The Biggest Megaprojects Never Finished

Do you know of similar failed projects in your country? 👇

The China ghost city is such an excellent movie set. They should turn it into a theme park, maybe zombie based.

The biggest megaproject never finished is the cleaning of my room

Whenever I'm sad that I wasted $3 on a McDonalds Large fries... I'll just watch this video again and again to make myself feel better. Lol

That building in Los santos.. it never gets finished...

North Korea: let’s build the worlds tallest hotel! Guinness World Records Book: tallest unoccupied building. Got it!

My pups started digging a hole in the middle of my lawn. They were most upset when I told them they had no planning approval for the project.

Alternate Title: The Largest Embezzlement Schemes Ever!

In the early 1900's there was a Dutch plan to completely dry up the Zuiderzee (southern sea). About 1/3 was eventually turned in to land. I think one of the main reasons not to finish it completely was the impact on the environment. Still it enlarged our tiny country quite a bit.

The London Garden Bridge takes the cake for "most environmentally friendly" project fail, because no concrete was ever poured, though reportedly a few Maseratis for architects and consultants were earned and blur the picture somewhat...

The Katar project seems to be the only one, that maybe makes sense in terms of "makes peoples daily life easier". The other projects just push someones egos further.

They should add the "high-speed train" project in Amman, Jordan. Initially planned to be a trainline, then a dedicated bus lane, now its no more than a walking path in the middle of the busiest road in the capital.

Just watched three of these mega project clips.. Extremely interesting and EXCELLENT to listen to somebody who actually knows what he is talking about and can speak quite well..

I´m from Brazil and there is a project that is still abandoned, the Acaquarium, located in the city of Fortaleza and was to be the 3rd largest aquarium in the world

With that first one, in China, being so close to completion, it's hard to imagine why the government didn't either take it over themselves, or find another contractor to finish it. Especially 700 units already having been sold. There are so many empty buildings over there, both completed, or close to it, it's crazy. Certainly when you consider how many of it's citizens live in tiny, ageing shanty towns, often with no proper plumbing.

I wish someone would build a small city where the transportation routes were theme park rides. Taking a rollercoaster bus to work would be so much more fun

Cape Town has a unfinished Freeway Bridge that has been standing ending in midair since 1977. There are a number of urban legends about its state. One involves a shopkeeper who refused to sell his property.

It's really a shame they're going to leave a nearly 600m tower unfinished

Superconducting Super Collider, to be 87.1 km in diameter. The SPEAR ring was being completed and scientists, designers, and contractors were at first concerened at Texas for a location but astounded when the University of Texas would be directing and designing the project. Many Universities have proposed and have run experiments at Stanford's SLAC facility. One from the University of Tokyo was finishing up at the SSRL portion of the facility at the time. Asking around, no one remembered anything from Texas and it was unknown if the new Director (Roy Schwitters) had even toured the facilities. They did buy land, dig, and get in all the concrete (Texas has many good contractors for excavations, re-bar work, and concrete). Then everything faltered. Money was being burned up as people seemed to be learning scratch as they went along, seeming not even curious about the two rings in California. The Government Oversite group seemed unimpressed as there seemed little accounting and not much of a developed plan for having completed and installed hardware. You know, that syncrotron ring bit to be housed inside the hollow underground concrete donut they built. Plug got pulled.

Imagine having to take a 20-30 minute elevator ride to get to your room 😂😭.