite expensive without yielding a huge benefit and would therefore fail a cost-benefit analysis. The Metro line will kill two birds with one stone so to speak. And yeah the 2027 date isn't ideal but it's better late than never.
If Iarnróid Éireann got a billion euro investment even once the dart would be expanded in both routes and rolling stock. A new expanded network between Drogheda, Wicklow, Kildare, Maynooth and Navan would reduce the amount of traffic within the city centre. Commuter routes would see a huge increase in frequency along with many intercity routes. The Dublin-Navan line would potentially be expanded to Cavan and maybe even Letterkenny. Clongriffin would serve as a junction for an airport branch line that would see stations in Clare Hall, Clonshaugh, Santry, Ballymun and turn through the airport into Swords. New stations would be built in Bettystown and Dunshaughlin. The Northern line have an extra two lines undergound as far as Skerries to allow Dublin-Belfast services to pass with ease. This would also allow multiple underground platforms in Connolly, Tara Street and Pearse stations to help solve the bottlenecked northern suburban line. Longer distance commuters, some intercity services and peak time darts would use these platforms. Stations like Howth Junction, Balbriggan and Drogheda would become hubs for changing over from intercity to suburban trains. A line using the British rail gauge would be built as far as Howth underground to give potential for a tunnel connection to the North Wales line in Holyhead which would lead to London and beyond into Europe.
The Luas could do with some revamps itself. A hefty investment would most likely see the extension of the Green line to Bray and maybe the Airport and Swords. The terminal stop in Connolly would be used to go underground through Fairview and Marino and come back overground at the Artane Roundabout where the middle verge of the Malahide road would be replaced with a Luas line and include stops in Artane, Coolock, Darndale, Clare Hall, Belmayne and maybe a link with the Dart line at Clongriffin. A Luas line serving the west of the city including Blanchardstown and maybe even Dunboyne and Maynooth would be interesting but it would be hard to see where it would go. If it would be underground then a metro would be a better alternative there.
Dublin bus just need more buses and better route management is all. Bus Éireann would be completely overhauled by gutting the company of its corrupt bosses and providing a higher frequency to longer distance commuter towns like Rathdrum, Mullingar, Athboy and Kells. The intercity bus services would see an increase in frequency if possible.
Dublin airport would have its current runway and the proposed runway extended to 4000 meters to allow larger planes that could fly extremely high frequency routes like Dublin-Heathrow and Dublin-Malaga during the summer. It would also allow planes capable of longer flights to serve Dublin giving direct flights to southern Africa, South America and East Asia. Routes that would see a huge amount of passengers would include Dublin-Hong Kong, Dublin-Singapore, Dublin-Beijing, Dublin-Karachi, Dublin-Delhi, Dublin-Lagos and Dublin-Tokyo.
The NTA (shower of cunts) would be completely dissolved and each publin transport company would be run by a publicly elected individual.
Well they would be my plans (for Greater Dublin Area anyway) as minister for transport.
How is expanding Heathrow compatible with our commitments under the Paris agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
As an Irish person hahaha I don't hate you I love ya videos, and I don't expect you to want a United Ireland, I do, and I'm hoping it will happen but it's ok to disagree
I'd be down with a united Ireland (if people wanted) or even a more fragmented one! My only position is that people should stop turning the name and current situation into a political issue. Makes it hard to talk about the facts when people get angry when you state them
@@ibx2cat that's true totally agree with you. Northern Ireland is very complex, the political situation is complex, but as a republic observer it's not hard to see that there are two parties elected who have no interested in the stormont assembly, and they're politizing the issues and the average Joe is suffering
@ThatCrazy Drunk troll
ThatCrazy Drunk what really
ThatCrazy Drunk lmao 😂
why did 1 in 4 people dislike this
Oh, I can tell you - this train on a ferry 10/10 can recommend. It’s a great experience, you obviously have to leave the train during the crossing, and there’s so much space on a ferry (especially as compared to space in a train). You can walk around, get some food, see the water, ..., stuff you don’t usually have in the middle of a train ride.
"people don't just not go on holiday because it's expensive" --- uh that is how a lot of people work.
You go on holiday via a different flight, as there are 5 other London airports to choose from
“Just in case Germany doesn’t Germany again” I’m dead 😂
One Suggestion: Smoke Weed before every video! It'll give you the perfect speech speed
I dont know do you count Turkey as a european country or not but they are building the bigest airport in world in Istanbul (european part)
I was going to count them in but since they Elected Erdogan .
no thanks
Heathrow should have gone all the way and built another 2 runways, to have 4. The third runway just brings them up to where they should have been 25 years ago.
Heathrow should have been passed over and the new airport in the Thames estuary started to be honest. Building a third runway is just throwing money at an airport that will quickly be at full capacity again within 20 years. It's a sticking plaster on a broken arm.
There seems to be enough room below the M4 to fit a 4th runway next to the third without taking down very many houses at all. I hope that's a near-future option.
@@krashd Heard they didn't have the money to move the airport to the Thames estuary also?
@@lzh4950 They didn't have the money, not with HS2 and Crossrail both currently in development as HS2 is costing around 80 billion pounds while Crossrail is costing 20 billion pounds, both projects have wiped out London's finances for the next decade.
HS2 is the high-speed rail link between central London and Birmingham while Crossrail is a new 70 mile subway route from the farthest reaches of west London to the farthest reaches of east London. An *'artery through the city'*
Because of these two major projects there was no cash left for a new airport, but in my opinion it would have been worth getting into debt to build the new airport because as I said before - building this new runway at Heathrow will be like putting a bandage around a broken arm. It won't help.
Heathrow is already operating at around 130% to 140% of capacity with just two runways, when the new third runway opens there will be an influx of new routes and new operators and they will quickly fill up the capacity of all three runways and Heathrow will be over-stressed again. This third runway is no solution for a major city, London needs an airport with 5 or 6 runways, like every other major hub in the world.
Also Heathrow is in the middle of a village on the western edge of London and the people there don't want extra runways, extra noise and extra traffic - the new airport on the Thames estuary would have been in the middle of nowhere so loud jets taking off every 10 minutes would not harm anyone.
Happy New Year Zhi Han 😊
Y’know, in Dublin, they haven’t started construction on the metro yet.
Blindly being in favour of expanding Heathrow seems somewhat shortsighted to me. Who says airplanes will need a hub station 30 years from now? Who says airplanes will be as popular as they are now 30 years later? Can Heathrow really compete with Paris and Schiphol, whom have way more space and way less complaining neighbours? If so at what cost and is that worth it?
You are right, we should never make any advancements or expansions based on current problems because we cannot know the future, we should just stay how we are, never changing.
Can they legally just bulldoze an entire village? Surly that goes against every rule of private property?
Forced purchase above market rate and I think you get assistance finding a new property too
@@5INC33 That just sounds so
authoritarian. Is that legal in the UK?
Banishment to geographically incorrect meme's!
*ususes comrade
Toycat trying to say an Irish word is so funny
Personally, I'm somewhat interested to see how HS2 will turn out. Having 250mph trains across Britain is quite an exciting prospect - although upgrading existing lines would also be welcome.
Making existing lines faster would just destroy regional commuter and freight capacity existing lines need more rails for cut offs, better junctions and stations not idiotic speed limit increases.
@@thomasgray4188 Which is what I've come to find out over the last four years. Now, I look back at this comment, remember when I thought it was all about speed, and cringe.
well isnt frankfurt not only 4th biggest? schipol is bigger or not? (passengers per year). maybe when the new terminal is finished it will be 3rd biggest.
Why did we ever let the EU touch the internet...
so they can make article 11 & 13
have you read it? it isnt baning memes or other stuff. but i am also against it.
@@Ginkoman2 no its just the companys will have to pay to allow them on. Why would they pay for them, they wont and they will just remove them essentially pricing out of existence
It depends on the member state implementation of the law.
Ginkoman definitely hasn't read it lol... article 13 is so vague nothing will probably happen because of it and it doesn't ban anything.
And "Grand Paris Express" project ?
I love your videos so much but could you try speaking slightly slower? Would be better to listen to!
idk i even can understand on 1.5x speed
Or say less. You do waffle. Could easily cut out 50% of the twaddle. A script might help.
weird. i was thinking to listen at 2x to get through faster...
He's a kid. He's afraid of being boring if he talks at normal speed. Kid's stuff
I can hear 2x speed
this bridge in Croatia is actually built now and its awesome to drive there!
Bosnia, is an EU. candidate country, and when they are accepted, the Croatia bridge will be redundant....
David Webb still easy let’s say you live in that island and now you have access to your own country without having to go through another it just makes people feel better and if they like a town or restaurant in Croatia they can just be through Croatia but either way Bosnia isn’t joining anytime soon
@@anotheraccount2052 Fair point I guess, about access to the island. Bosnia is in the next wave of EU entrants.
yeah, I'm sure it will still serve a purpose afterwards
Afterwards its only purpose will be for the Chinese to get their money back with interest, or reqire political favors.
David Webb doesn’t mean it could work I’m Montenegrin and we’re the next wave for the EU but we’ll have to see I hope it works but I don’t know...
If you are talking about large airport projects in Europe don't you think the new Istanbul airport is a bigger project than a new addition to Heathrow? It's being built in the European part of Istanbul and will be the largest in Europe. You should have done a better research before uploading this video.
Croatia is part of EU but not of Schengen area.
But will soon be part of Schengen.
i love that people don't realise their ticket prices are going up and up because of the lack of runways
So you should make a video about the whole Hungarian Situation might we see a Hungexit?
Or a video about the most likely (insert country here)-exits in the nearish future - Hungary definitely up there, but Italy and a couple others are getting close. Maybe show how the map of the EU could look like in 30 years when some countries have left and some joined. Also accidental leaving like if Catalonia or Scotland go independent and so leave the EU at least "technically".
I think those other potential leaving countries are watching the UK now to see how it goes. The likely mess it'll be (due to terrible leaders and negotiators on both sides IMHO) could set back their leaving, but it'll probably happen someday anyway - it's just when.
I am Hungarian. Hungary is not leaving the EU, because it would be a stupid move for us. Orban is just an opportunistic, populist criminal not a moron like Farage.
I am a hungarian too... We want to remain in the eu but we have this dicator like person ( Orban Viktor) and his criminal party called Fidesz.
@ThatCrazy Drunk I know he seems cool to other countries but please learn more about Hungary and how it works nowadays. I live here.
mrcreepercraft48 Far more likely to be kicked out or at least lose their voting rights. However, it still is unlikely considering that more than 20-21 of the countries must agree.
The worst part about the airport deal is; It would only be even worse in terms of pollution if there's no direct flight. People would be using more flights/transports to get to the same place, which in the end just pollutes far more than a direct route.
Between Sicily and mainland Italy the trains also go on a boat
Schiphol might have 5 runways, but they are placed very inconviniently so only two at a time can be used.
Very interesting video, well researched with a great maps and visual aids! (At least the part I watched, I'm assuming it maintains throughout.)
Now I don't mean to be a downer, but I couldn't finish it. I hope that you can take some constructive criticism without being offended or getting upset because I genuinely like you and think you've got great potential.
SLOW down! Speak clearly and enunciate carefully. Finish all of the words and sentences you begin or edit them out entirely. It may take a bit of practice and getting used to for you to slow down and maintain a reasonable, steady rate and rhythm of speech. You will actually find that you can be more creative and expressive by relaxing to a much less frenetic pace.
You could even speed yourself back up again digitally if you really felt the need, but at least everything would have been pronounced carefully without words and phrases being cut short.
Anyway, that's just my two cents worth that I think has the potential to significantly increase and improve the quality of your videos and your views…
Cheers!
I totally agree. He speaks way too fast and I, as a native English speaker, have difficulty in understanding what he says. If you read the comments on his many other subjects he has posted you will see the same comments time and time again. I think he is too egoistic to change. He is often inaccurate so people, don't believe everything that he says. As an aside his map of all countries does not show South Africa as having an underground railway but it has. three lines serving Pretoria, Rhodes Field and O.R. Tambo airport from central Johannesburg and Sandton. Some do run above ground but are not part of the national rail network.
Whats the biggest country in ireland and the uk?
Dublin is way smaller than most of the big cities in the UK. I live here.
The Pelješac bridge is scheduled to be completed within 3 years, not 10. Construction started on August 1st 2018.
The UK really needs to build a new gateway airport because Heathrow has had it now. We always underestimate what we will need in the future.
Heathrow should have been built with more runways a long time ago. Maybe it will get a third eventually but it still doesn't solve the problem. There are a lot of homes and built up areas around the airport now so expansion is not as easy with all the planning regulations etc. And it is never ideal to force people to move at the barrel of a gun using State force.
I always thought that the better options for expansion in London was Gatwick, not Heathrow. There seems to still be more room to expand down there and build additional runways.
The building of more runways and these expansions though I believe are only a temporary stop-gap solution and will also soon reach capacity.
A new gateway airport is really needed for London if it wants to remain relevant and compete with the likes if Amsterdam Schipol going forward and probably needs to be built somewhere in the East-South-East of the Capital.
Another example of our poor future planning is the M62. It should have been built with six lanes in either direction but they decided on three instead. They had to expand that to four in places and even use the hard shoulder to relieve congestion and have managed motorways on sections now. It is a congested mess. Still it was a great project and I like that one stubborn Yorkshire Farmer wouldn't move for it.
You forgot to mention the project in Europe to link up Ukraine with Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia by rail. I'm not sure why it is not going on to Estonia?
Will we see something to connect Malta with Sicily and Italy?
Would love to know your thoughts on HS2. Is it a waste of taxpayers money? Why didn't they fully privatise the current network? All the problems seem to be with the government-owned part namely Railtrack?
I always thought the best bet for expansion was to allow both airports to expand, so we have actual competition for the hub status, and capacity for more than 10-15 years worth of flight increases.
Malta is sadly not enough of an economic region to get its own bridge yet, I don't think. I'd love to see some better link from Europe to the outer islands, but I don't think it's gonna be possible for a while.
Also, HS2 to me is an expensive project but I don't think necessarily a waste of tax payers money. I think we should've had a more ambitious route than London to Manchester, but I'm not against the idea for cost reasons - I think this is the sort of project that can make its money back if it's successful.
Honestly I'm pro private rail, but I think rail track taught us that government owned tracks are important. I think they should be using their status as -the government- to encourage more competition on the tracks though, as opposed to single franchises that sometimes overlap, every major section of track should have 2+ operators
Maybe a high-speed train link to that ghost airport in Ciudad Real in Spain, which has never been used, would be a viable solution.
More runways at an airport doesn't necessarily mean more capacity as there are some factors playing a role here.
One of them is the wind direction. At Heathrow, winds mostly go from west to east, hence 2 runways from east to west.
At Amsterdam (number 3, not 4) you'll find 6 runways indeed, but are in tangential layout instead of parallel like Heathrow. This is because winds are much less predictable in this area and other wind directions are served as well.
Imagine what we could do if we were United States of Europe!
*pukes*
@@correctionguy7632 sigh...another idiot
Pretty bad likely civil war against any nationalists
@@annoyingguyoninternet1631 most like a war against your brain because it's unbelievable stupid
Don't go there, just, please, don't go there
Hey Toycat, could you maybe do a video about how the channel tunnel is going to work after brexit?
I have a very stupid idea for expanding heathrow airport. Instead of building the second runway at heathrow, build it at gatwick, then have a train going between the secure area of the airports, so you can have a connecting flight that arrives at gatwick but departs from heathrow. Again, i know it's a stupid idea.
it's not really, but then, a whole train, probably having to run underground, would probably be overkill
Joining the two with a high speed train ain't a bad idea, but an expensive and faroff one of course. The real problem is that Gatwick, with only 1 runway and still being a huge airport, is also at capacity and can't take much more flights. Gatwick needs a 2nd runway as well as Heathrow needing a 3rd, it'd be less awkward to build one at Gatwick though.
There is a proposal for a new High Speed Line, called HS4Air connecting Heathrow and Gatwick, and will also extend to Ashford to connect with High Speed 1 and the Channel Tunnel, and to Old Oak Common in London to connect with the under-construction High Speed 2 towards Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, so potentially there could be direct services between cities north of London and the rest of Europe, as well as a high speed airport shuttle service on the same line which would better justify the cost
7:30 can´t you undestand than rather then linking Germany with Denmark, that tunnel project is actually linking Central Europe with Sweden?
Yes .. i will mention your knowledge on Ireland.
Historically poor for centuries due to british rule. Not because we just couldnt sort or country out.
We arent just well off due to foreign coroporations, we have created alot of our own wealth and followed EU plans carefully.
Ireland is a very wealthy country. We are ahead of the UK on living standards and most of the US.
Only countires ahead of us are the nordics, germany, netherlands, austria, canada and new zealand.
But dublin is a mess of infrastructre. By 2030 we should have that fixed. But do remember dublin was a mess until we got wealthy in the 90s.
Ireland will have 10 million people by 2050, dublin 3.5 million. Making it one of europes most important cities. Ireland has a very bright future, even brexit will benefit us as the last anglo country in the EU.
Shane Hughes Manchester will have like 5 million by 2050 and is building its economy without the EU in mind meaning that it won’t be hugely effected by brexit. Dublin will the very wealthy but Manchester will be a powerhouse and will be comparable to somewhere like Munich, Rome and Barcelona
a powerhouse? pull the other one.
as far as i know Ireland have more GDP per capita than Germany / Austria and even netherlands?
Jinx d5 yes Ireland has High GDP per Capita.
18:40
Toycat: *Babbles about airports*
Me: HOLY SHIT IS THAT A STACK INTERCHANGE
In Sweden we just had an election last Sunday. Environment and airplane politics were one of the most important issues here. Last 4 years Sweden was ruled by the Social Democrats and Greens and during that time they passed a law to put taxes on all flights in Sweden both domestic and international. This made ticket prices go up and we had direct flights to some destinations in USA stop completely. You can't find a direct flight in Sweden to the USA at a reasonable price anymore and now the airline companies have announced they will look to close even more flights in Sweden and instead open them up in Köpenhamn and Oslo. This is hurting the economy alot. The Green party are not helping the environment, they are just moving the problem to Denmark and Norway!
The Centre party and the Alliance block wants to remove these taxes and pass a law to force airline companies to mix in a small percent of biofuel in the airplanes fuel. I think this is a much better approach than the high taxes that the Green party wants, because this will actually reduce pollution and grow the economy at the same time. As you know Sweden is big country to the size but not so many people live here. We have a huge forest industry and it's one of our biggest exports. We have plenty of forest to make more biofuel. At the same time we won't be as dependent on Russia and Saudi Arabia for oil imports.
The greens also want to close the nearest airport to Stockholm, building housing there...
Fuel is anyway bad! Flying is bad same as big container ships! These two things are way worse than fuel cars! So there need to be strictlier laws for ships too! And flying only when necessary. And btw. There are no reasonable flight prices to the US anywhere! And direct flights are in 99% of cases more expensive.
fjellyo32 Shipping is pply the best way to transport gods cheaply in both costs and fuel, and planes might run on used frying oil from mcd and such
tiglath pileser Actually we are trying to make methanol from scrap wood
@tiglath pileser about 100 years and that's no problem here. Most our forests are more like treefarms anyway
On what metric is Dublin 'bigger' than Birmingham/Manchester?
How much cola did you snort lol, slow it down m8
7:20 "Assuming Germany doesn't germany again …" Let's also hope Britain won't try to empire again.
I think that's a fair comment, a funny one too :P
that comment had me dieing.
If ppl cant understand, 0.75 speed
what environmental damage it's in the middle of the biggest city in Europe
love your coverage of Ireland, its really hard to do fair and unbiased discussion on it and I think I can speak from everyone here that we love you man