Most Useless Megaprojects In The World

countries around the world have pumped millions and even billions of dollars into huge construction projects that make our lives better but some Mega projects should have been thrown in the garbage at the planning stage so grab a hard hat and a highz jacket we've got Mega projects Mega prospects and something a little uh uh unstable to look at ouch all right it's time to check out the most useless Mega projects in the world [Music] Road to Nowhere Hawaii is a beautiful place it's got beaches grass skirts coconut bras oh and this super expensive blight on the landscape the H3 interstate now I know what you're thinking Interstate Hawaii that's one big Highway well here's the thing it doesn't connect to any other state the name just means it's funded by the federal government so rather than spanning 2500 miles to the nearest State California it spans just 15 from Northwest of downtown Honolulu to the Marine Corps Base Hawaii oh even so it still cost a colossal $1. 3 billion to build or $80 million a mile jeez well back in 1960 when the road was first authorized people weren't happy Not only was it set to level a vast number of trees but there were also sacred temples and ferary mounds in the area that were super significant to native Hawaiians and because of this people protested hard but Constructors eventually got legal authorization anyway and in 1989 they started building seven contractors and 8 years later it finally opened in 1997 so despite H3 taking 37 years and blowing the budget by a shocking amount Are Hawaiians happy not at all construction destroyed many of the Sacred sites throughout the Valley now lots of people won't drive anywhere near the road for fear of being cursed by the dead so it's hardly even used now if you were thinking of taking a smooth cruise through the Hawaiian Countryside then best be checking your back seat before you set off that's a real Highway to Hell damn burst ERS man all this talking can be thirsty work sometimes I wish I had a giant Reservoir to serve all my hydration needs well the city of Los Angeles faced the same problem in the 1900s though it wasn't because they all talk too much they needed a reliable water reserve for the growing needs of the city so they hired self-taught civil engineer William Mulholland to set about designing and building the largest art Arch supported dam in the world construction started in 1924 and was finished suspiciously quickly in 1926 located in San Francisco Canyon about 40 Mi outside of downtown LA the completed St Francis dam was over 700 ft long and 185 ft tall big enough to hold more than 12 billion gallons of water that's over 18,000 Olympic swimming pools however as it began to fill the cracks in self-taught moland's experience started showing very literally several leaks began appearing which the engineer dismissed as totally normal but in reality the foundations of the dam were woefully unsuitable for supporting such a huge weight of water on March 12th 1928 only 5 days after the reservoir reached Max Capacity the giant concrete wall collapsed sending all 12 billion gallons of water hurtling towards the Pacific Ocean after just 5 minutes the 120t wave had violently kened 1 and 1/2 miles from the collapsed wall destroying everything in its path it went down as one of the worst engineering catastrophes in US history destroying 1,000 homes and leaving at least 431 people sleeping with the fishes although he was relieved of any wrongdoing mhal never worked again all I can say is damn ceased City man I didn't sleep too good last night my neighbor was jumping up and down on their bed for hours if only I lived somewhere quiet alone and all by myself actually I think I know just the place Shang Yun International project is a 1,800 acre development in xiwang China and it's completely empty over the course of several years developers splashed a monstrous $3 billion on creating a new high-end residential super Community but when the Construction company's CEO was arrested in 2014 for bribing State officials the company fell into crisis and incurred billions of dollars in debts they were forced to declare bankruptcy and Xiang Yun was seized by the government leaving thousands who'd already bought properties there seriously out of pocket now the huge city is eerily empty like a ghost town and though European styled buildings and statues might look great from the outside the inside tells a different story I mean just look at this mall one company has expressed interest in taking the failed City over but it's going to take some really big bucks to save this place it's a shame if it had worked out it'd be a pretty awesome place to live I know an even more awesome place though my YouTube channel hit those like And subscribe buttons and you'll never miss one of my incredible videos again all right let's get back to it Delta Skelter I hate sitting in traffic someone needs to hurry up and invent a teleporter so I never get stuck during rush hour again well China might have made the next best thing the keyword being might have the hzmb bridge system has reduced the transportation time between three of the world's most populous cities Hong Kong xuhai and maau from 4 hours to just 30 minutes it's the longest sea Crossing in the world at over 34 M long meaning it could stretch the entire width of Los Angeles and still have bridge to spare wowzers so what's the catch well considering the whole thing cost a gargantuan $18. 8 billion you'd imagine it'd be put to good use but uh hardly anyone actually drives down it you need a Crossing permit and it's almost impossible to obtain one H weird only high-tech investors top academics politicians or philanthropists are even considered for the permits and your vehicle must be registered in all three cities even then the daily limit for applicants is only 400 that's hella stingy it seems like they're doing everything they can to stop people crossing some people reckon that because of Hong Kong's overcrowding problem they're trying to limit traffic flow into the city but if that's the case why spend 9 years and almost $1 19 billion building this thing just to stop people from using it something seems suspicious to me what do you think let me know down in the comments below quit horsing around never dreamed of having a giant statue built of you when you die MrBartholomew Eggbert amazed maker of YouTube's finest videos yeah I like the sound of that well one statue in kuster County South Dakota takes this concept to the extreme back in 1877 Native American war hero Crazy Horse led the Lakota people into battle to protect native territory from the federal government but was fatally wounded 62 years later in 1939 Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear commissioned Polish American sculptor kjac zilkowski who' previously worked on nearby Mount Rushmore to carve the hero's likeness into Thunderhead mountain with those credentials what could go wrong right well kac's original plans were for the Statue to be 641 ft long and 563 ft tall over taking the entire mountain and looking a lot like this jump to present day and uh here's what we actually got the face is the only part that's been finished and that wasn't completed until 1998 50 years after kjac started and there's been practically no progress since though kjac himself worked tirelessly to try to complete it after his passing his family took the Baton and they were less than enthusiastic despite raking in millions of dollars in donations and tourist fees from the incomplete Monument they've added very little to it even worse Thunderhead Mountain was a sacred burial ground destroying the land Crazy Horse died protecting goes against everything he stood for the Lakota people seem to have been left behind for an egotistical money-making project by the zil cowsky and that's really messed up but let me know what you think down in the comments below silent stadium with 3.

5 billion supporters around the world it's safe to say soccer is the most popular sport on Earth so in 2014 when Brazil hosted the prestigious World Cup they set about building a bunch of new stadiums to impress all the global Spectators but one Stadium left fans scratching their heads in the city of manow in the Amazon rainforest the aptly named Arena de Amazonia might be the the worst location for a giant soccer stadium ever see there's no roads from manous to the coast and that was where the building supplies were delivered so all the materials had to be shipped up the Amazon river which was a super expensive Journey then during construction the blazing hot rainforest temperatures proved too much for the grass on the pitch which turned brown and died at this event organizers took to painting it green not exactly what you'd expect from a $300 million Stadium but its post-world cup life has proven even more miserable see the most successful team in manau National are all the way down in the fifth tier of Brazilian soccer so whilst they have taken the stadium as their own audience attendance rarely hits over 3,000 a tiny fraction of the 44,00 total capacity they literally have no no fans you've got no fans aside from the occasional Christian concert held there the place remains pretty empty and sadly I think even the big man upstairs would say it's a complete waste Mech you wonder the robotics race has really ramped up in recent years we've had The Good The Bad and The downright weird but this giant Gundam suit in Yokohama Japan might be one of the most ridiculous of them all based on the rx782 mech suit from the popular Gundam anime series this tocale model is a tremendous 59 ft tall now I'm not saying get in a 25ton robot the size of three giraffes to move is an easy feat however I wouldn't rely on this Gundam to protect Earth from any alien invasions like the ones from the show aside from taking a few short steps forward forward and bending down on one knee like a sluggish Grandma it doesn't really do a lot it's just a big shiny tourist attraction so if you're not that into Gundam it does seem pretty pointless whilst the official price hasn't been revealed a similar size statue in Tokyo cost around $100,000 but that can only move its head whereas the Yokohama Gundam can move its entire body and that means a much bigger price tag I don't know it's not really doing it for me but hey the fans seem happy so who am I to judge you're going to pay whether you love or hate ex-president Donald Trump there's no denying that one particular policy from back in his initial 2016 election didn't exactly turn out as he'd promised you know reinforcing the border wall between the US and Mexico the new wall was supposed to be made of one ,000 Mi of big beautiful concrete and Mexico was going to cover the whopping 8 to 12 billion invoice well it's not exactly gone to plan so far the border wall is only 450 Mi long less than half of what was promised and only 47 Mi of that is actually new the rest of it is just the previous wall bolstered with steel Bullards which as you can see isn't that great at keeping people out man he didn't even break a sweat but if you're not the best climber hey don't worry there's some nice low parts that you can just hop right over off she goes into the land of the free some of the new parts were made so badly you just need to wait until they fall over J so far this ludicrous project has cost an outrageous $15 billion that's almost 320 million per new mile built plus some estimates say the yearly maintenance costs could be up to $28 billion and as for Mexico fronting the bill well they haven't coughed up a dime it's all been covered by the taxpayers man sounds like the time my date ordered $150 steak then realized that she'd left her purse so I had to pay ha oh she's so silly Hour of Power if I'm procrastinating I do 15 minutes of work Max before I get bored but I've got nothing on the failures of mju nuclear power station in Japan's Fuki prefecture since getting the go-ahead in 1983 it's only produced One measly Hour of Power one hour in several decades I take longer to wake up every morning mju is a prototype fast breeder reactor by jiggling the reaction process the creators had hoped the plant would recycle used nuclear fuel to create even more energy making production way more efficient which sounds great on paper except it turned out to be anything but efficient major faults were discovered in 14,000 individual components some controlling critical safety features of the station yikes in 1995 a fire broke out which staff tried to hide by editing the security footage double yikes and in 2010 a 3. 3 ton refueling machine fell into the reactor vessel and got so busted up it wouldn't fit back through the top man what a comedy of errors yet somehow the plant limped on in 2011 though nuclear disaster struck Fukushima when a tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power station and caused a radiation leak after that public opinion turned firmly against nuclear power especially mju which by that point had devoured almost 122 billion of government spending with nothing show for it 5 years later in 2016 it was closed for Good and authorized for deconstruction but uh guess what that's going to take until 2047 and cost another $3.