Inside Europe’s $7BN Megaproject

Fred Mills journeys inside one of Europe's most impressive (and lesser known) megaprojects.

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Additional footage and images courtesy of Lantis, ATV, European Commission, Raja Imran Khan, Roger Price / CC BY-NV-SA 2.0 DEED, Sony, Wwuyts / CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED and XKP Visual Engineers.

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0:00 Intro
1:24 Antwerp's Traffic
2:36 The Oosterweel Link
3:38 Masterworks
4:40 The Scheldt Tunnel
9:04 The Oosterweel Junction
9:20 The Canal Tunnels
9:50 Viaduct Demolition
10:41 The Price Tag
11:06 Route Plan 2030
11:54 The Lange Wapper
13:06 An Epic Build

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[Parakeet-pkdl]

I was born, raised, lived and worked in Antwerp for my entire life, and I’ve have never known something else than “traffic is awful” in my city, to the point I can’t even imagine it would change someday. I’m really curious wether this whole project will work out 🙂

[rcbailey]

Find someone who looks at you the way Fred looks at prefabricated immersed tube tunnel sections.

[GamingWithJesDep]

The Joy I feel when seeing a video about anything in Belgium. And for sure on an extraordinary YouTube Channel such as this. 🇧🇪🇧🇪

[Jeroen_Mastenbroek]

I worked at the company that made the concrete molds for this tunnel (Hendriks). I didnt do that much for this project (it wasnt mine project) but I did design the stairs you see at 8:32. Quite nice to find my own work at one of my faforite youtube channels.

[Mo-kvhg]

I am from Antwerp and this is the daily reality for me . Great job covering this.

[jaypeeters]

Was born and raised in Antwerp. I work in Antwerp... and Now I am a small part of the Oosterweel through my job. Very cool to see this video. You have no idea of all the 'little' side infrastructure jobs linked to this massive project that are going on to this day.

[danieljensen]

I know €7B sounds like a lot, but here in the Northwest US, we're looking at that figure just for a single bridge. It's actually impressive the amount of public works Antwerp is getting for the price. At least from a US perspective.

[webbist]

"Nicest footage we could find" 😂

[QueenetBowie]

For the New Yorkers out there, 7 billion Euros equates to about a quarter mile of new subway track being built by the MTA, or three MTA engineering impact studies

[Parakeet-pkdl]

In addition to your excellent video: there’s not one huge park and ride, but instead a whole chain of those identical beasts built around the city, accompanied by large public transport hubs.

[sadjesse]

As an Antwerp'enaar I love how well you captured our beautiful city, well done good sir!

[TheBM]

Happy Valentine’s Day! We hope you all LOVE this video ❤😂

[dieterverschueren]

Maybe interesting to mention, the big hole they dug to build the tunnel elements will later serve as a shipping dock. That's why you could see those rubbers hanging from that 1 concrete side

[gardengeek]

Always admire how Europe preserves the best of the old in its cities, but still embraces ultra modern, all-inclusive transportation ideas. Imagine the reaction if transportation experts in North America had proposed bicycle lanes of this type.

[uranus]

It's a fantastic project indeed, thank you for covering this! I'm glad it's being built, hower I have three concerns.
1. It's very car centric. In the long term, more lanes will make it worse for traffic. And the port of Antwerp will increase its trucks untill traffic is deadlock again, I'm afaird.
2. Projects like these work IF there are substantial investments in public transport. Our governments have failed to delivered on this one.
3. P+Rs are great IF people use public transport. Most of them remain empty. The city keeps building underground parkings which keeps incentivizing car journeys.

[enigmadrath]

We live in the Netherlands but have family in France. Since one of my aunt's recently been in poor health my mom makes the four hour drive down to her in France once a month and she has to drive via/around Antwerp and EVERY TIME she finds herself stuck in traffic, no matter what time of the day or night she travels 😅

[RoelfvanderMerwe]

The seamless transition into that Masterworks ad deserves an Oscar😂

[AsmirSut]

Before watching I was 100% sure this was going to be about the tunnel between Germany and Denmark

[Yxalitis]

"Belgium Waffle " very nice!

[giokanaan]

Surprised they're building so much new road infrastructure and tunneling with no added rail, I would've imagined cargo trains might be a big focus.