Some of the World's Most Useless Megaprojects

The Line's creator must have been inspired by a white line he saw on the desk before it got snorted

The Line is what happens when an out of touch with reality wealthy person is surrounded by people who are too scared to say “NO”!!!

As a german who travels on a regular basis with trains, I can say that the trains here in Germany can do literally anything. But being on time is unfortunately not one of those things.

"A city halfway between nowhere and nowhere else" Beautiful.

They should turn those ghost cities into massive paintball ranges with 500 players each team

BER is just hillarious... From Indoor Lights on 300.000 square meters they could not turn off due to a missing Light control system to the fact that they had to open and close all water Taps and Windows once a day, to prevent mold or that they simply forgot the power lines for automatic doors... They even hat an empty train driving though the train station every Day to create some air to avoid rust and mold. You could do a 1 hour video about BER alone and couldn´t cover everything that went wrong..

Nice to see the line being called out. It's amazing how many channels still talk about it as if it's a viable thing that totally might happen.

Biggest problem with cities like the line is that the people who decide for it to be built have never actually used public transit or habe any idea of what works and what doesn't. Therefore when city planners show their plans in the planning competition, often the one with the simplest explanations and flashiest graphics gets the job.

Having lived in Saudi Arabia the notion that 'access to the sun' is a priority is astonishing, most of the year you really want shade.

Another problem with the Line is that in the desert, one side would gradually accumulate sand dunes. They might be able to get around it by having gaps in the lower levels every so often but even then, there would be huge effort needed to get the sand from one side to the other, or to move it elsewhere.

As someone born and raised in Berlin, the second I heard it's a mega project I started smiling, knowing it's the BER. A family friend once was part of the execution of the plans. Well one of the many I should say. He revealed to us that one of the reasons for the overly huge budget and the lack of understanding what the Frick was going on was the fact, that most small companies that worked on the project had to give up midway, meaning Berlin would get the next company to continue the job, they quit shortly after too, new company in and so and so forth for almost every department of plan execution. Imagine a soup cooked by a chef, but so far the chef only got to cut a carrot. The next chef comes in, sees "cut the carrots" and continues that. Easy at the beginning. But once you get to the end of cutting carrots, another chef decides to cut another veggie. In the end you get a bunch of random cut stuff, mixed together, more chefs come and go and throw in stuff without ever tasting it. While in the process those guys get to redo this whole process multiple times. And now consider this just to be for example the guys that do pipework for water. In the end you got companies with like 5 workers, supposed to be laying wires for an entire Airport. Impossible task, so they hired different companies for the same task, that might not use the same techniques. And in the end you get that suprise menu that includes a bowl of soup and 400 other dishes, all together called BER🤣

The Line project is the fever dream of someone who never heard "No" in his entire life. Someone who is used that if he throws enough money at something, it will get done. The whole NEOM project is getting out of hand. They're planing a NEOm airport too, last I heard, different sub-projects that are as much a fever dream as The Line. Just the briefs from the contractor regarding any NEOM project is like reading a fairy tale that an overly rich person wants to build in reality. It's not just the wildlife that is getting a bad hand in this, there are also at least one tribe that live there and were forcefully relocated, isn't'it? I believe some of the more fierce tribespeople who opposed the relocation were even executed. It's pure dystopia at this point.

One of the root causes of the German BER disaster was that the mayor of Berlin at the time (whose specialty was mostly celebrating parties) decided to build the airport without a general contractor. It was the Dunning-Kruger effect in full swing. The guy had no idea how to construct an airport (or how to do anything else for that matter) and therefore figured it can't be too difficult and that it would save a few million in profits that a general contractor to organise the thousands of sub-contractors otherwise would charge…

Concerning the BER Airport: it isn’t exactly useless as Berlin and the region has no other airport anymore as Tempelhof, Tegel and the old airport in Schönefeld were closed because of it. They all were too old and Tempelhof and Tegel were located inside the city which isn’t really were you want an airport nowadays. The decision for the BER to be built at this location was mainly because politicians wanting it so but also because there was already an airport in the direct vicinity and all other locations were far more remote. But if I as a Berlin citizen can tell you one thing: the BER was just nerve wracking as there were times in which every single week new stories emerged what they had found now to be not working. Many people really didn’t believe that it would open one day. But it did and is now working quite good. It is however way too big but at the same time too small for the passenger numbers because of some of the reasons you mentioned. Oh and by the way: German trains are on time? 😂 I’m sorry, but not even 70% of our Intercity and Intercity Express trains were on time last year. And on time is by definition less than 6 minutes too late. So, punctual German trains is really just a myth anymore.

Walking through "Ghost" developments is one of the more unique experiences I've had. Everyone I visited them with experienced them differently. They look great from the street. But not until you're inside the empty lanes do you get the real scope. One near my village a person had the brilliant idea of planting sunflowers in the common open spaces, so that people visited for sunny photo ops...and a genuine sense of dystopian melancholy.

I love the way ‘clever’ planners say we should live in cities of their design and be very grateful - but people like me who perhaps are not as clever want to live in real places with hearts and souls, not concrete edifices to celebrate someone’s ‘genius’

First trip into the Whistlerverse today. The Lizard Overlords are pleased. Allegedly.

The Line will revolutionize making any two points in a city as far apart as possible!

I'm not surprised that no one has moved to these ghost cities. A friend who from Cambodia and is of Chinese descent asked why I had moved the country. She said "only poor people live in the country". So I think that mind set would be a problem added to all those you spoke of.

Just imagine arriving at the airport of Line City... - What's this line on that billboard over there? - It's the map.