And the best blag on YT award goes to Fred B1M...yaaaay! ') What a wonderful lookin' Island chain & community I've never heard of, now I can stick a pin in it.
That was a creative way to deal with your trip cancellation! 👏 Loved the self-deprecating tie to Daniel Craig. At least I thought it was self-deprecating... 🤣
I've been to the Faroes a few years ago, before these tunnels were built, and even then I was completely blown away by the infrastructure. This is just crazy
It's so refreshing to see public policy taking into consideration the needs of the people. The fact that residents of Sandoy can take a trip to the hospital, for instance, in Streymoy, which I reckon may be better equipped, in less time is marvelous. That's the whole point of public infrastructure!
Makes the transporting of all those pilot whale carcasses so much easier. If only it had been built by last year to move the 1400 that were killed in one day.
It seems to be working saving the really remote villages on the Lofoten. And the Feroe are really becoming popular with tourists, just like the Lofoten, as the accessibility of all the islands increases.
@@nicolasbertin8552 so... becoming like iceland where the culture is stripped out and replaced with an amusement park which resembles nothing of the original island yes?
@@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 Iceland was already stripped out by its people when they cut down almost all the forest on the island. I would much prefer if they restored their forests to their original state. You can have massive tourism without it looking like an amusement park.
Also, any tourists to the faroe islands will have a more compelling reason to visit with all these tunnels, faster transit equals more time for sight seeing and easier access to the other islands!
Eysturoy, Streymoy, Sandoy. The -oy means 'island' and is the same word we see in some Scottish islands once populated by Vikings, like the -ey in Orkney, the -ay in Stornoway and Islay. Possibly even the same in the more southern Channel Islands, Jersey and Guernsey. In Norwegian it's -øya, in Swedish it's ö, and in Danish it's ø. Just in case you were wondering....
It's also the first part of the word "island" (which really has no business having an s in there -- the original spelling was "iland"/"yland"/"oland"). Why is there an s now? Because of people who knew Latin and thought they knew English. In case anybody is wondering, the second part really does mean land.
At least in Norway, the last -a in "øya" doesn't necessarily need to be there, at least for the western part of the country. A lot of islands here only has -øy as the ending.
I visited the Faroe Islands a few months ago. I drove through this fantastic new tunnel with the roundabout and many other tunnels during my trip. Very impressive infrastructure for such a small country. While the scenery is very rugged and beautiful, it’s also easy to imagine how isolated all the islands and tiny villages would have been in the old days. I absolutely loved every minute of it.
They were very isolated, 100 years ago, every village had its own special dialect. Many of them are gone now. Now we have 4 main dialects. North, center, and 2 in the south: Sandoy and Suðuroy
@@MrBlastinBruce I saw it once, absolutely brutal and gory but insane how coordinated the people are and in some way its kinda cool how much it looks like a viking practice.
Killing whales in the Faroe Islands is one of the best way, if not the best way to kill a wild animal, this is humane. We see the world as it is, we kill animals for food, we don't hide it in a slaughter house where no cameras are allowed. Difference her is that farm animals blood goes down the drain, neat and clean for no one to see, easy to turn a blind eye to. This is our culture, we do not sensor the natural way of life, how we humans live. Our children see firsthand at school how a sheep is killed and slaughtered.
The Faroese road administration has been in Norway studying our tunnels, and the Norwegian road administration has been a part of the projects in the Farao Islands.
My god those opening shots look more real than real life. Hows that even possible!? Insane quality. Your hard work is appreciated, always great content. Keep it up please.
I've went in the Faroese in 2019, driving through each of the possible tunnels (old dark narrow one-lane ones, to modern undersea wide ones) and they were an impressive part of my trip, I remember :) . Unfortunately this Esturoy one with its roundabout wasn't finished and still not open at that time. But I've experienced a similar underground roundabout that also exists in Norway, under a mountain, not undersea, connecting TWO crossing tunnels. It's stunning! (update) The last tunnel you talk, the one to Sandoy, may look as an outrageously huge investment per capita, but I think it could trigger a very good underlying touristic potential, as this island is nearly the only one you can ride easily with a bicycle (as far as I experienced), and as I remember, the quietest and sweetest place of the archipelago I've went through.
well, if tourism and people actually come, it will not be so quiet or sweet anymore, it will change. maybe they can become a suburb of the capital with bicicle infra and tourism, it sounds nice. the end result of the connectivity infra will turn all those islands into a unified small city essentially and its suburbs and outskirts.
@@baraodascolinas979 Well I will not worry about that : Faroese is a small archipelago, with few population, in a not easily accessible place for tourists, wet and cold weather, but their government is already working on tourism quota for limiting the number of people. Dispite there's several people talking in this video who are from faroese's touristic office and would love to have more tourists, they are far from mass tourism risk.
If your statement is correct about the Faroese not having a undersea roundabout in 2019. Then the title of this video may be misleading since Norway actually had one in 2019. The tunnel I'm talking about is called Karmøytunnelen, which is an undersea tunnel with a roundabout, which were finished built and available for traffic in 2013.
@@larsjrundflesland9326 After checking it on gmaps, it seems that, yes, the Karmøytunnelen is partly under the sea, but the roundabout part of the tunnel, unfortunately, is under a land.
Hey Fred, amazing video, as always! I think you'll find it interesting that there is a 51.6 kilometer mountainous section of the E60 highway under construction here in Georgia (the country) that includes 96 bridges and 53 tunnels. Crazy, right? I'd be thrilled to see a video about my country on your channel. Cheers!
Wow, It's crazy to see all these beautiful scenery in Faroe Islands .Also those big projects for just 50,000 people sounds insane but I am more than happy to see that they can afford it.
multibillion infrastructure project for 50,000 people of a sleepy fishing town on an island sounds really fishy. investors must have seen some kind of potential on these islands
So, first I want to say, "Thank you, Fred and all the B1M crew for making these videos!" I look forward to these videos even though I'm not an engineer, I just love seeing things built. These tunnels are very impressive. Not only do they provide the infrastructure needed for the residents of the islands, but it also preserves the natural beauty of the islands. Keep up the great work!
I am very impressed with the tunnelling they’ve done for such a small number of people. Brave living smack bang in the middle of the North Sea! And making it work adapting the landscape to them.
COST OF $700,000 DOLLARS PER PERSON. Well, the Islamic community wishes to thank you all for creating such a beautiful addition to their new/future home country for immigrant Muslims. Especially so, since in 50 years, most of the entire country will be inhabited by dark skinned peoples. Native born locals ARE NOT breeding and their population will be nearly gone in a mere 6 generations, or less. Thank you, again, for your most wonderful upgrade to their, the immigrants, new country. (I wonder if they'll rename it. Mecca2 maybe?) Allahu Akbar!
It’s amazing to see the difference from the Faroes to the nearby Shetlands, Orkneys and Western Isles of Scotland. The latter is seriously struggling with an ageing fleet of ferries which are getting more unreliable. I liked one of the quotes at the end, seeing the country as one whole that needs to be connected rather than pure ‘vehicles/passengers per day’ metrics we often use to justify projects. The UK could use more of this thinking - thanks B1M!
And where should they get the money? the Faroes are lucky to have the European Union to finance this bullshit (instead of using that money for other regions that need it more).
being so close to the northern uk 🇬🇧 tunneling would be a good chance for connecting to Europe or Iceland 🇮🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 and USA 🇺🇸 boosting local activity's like trading and touristisim ect
Don't worry Fred, the quality that we all come to The B1M for still shines through in the writing and editing. On the ground footage is just an added bonus
The gray bearded guy at 1:10 is the artist who made the art installation at the roundabout. His name is Tróndur Pætursson. He has a very distinct painting style and makes beautiful glass sculptures too.
Now tell me, are the tourist masses starting to get thicker? Are natural comodities you took for granted starting to get scarcer such as nature access or some regional specialty? Are the local shops subsiding to Souvenir shops and general supermarkets?
Thank you so much for making this video. The Faroe Islands are such a beautiful and unique place (in the Atlantic ocean by the way!). I visited the Faroes last year and it was one of the best experiences I've ever had! Much respect for the perseverance and ingenuity they show!!!
I just love watching these videos they’re so informative and entertaining to watch. It’s crazy how people who live there might (I’m not sure if) use these tunnels on a daily basis!
Fjords can be pretty damn deep. Norway has corkscrew tunnels to get deep enough. More likely that the UK is just too poor to be able to invest in itself like this.
I love how small villages in the middle of nowhere can get tunnels but cities with hundreds of thousands of people in mainland europe can't figure out how to do it..
Relative to population size, this is a truly epic undertaking Such focus and dedication hasn't been seen since the building of the pyramids. I wonder why I thought of those? 🙂
Great video Fred! You are always a consummate professional. Even with challenging travel conundrums, you still managed to create world class content. Cheers mate!
A fantastic video, and far more interesting than the usual B1M fare, on account of the fact that a tiny island nation builds a gargantuan tunnel in less time than it takes my hometown to agree to do anything.
This is what happens when Denmark doesn’t have to spend shit on defense because big daddy USA protects them for free. America should stop or charge them because they can do cool shit like this with all that extra money europe saves.
@@barexampasser How about taking pills? Denmark has no US military forces on its soil, it is not protected by the US in any way. And "Daddy USA" is supposed to protect them from what? From their EU neighbors?
@@barexampasser That comment is obviously part of an important discussion but is totally beside the point in this context. Denmark has no influence on the development of the infrastructure in the Faroe Islands - it is a locally managed issue.
Faroe Islands is #1 on my bucket list of places I want to go, it looks absolutely breathtaking and so few people actually know about it. Any time I mention it they don't even know it exists!
No its not...you are just saying this to score likes. NOW all of a sudden when this video is out its on your bucket list🙄😒, i never heard you say this before, you are full of crap
Hi Fred. Regardless of if you were actually there at the Faroe Islands at the time of the filming this documentary is just insignificant to me and your followers. Once again you give precise, detailed, and easy to understand information to us all about world construction projects. The small population of the Faroe Islands must surely be living in a paradise with close infrastructure not too far from them all thanks to these wonderful tunnels. Thanks for creating and posting. DM :)
The best of luck to the islanders. To make the islands more accessible will hopefully stop people moving away from the outer communities and ensure their survival. What a fascinating little community.
Yooooooooooooooo. I have watched this channel for a long long time and i have to say its so fricking fun to see you make a video about my country!!!🤩🤩🇫🇴🇫🇴🇫🇴🇫🇴
When construction projects on a remote island group are more advanded (and practical) than any project on mainland Europe... I don't know what the Scandinavians are eating/drinking because many places on the world could learn a thing or two from these collaborative projects
_When construction projects on a remote island group are more advanded (and practical) than any project on mainland Europe_ How is the Brenner Base Tunnel less practical?
Lol. Lmao even. This is child's play compared to what CERN has been doing for 60 years. Heck, even the latest Paris metro expansion is more complex than this.
I was thinking what was so special about this?? Then I remembered I'm a west-norwegian! When you drive over the Hardanger-bridge (a roundabout tunnel connected to bridge connected to another roundabout tunnel) on a regular basis you kinda get used to amazing tunnels xD Great to see fellow Norse brothers becoming masters of tunneling! Maybe we were dwarves all along.
I mean it is a company and it is sand. I’m no engineer butI would think that preventing sand from filling in is a fair bit harder than reinforcing rock with concrete.
The Boring Company has a long way to go to build something like this - but they're also laser focused on low cost. They didn't spend much on that mile.
@@garysmith5025 Yeah, I think your right, over time there will likely be more people moving back to those islands that only had ferry service in the past. It will probably spur an economic boom and maybe even higher real-estate costs as housing gets tight initially until more is built. Why not live on the smaller island away from the capital and then just commute. Those who move back first probably will get great deals. It's interesting to think about how this will effect those places now finally connected.
Companies made money off of these projects. They didn't do it for free. Also gives the powers that be the opportunity to show how progressive they are.
Where did you get the number 310? The Eysturoy tunnel carries 4-5000 cars per day. Edit: Apparently, the Sandoy tunnel is expected to carry 3-400 cars per day. Still, the Sandoy tunnel is "only" expected to cost €120M.
use your brain. main focus is on propaganda here: well there is a lot of oil and gas money denmark would like to keep. so they have to make the inhabitants happy so they dont get weard ideas like getting independent to use the oil and gas money for them selfes. or worse: trying to become part of norwegen. of course those numbers are insane. all in all its about 1-2 BILLION for only 50t people. but this is a good investment and bring back about 20x of it in oil and gas in next 30-40 years.
COST OF $700,000 DOLLARS PER PERSON. Well, the Islamic community wishes to thank you all for creating such a beautiful addition to their new/future home country for immigrant Muslims. Especially so, since in 50 years, most of the entire country will be inhabited by dark skinned peoples. Native born locals ARE NOT breeding and their population will be nearly gone in a mere 6 generations, or less. Thank you, again, for your most wonderful upgrade to their, the immigrants, new country. (I wonder if they'll rename it. Mecca2 maybe?) Allahu Akbar!
@@Thiefsie I know Melbourne is southern Australia but does it really experience winter (or summer, I get confused here lol)? Might be a bit colder but I doubt you get below 0 degrees and snow fall very often.
@@staropramen478 True, no snow in the city, there are higher regions of Victoria that get snow (only in winter) where our rather pathetic ski-fields are. Nonetheless Melbourne is known for requiring umbrella/raincoat/trench, and sunnies/shorts all in the same day quite regularly.
Nice to put a face to the voice, at last! All this tunneling is absolutely amazing. I'm really more curious as to why it was done. That's a lot of time and effort for a small number of people. Can you imagine a post modern Era, where these people walk the tunnels, wondering how amazing the Ancients were that could do such things 😀
Ok its a small amount of people, but really there is not one person in the whole country that does not benefit.. if you take into account that the travel times between towns and the capital have been cut down from hours into minutes, you can see the huge benefit. people can commute and work in different places, emergency services can be run easier from a central hub, etc. not necessarily disagreeing with you that its a huge investment, but i think it is needed sooner or later
I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering how its economically feasible to build such expensive infrastructure projects for the amount of people it will serve. Nonetheless, I've always wondered what it is like growing up in such a small relatively remote location like this
Simple, if you are a nation and take financial responsibility for the project, then time works in your favor and you can borrow money on longer timescales than commercial enterprises.
Connecting Sandoy, will make it much more attractive both for citizen to live, and industry to establish. Living in Norway, where we have made such road projects for decades, I can promise you it's a project that pays of
These are peanuts compared what goverments spend in nonsense in general. Infrastructure projects even they are costly are very beneficial in the long run. Albeit the project itself needs to actually serve a purpose and not be a vanity project.
Amazing construction they've got going on there, but I do wonder how such a small, out of the way place affords to build these huge projects? I guess they're getting funding from Denmark, but I can't see how the Danes could justify giving that much to a small, mostly independent nation without stipulating some form of return on investment.
The simple answer is Geopolitics. Historically, Faroe Islands has been a part of the Dano-Norweigian kingdom. Denmark is giving Faroe Islands a fixed annual grant. The project was paid by the national annual budget and tunnels are funded by the drive-through fee
@@SuperFaroeIslands Thanks for the info! If other countries invested into their infrastructure like the Faroe Islands, we'd be living in a much happier world.
@@Silent002 Building (or digging) is not always the answer. Yes, you could build high speed rail between two small towns in Lapland, but the money would surely be spent more wisely elsewhere.
Interesting video. One thing that might be discussed is the definition of an underwater tunnel. Near Haugesund we have a tunnel that also has a roundabout in the center that is below sea level. Is that not the first underwater roundabout? Tunnel in question: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Link
We have many, Finnfast or the T-connection are two examples, they are both in Rogaland. A third tunnel project is under construction in Rogaland. Called Rogfast. The main part of Rogfast is the 26.7 kilometer long Boknafjord tunnel, which will be the world's longest undersea road tunnel. In addition, the tunnel has an arm that comes with a roundabout halfway to Kvitsøy. This Kvitsøy Tunnel, will connect Kvitsøy to the mainland on both sides
Ours isn't sub sea though. while the Karmøy tunnel is a subsea tunnel. The roundabout itself sits under the island of Fosen. It's not technically under sea level for that reason. But the Rogfast tunnel will have two.
How is a population so small paying for all these extreme tunneling costs? You would think that would be their whole budget. Does Denmark or someone else pay for it?
I dont know exactly, but I can tell you on the surface its no money lost if your paying your own citizens and using your own materials. Just a good way to recycle the money.
PERFECT QUESTION!! Here is the even bigger picture.: COST OF $700,000 DOLLARS PER PERSON. Well, the Islamic community wishes to thank you all for creating such a beautiful addition to their new/future home country for immigrant Muslims. Especially so, since in 50 years, most of the entire country will be inhabited by dark skinned peoples. Native born locals ARE NOT breeding and their population will be nearly gone in a mere 6 generations, or less. Thank you, again, for your most wonderful upgrade to their, the immigrants, new country. (I wonder if they'll rename it. Mecca2 maybe?) Allahu Akbar!
Technically part of Denmark.... That is just taking the easy way out :) There is something called Denmark, which is a country, and then there is the Kingdom of Denmark. How is it where the narrator is from? Does he have any first hand experiences with something like that?:) Maybe something like England or Scotland vs. the UK....
I like how the Faroese just do things themself. Build their own internet infrastructure, build their own own google translate, build their own tunnels. They never say never.
Anywhere else I would have complained it should have been a rail tunnel. But here trains just don't make sense. Any heavy freight can be shipped over and any light/fast freight is essentially only doing last mile delivery. And the people live spread apart far enough that public transport would have trouble being convenient. That said, putting in some sunken rails on the side to get trams through might be interesting as a future expansion.
Raillines are nice. But not for färöer islands. The tunnels would be too steep for normal raillines. Also there is no dense population center but many small settelings, so you would need allot train stations and more than one line. All in all; the car is absolutly superior for transportation at these islands.
1:43 SO THRUE! Im from the Faroe Islands and once on my birthday which is in February the weather changed about 50 times. One minute it was cloudy the next sunny and then rainy then there was a rainbow and then it was snowing, it just kept changing. It was crazy.
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Meanwhile in the UK the Isle of Wight with nearly 3x the population of the Faroe Islands is still not permanently connected to the mainland which is only 2-3 miles away. Maybe the islanders should form a private company to build a tunnel rather than rely on the UK government?
Of course it's great to build more infrastructure...but insanely priced infrastructure, for one of those tunnels that will only have around 300 cars a day? To connect island populations that are dying - not because of travel difficulty, but because in this era, more people are moving to larger cities. I guess these islands are rich, to have so much money to spend on random tunneling projects. Or more likely, some contractors are getting some pretty sweet deals. Kudos! Great for the people of these islands.
Absolutely!... What's their main source of income as a country?. I do love their tunnels but I'm just wondering how are they able to get this huge projects done with such small population : the answer will be the solution for many countries in need of such projects. Great content. Thank you 👍🏼
Apparently it is a massive loan. They hope to get it back from the road tolls. Except they already have a problem with the Eysturoyartunnilin having a lot less traffic than expected.
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