Useless Megaprojects That Wasted Billions

Useless Megaprojects That Wasted Billions #Shorts

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[pwokus]

Fun Fact: Adjusted for inflation, the Hawaiian H3 highway cost $136 million per mile (15 miles)

[criiiaboutit]

this guy: "less than 500 people live there"
also that guy: *proceeds to show the more than 500 sign*

[HiSteOfMnd]

I call BS on the Interstate H3 Freeway on Oahu when he said, “almost no one drives on it”. It’s a major highway that’s being used 24/7. I live on Oahu and it’s 1 of 2 major highways that you can take to downtown Honolulu if you live Kaneohe/Kailua side of the island. Plus it’s an alternative route if they close off Pali Highway. And if you didn’t already know it’s direct route from Kaneohe Marine Corp Base HI to Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam for rapid deployment. And I’m hoping you already know why it has the “Interstate”marked on it. Educate yourself before you come up with this BS stuff.

[coolwei]

The Malaysia project was build for China citizens to buy not average Malaysian. The price is high af. And half of the project money come from China. It basically Johor trying to get foreign investment.

[markrowland]

China's stupendous high speed train system. Made for millions of people but as with the German pre-war Autobarn and the USA's interstate highway system, it was built for the millitery.

[plowee]

Not a megaproject but a waste of taxes and rent for sure, it's the HS2 (high speed 2) which is a railway system in the UK which cuts off around 15 mins of your journey and makes you pay almost twice the amount of normal trains...

[daijahimanil]

Ok bro love what you’re doing, but hear me out the H-3 is used very frequently, but due to weather and “construction” it is closed down constantly leaving 5 hour traffic on the island. The most current wasted project on Oahu, HI is what we locals call “the rail” now at $12.45 billion and estimated date is 11 years late (March 2031)🙂

[dreadernightkiller]

Ok, if you create a city then realize it's too expensive for people to live there, just drop the price. You won't make your money back but at least you achieved the main goal. Plus, uninhabited buildings age way faster than ones being used.

[princiakhin]

One thing tho, Naypyitaw was never built for the people of Myanmar. If that's the case, why would they build it in secret? They (the leaders of the military) built it for themselves so that they could live a lavish life in the capital.

[danielhendley]

If tax dollars paid for it it should be low income units. Must be greedy investors

[garymathena]

When I was stationed on Oahu, H3 had already been proposed, but, it was going through sacred land. I sad to hear it was done. Oahu is too over developed.

[phillipjarman]

🔵👄🔵*Useless mega projects that wasted billions of dollars *🔵👄🔵

[stardream]

I can't believe 1city cost 4 billions dollars!!!😳😳😳

[mrgoodnigth]

Napidaw ( capital of myanmar) ain't no city that a private property of military junta

[UsuallyMad]

Me hears useless megaprojects that wasted billions: hey thats me

[bobfg]

Forest City was supposed to be for Chinese upper middle class. It was essentially a vacation destination. Thing is the Chinese government limited the amount Chinese can spend outside of China. It was a gamble that didn't pay off.

As for Naypyidaw, that city has restricted access. Only government workers and personnel needed for emergency services (medics, nurses, technicians, firemen, policemen, etc.) or maintenance are allowed to stay there. You can't buy a home there if you don't work for the government. It's not useless. It's just very specific.

As for the H-3 Interstate, like others posted, it's actually in use. Many locals use it. It also has a national security purpose: it connects a Marine Corps base in Hawaii to the US Navy port in Pearl Harbour. That in itself makes it useful.

[ericgentzke]

I’m willing to bet that the primary use of the highway is efficient evacuation from lava glows which can be sudden and very destructive but that the real primary use is to move military around the island in a crisis which is the actual main point of all us highways at least originally, above transport of goods. Sometimes what helps traffic is only a second lane which can end up being very expensive on these causeway type roads but allows for the full movement of traffic as opposed to being stuck beind a semi truck on what’s worse a winding mountain road. As a whole, i70 in colorado doesn’t really take you anywhere important and 90 is much easier to traverse but it’s there nonetheless and basically only allows peoplr to travel from anywhere on i70 to utah unless it’s actually better to take 90 which is the case from Chicago or New York. So the 70 corridor in the Rockies which was astronomical in price even compared to this Hawaii road really only gets people from Virginia through to Utah

[DAN-rktv]

For now this project is pretty useless, but who can guarantee the future?

[ax-]

Forest City was just planned and built in the wrong time I guess. Back then, we were not doing well in financial, now it just changed

[pepitocoronejo]

They kicked the Chinese out of Malaysia.