$360M Wasted on China’s ‘Most Advanced’ Tram, Dismantled Under 3 Years, Derailed in 3 Days 

WTF?? We have low floor trams in Europe for decades. So high-tech china isn‘t even capable of mastering mature tech … 🙈

So the Italians did a reverse belt and road. Love it.

Imported the tram, from Italy, to serve a real estate development, ( ghost city?) and couldn't afford the imported parts , to keep it running...

For a country where washing vegetables in a squat toilet is normal, I'm not surprised

Advanced tofu is still tofu

At least it happened in THREE DAYS Unlike you know a bridge that has been there for a year or three and then suddenly breaks apart. "Worlds most advanced tram." It is a tram... that technology has been around a looong time.

Imagine making other countries lose 100b usd on a ghost town

Trams or streetcars have been successuly operating in Western cities for over 200 years, with electrified trams been developed in Germany since 1881. This is not new mass transit technology. The vehicles are called a tram car. They are good in medium to high density locations. They share lanes with road traffic, and have cheaper and lower platforms than trains.

What can you say. It's made in China. 🤣🤣🤣

Thats about right..tofu dregging

There are so many such useless and uneconomic projects operating throughout / in PRChina, from High-Speed Railway(HSR) lines to unused HSR Stations, to 4-lanes highways and incredible tall bridges across mountainous ravines etc. etc. connecting to remotest villages of PRchina's interiors, which even most ordinary Chinese Citizens do not even know such villages' names nor their existence, of just few thousands inhabitants, would all require & be eventually abandoned or dismantled, as cost of maintenance and keeping operation become overwhelmingly unaffordable for the provinces. Technically, these written - offs are all "sunk cost" .. and it is right / correct and the most optimal financial decision to made.

The fast train built by China in Indonesia (Bandung - Jakarta) also over budget

Am I the only one who thinks that financing local governments through land sales is bonkers?

They can’t even draw maps properly.

Probably sourced the parts on Temu

Every project government plans and constructs is overpriced, poorly built and maintained and inefficient.

Great reporting, thanks.

Taxpayers money wasted😂😂

"A single, short line; not networked with other lines." - Yeah, that *might* be an issue in the long run. Jeeez. 🙈

A tram route roughly the same length was completed in 4 years in my home city in Finland. Actual plans and voting for the city project took 10 years but construction was actually completed slightly ahead of time, from 2017 to 2021. Been running for 3 years now and taking a lot of congestion from local bus transits away. Also cleared up a lot of confusing traffic from the city centre. So a very similar tram story to this one, except it was a complete success. Only major stop for the tram was once this year in November when a freak blizzard stuffed the tracks full of snow and had to be cleared up.

Tofu Tram

Italy is famous in manufacturing the best cars in the world with a minor issue namely they only last three years.

I wouldnt be surprised if there wasd some bribery of officials involved in the construction of this specific tram line resulting in a shoddy construction work. Also it might be that the feasibility studies werent really done properly resulting in a tram line that didnt draw passengers in. This is a problem in any state that has a one party system since the only way to control this stuff is from inside the party itself. This makes it hard to root bribery out if only the high ranking party members can change things since they might be involved themselves in schemes like these.

Spend money on rice farming not industry 🇨🇳

Meanwhile Taiwan is thriving and happy. You don't hear anything about Taiwan being so horrible. Taiwan is a perfect example of what a country should be like. Taiwan is a wonderful country...

China trying to copysocialist Europe soo hard😂.. only europe runs trams efficiently

Mad in China quality

So China buys the trams from Italy and they have electrical problems, haha. No way.

Great!!🇺🇲

All of these problems are essentially duplicated in every US light rail project: low ridership, seriously excessive construction costs and delays, poor interconnection, poor route selection losing money hand over fist, taking up valuable traffic lanes, etc.

Tofu Dreg Waste Advanced’ Tram🤣🤣🤣🤣

This tram project and its waste of money, corruption, and poor planning is very reminiscent of "The Big Dig" in Boston.

By the way, 1 yuan is like 15 cents if you convert it to US currency.This is very cheap considering energy costs are not a whole lot cheaper in China.No wonder there is "red ink" on these projects.

china going back to the stone age 😂😂

The Italian company Ansaldo Breda was also involved in new high speed trains in The Netherlands/Belgium and Denmark. The trains where not up to the task, also due to the company not having the technical knowledge for producing such trains. The Danes started upgrading the trains themselves, the Dutch agreed with the supplier in a buy back, The Belgians wrote off the few bought trains.

300 million$, 3 days, 3 years. Lucky number! 😁

this man said the same thing 100 times 100 different ways...bro...can you summarize your shit???

I always wonder what their high-speed rail system will look like in twenty years. HST isn’t very forgiving of lax maintenance.

It's mindboggling to me how a company like Ansaldo-Breda can continue to operate anywhere, given their history. Perhaps I'm just being prejudiced because I'm danish, and have a clear recollection of Ansaldo-Breda wasting billions of our taxpayer money on shoddy trains that never even rolled one meter on danish tracks.

blaming the tram's failure on poor italian workmanship or faulty italian engineering is exactly what can be expected from china.. "it's not our fault, it's bad because it was not designed or built by our god-emperor!"

Nobody can burn through money like your leaders.

Going from 6,9By to 4,4 By that is close to 30% less income for the city. Oh they will fire people!

Trams are slow and cumbersome compared to EV buses, basically nobody was using it. I live in Zhuhai. At least the local government did something about it by tearing it down.

Love the voice of this guy the most

China, "Shit, we need to print more money." Oh Well.

italy, athens, samsun and kayseri has these trams RUNNING SAFE AND SOUND, what the hell wouldve they done for sirio trams to be like this

In Taiwan 4 years ago , got to see how they make the MRT there !

Interesting , Thank You.

Rise up People of China

If the CCP wants a guaranteed return on investment for public transport, they should make the end stop outside the country...

Hahaha. Still waiting to see their 3rd aircraft carrier actually working.

Is that as fast as it runs?

I wouldn’t trust any Italian made things , my Italian cars always breaks down on me

Never built a tram when you can build a subway or an elevated rail system. Tofu-dreg'ness of projects in PRC aside, very few tram/light rail systems are successful.

As if “public opinion” makes a difference in China.

This is what happens when governments are told to implement infrastructure projects to boost GDP and care nothing about the success of the project, look to make money out of it themselves, through land sales and kickbacks through contractors than know not what they are supposed to do! It’s been likened to digging holes and filling them in shortly after! The project does increase GDP, but cannot be sustained indefinitely!

Well tats a shock Chinese infrastructure is moving in to it’s maintenance phase and most of it is irreparable after 5 years Now the know how the house buyers feel

Never ever buy trams from Italian Ansaldobreda! Our city did and they were utter garbage and rusted. Ansaldobreda couldn't repair them so our City broke the contract and did it themselves instead. A few of these trams had to be scrapped though. We are now buying French Alstom trams instead and fingers crossed they are better made.

So basically some CCP member rorted another CCP member's company and shoved this where ever they thought from a 5 minute review on a Monday morning

Normal countries are creating this project because there's a public demand for it. CCP on the other hand is just the opposite. They'll create this kind of projects, finish it and market it to the public even though the public doesn't demands it.

Tofu Dreg. It's not just for breakfast any more.

Saw some 'tram types ' also not so busy from what I saw . If you can have an underground system of mass transoprt , why not one at ground level . How to power all the electric trams ? Doubt the existing guys would be happy . This idea was crazy from the start :-) Revenue is core !

so the problem was that instead of the perfectly normal overhad wires seen everywhere they decided to reivent the wheel and made it unnecesaryly complex for no reason lol

All these failed trams in chuna can be given away to Malaysian cities like ipoh, jb, sandakan, miri, bintulu, sarikei, besut, seremban, melaka city, and perlis.... It'll be useful for us to travel around

Derailed in 3 days or 3 years?.

I commend China for canceling a failed project. That is a rare victory for any bureaucracy.

These are mostly design issues , caused by the supplier ! Who pays ? What will the demolition cost ? Job creation :-) And more lanes on the roads :-)

This is what happens when you chase GDP above all else.

It's better than the bombs America spends its taxes on dropping them in Afghanistan for 20 years lol China invests in tech America invests in bombs 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The urbanists are gonna be reeing hard at this one.

How do you derail a tram ???? Its literaly just like a bus

Sees the Stitch carriage - aww cute, they got a Stitch themed carriage . . . I bet the don't have a Disney licence.

China is all show and no go.

Started to fall apart I year after it was built. Just leave it there it will rust away within 2 years.

Derailed in 3 days? India derailed their project railroad train in 10 days. They beat them by 7 days.

Crazy

They need Monorail! Cue the song and dance.

So this was a bad idea. Still they built it, ran it and removed it in three years. In 20 years China has built 45,000 kms of high speed rail. In California over a similar period of time they have managed to start work on 120 miles of HSR track. China builds trains no one uses to areas of little demand and California has yet to run a train. There's probably over 25 million people that would be served by this line. This makes proposals for a 300 mile line connecting Portland, Seattle and Vancouver (the Vancouver to Vancouver + Line?) a pie in the sky fantasy.

They could have spent the money on schools and hospitals….

its a bus!!!

Integrated in Chinese means "Stealing" Make your own trams....

Ansaldo Breda. That explains all.

The Japanese language signs at the train station shown at 10:30 in this video, indicate it's located in Japan, not in China.

What a train wreck, no pun intended.

Should have just put in a HyperLoop, waste some real money. Like US taxpayers did through Federal Grants, because everyone thinks (thought?) Elon Musk is a god genius here to save mankind.

This is just the traditional China tofu dreg special.

The only way to make public transportation profitable is to ban private cars.This can make it inconvenient for a lot of people and slows down productive people at their jobs.Maybe if every other day people could drive and alternate on trains the next. more people would ride a tram but it would kill efficency. Cities all over the world lose money with public transportation and must be subsidized by government through real estate taxes,city taxes on wages and central government income taxes.If people were forced to ride them the only good thing would be less air pollution. I bet rich people in China pay less taxes than the rich in the West. Just my guess.

This reminds me of the LRT in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia which was built by China. then Ethiopia and China are proud that they are making progress?🤣. But the LRT route has problems due to lack of electricity supply🤣. for countries like Africa it is very ridiculous when they force the operation of electric trains. because the electricity supply in poor countries is often not on 24 hours and is uneven. Moreover, electric trains are considered wasteful of electricity/energy for poor countries. which causes only half of the train series to operate. This is with operational costs that are too high to the point that the Ethiopian government has to go into debt again to cover operational costs at a loss. Very sad, that Ethiopia has been cheated by China for its inefficient infrastructure🤣. even though they can make public transportation that is cheaper in terms of development costs and cheaper operationally, namely BRT as implemented in Bogota, Colombia, Jakarta, Indonesia and Salvador, Brazil.

HSR , cool at what cost ? Needing a reserved seat is extra in Taiwan . Can get busy . If you are almost in a rush :-) Regular rail is way cheaper /km travelled .

but their high speed rail is still decades ahead of usa

then they sell the tram ti other country. now sarawak state of malaysia also required tram system with crcc. i m sure later will result the same if birth country also already dismantled

Trams , my gran was a conductor on them , around 1930 in Birmingham UK . You still had to get to the main hub , not many outlying stations . 100 years later :-) Make them economical . And well run . Seem good in a few cities in europe .

hurry up and build it faster at all costs! the CCP is so not WE TODD EDD.....

Urban central planners have always plugged mass transit and high density living. The people who live there must be content with such manipulation. No factories, no jobs, but lots of government. And gotta keep those LFGC construction projects moving...CCP jobs depend on that. Puurfect.

Now we're talking, a truly different video other than society this economy that

dang

Tofu dreg tramway, many city around the world have tramways and it work very well, but China can't build basic urban infrastructure

Tofu dreg tram!

Another Tofu project.

Gavin NEWSOM does this type of chaos too