Italy's $12.7BN Bridge to Sicily 

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Just another AWESOME video by an AWESOME channel! Also when will your next video on NEOM be?

Not likely.

have you ever heard of the Juneau road to nowhere? It's a long running $600million project trying to bring access to Alaska's capital. dot.alaska.gov/sereg/projects/juneau_access_old/faq.shtml#faq1

why is it so expensive, Franbuild its millau viaduct for 400m$ only...

Why exactly is that? A curious Pole asking

@@szymonrucinski7529 Because Matteo Salvini is one of the worst Italian politicians. he is a far-right politician and is very inconsistent, just think that he is part of a political party called the Northern League and wanted the independence of Northern Italy, he also has friendly relations with Vladimir Putin and still does not fully condemn the situation in Ukraine. In addition to the fact that 10 years ago in an interview he said he was against the construction of this bridge. There would be a thousand more points...

@@matteodaddario Oh wow, thanks for the reply, we also have people like that in Poland so I know the pain, good luck to you guys!

I agree with you. Probably this YTber doesn't know the reality BTS.

It should have been built 50 years ago, and those who didn't, not Salvini, should be ashamed.

Yes,Is very improbable that a cargo ship would be longer than 65 meters,Is would be like a car long 9 meters

Plans were made and the money are ready

@@creeperpl4yer Money are not ready... Then the project is old and not updated to the latest technologies and threats. Even if by some miracle this bridge will be built, I would not step on it even if my life depended on it...

@@directorofcats3283 the project was updated

Lo vedrai lo vedrai

@@directorofcats3283 hahahahaah rincojonito retrogrado

tell the people that if they are Sicilian or Calabrian and oppose this Savior Bridge, which will make them almost as prosperous as the Milanese, that they are imbeciles. If they are leftists, I would not be surprised, but if they are econ literate, what is wrong ith them? DO they hate Italy? To they want to keep the Sicilians and Calabrians second class citizens?

Lo sapevi che il berlusca tifava inter?

If you really care about the meridional issue, you should not be a leftist, you should be a fascist, since the politician who really made something to solve the problem was Mussolini.

It's depressing to see the situation in the southernmost part of our country. All the issues that are, by definition, deeply ingrained in our society explode there due to geography. The steep mountains of Calabria and the sea around Sicily isolate them from the rest of the country and cut them off from many trade routes, making them poor and underdeveloped, prone to fail from the start in any initiative the people living there might take. What the community there needs are infrastructures that link places to places in an efficient and effective way. The bridge should serve as the capstone that coronates a much bigger project aimed at revolutionize transportation in those two region. Of you do _only_ the bridge though, you won't solve much. My fear is that the government will start this building and, provided it gets completed and not abandoned midway, they won't upgrade the rest of the infrastructure of the regions, making the bridge kinda useless

​@@albertofuzzi7200 with that kind of money, we could improve infrastructure by a lot. calabria and sicily are left out from the economic progress of the north and centre, and better roads, highways and train tracks WOULD help a lot. but no, salvini has got to build a bridge that 1will face tons of problem 2will be used by the mafia to suck more money from our taxes 3might not even be actually built (knowing how things go in the south....) comunque non so perchè scrivo in inglese, boh

Ne dubito. 😂 lo stanno costruendo dal 251 ac o da fine 800.

@@Uomo-ratto 🤣

Bella questa, lo finiranno nel 3000... 😂

@@Uomo-rattoahahah 😂

Se vuoi c’è la versione più dettagliata: It is a catchphrase so ancient that it left its first traces in 251 BC. The idea returned to the forefront in the 19th century and in the years of the roaring industrial revolution. In Italy there were two proposals (in 1870 and 1883) for a first suspension bridge project. a few years later (in 1908) an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 almost entirely destroyed the city of Messina, killing 80 thousand people and leading politicians to reconsider the plans for the Bridge given the seismicity of the area. In the first half of the 20th century, Mussolini mentioned the Strait Bridge on two occasions, as a work to be built after the war to relaunch Italy. But the first date to circle for the relaunch of the bridge is 1969. The bridge will be built by 1994 Claudio Signorile, Minister for extraordinary interventions in the South, 1984 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 «At the end of '88 the construction sites will open. By 1998 we will have the bridge." Italy is in turmoil, so much so that it even stirred the imagination of Walt Disney. In 1982 “Uncle Scrooge and the Messina Bridge” was released Berlusconi, At the end of 2000 he was a guest at Porta a Porta to sign his "Contract with the Italians", a sort of written pact based on five electoral promises. During the broadcast he draws the major works to be carried out on a map of Italy. Among them, there is the Bridge over the Strait, a symbol of the relaunch of Sicily. “Il ponte di Messina questa volta si farà, lo garantiamo. Porremo la prima pietra nel 2004, e lo concluderemo entro il 2020” Silvio Berlusconi, 2002. In 2010, Impregilo finally delivered the final design of the bridge. The person in charge of designing the main structures is none other than star architect Daniel Libeskind. In 2013, Stretto di Messina Spa, the public company created in 1981, was put into liquidation and the project lapsed. The government is forced to pay a penalty of 300 million euros to Impregilo, the company that won the contract to build the bridge. Renzi 2016. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. METHODOLOGICAL NOTE The data contained in this page were collected by L'Eco della Stampa by examining the articles that contained the term "bridge over the strait" + one of these words: "completed", "ready", "rebirth", "relaunch", " necessary”, “fundamental”, “urgent”, “waste”, “useless” appeared in a selection of Italian newspapers. 😂

We olso say "when donkeys fly"

He literally says this in the video

Per fare il ponte ti prenderanno 80$ moltiplicati per 1000 e più… non ci rientri, non si fa in poco tempo… c’è la criminalità che userà materiali scadenti, la zona è a rischio terremoti e tsunami con magnitudo fino a 8… e poi mancano delle strade serie, una linea ferroviaria seria… una cosa non hanno concluso questo ponte… non sono in grado…

Non salverà soldi a nessuno… costerà allo stesso modo, se non leggermente di più

@@franchino2995 Sicuramente, attraversare un ponte per 5minuti con la macchina costerà 70 euro come prendere un traghetto via mare per più di mezz'ora. Tu devi essere quello intelligente della famiglia vero?

@@kevinp8027 tu invece della famiglia non devi essere quello che ha studiato… Né economia, perché ponte, interessi, manutenzione e tutto quello che ci gira intorno, deve essere ripagato in un determinato numero di anni (con un utile da aggiungere). Né marketing, perché metteranno il viaggiatore di fronte all’ovvia scelta: - ponte 50,60,70€ (5 minuti) - traghetto 80€ (1 ora). PS: tunnel del monte bianco: costruito 60 anni fa… completamente ripagata la costruzione … costa ancora 50€ a passaggio! Non considero la ricostruzione dopo incendio perché aveva messo mano l’assicurazione.

@@franchino2995 Quello che non capisce nulla di economia sei tu. Il ponte permettera di fare attraversare molti più mezzi in molto meno tempo rispetto ai traghetti, il che ti fa capire che proporzionalmente possono mantenere dei prezzi molto più competitivi. E non ha senso da parte tua fare una stima che va dai 50 ai 70 euro dato che non c'è nessun dato ufficiale al riguardo

They are already connected. What Sicilia needs is better infrastructures in the island, better railways and highways

Thanks a lot for supporting for so long :)

​@@MegaBuildsYTThis Is Just for finance mafia, the Will start Building It, give Money to a mafia's company and then stop Building and keep the money

How does it create damage? I'm just curious.

@@lpe655 Extra logistics costs due to lack of connection to continental corridors

@Ale7it So you're talking about financial damage, not physical damage?

@@lpe655 of course. Economic

Yes, mafia and 'ndrangheta Will thanks a lot for economy benefits

Correct, better example would have been the northern tip of Norway or (a bit further and to the East) Vladivostok.

True, I was shocked when I heard this false statement.

why not just make it 1 more meter tall to be a nice even 400m Anyway hi from Australia maybe when i come to visit Italy i hope i might get to see it.

@@blackIce504 Aviation obstruction lights will be on top of the tower, and they will stand at way more than 400m. The guy who will have to change the light bulb, when it needs changing, will see an excellent view from up there. What a unique job! Greetings from Tuscany, Australian friend! (Where r u from? Melbourne? Sydney? Beautiful cities)

@@HeresTheGenZFlorentineFolks. Sydney but its shit so is melbourne, Aust used to be great no so much anymore all due to poor government.

You sir, have made a mistake. He said in the video the information for the bridge is from 2006.

@@1BobsYourUncle yup, the old project. A channel with over 1 Millions subscribers shouldn’t make this kind of mistakes.

Ex Impregilo (ma perché inglesizziamo tutto?)

@@umegghju Perchè, Impregilo è una parola della lingua italiana? Io Impregilo, tu Impregili... 😄

@@marcobeardo1410 L'acronimo 'Impre-gi-lo' nasce dal "patto GILT" un consorzio di imprese (Girola, Impresit, Lodigiani, Torno) formato nel 1955. Non è una parola italiana ma non è una parola che trovi nel vocabolario. Comunque ha una base italiana, la pronunci con le regole dell'italiano. We build invece è indubbiamente inglese, la pronunci secondo le regole inglesi, con la E pronunciata I, e le vocali UI pronunciate come I. Lo dovevo proprio spiegare?

@@umegghju Interessante spiegazione, grazie. Le spiego io perchè ha cambiato nome: WeBuild è un'impresa che ha ambizioni globali. E' molto più semplice presentarsi con un nome che tutti possano capire, piuttosto che con un nome anonimo o impronunciabile. Le società cinesi hanno quasi tutti nomi composti da sigle in caratteri latini, questo perchè altrimenti nessuno potrebbe neppure leggerne il nome. E' la globalizzazione.

@@marcobeardo1410 Uhmm... può avere senso, ma ci sono molte aziende nel mondo che funzionano senza avere un nome in inglese e rivolte al grande pubblico: Kawasaki (coi caratteri latini ma nome nipponico), Motorola (che è USA), Bayer (tedesca), Alfa Romeo, Nokia... Lasciamo stare perché ormai "il danno è fatto", il problema è il nome infantile che hanno scelto che non capisco. Infine, le marche che ho citato vendono al grande pubblico, per cui il nome è importante, mentre la Impregilo aveva a che fare con appalti fatti da grandi aziende se non da stati. A questi enti importa non tanto il nome che metti sul prodotto (tra l'altro a fine lavoro non metti il nome su un ponte), ma: tempi di costruzione, esperienze pregresse, costi e qualità dell'opera...

one THOUSAND cheques

Mille milla 😂😂😂😂😂

thank you :)

@@MegaBuildsYT You are just a Person filled with Hate Get Lost

You can t, the euro tunne (the tunnel between france and UK) is only for train, you load the car on the train and turn off the engine so you aren't driving

@@Lorre982 and you can the same using the car ferry to Messina. You can even use the train ferry without leaving your train

Not just London, Edinburgh and even further north, to the tip of Britain.

@@anastassiosperakis2869 If you are going that far, I would recommend the northern tip of Norway. And with the exception of the Straight of Messina, it can all be done driving. Alternatively, a bit further and to the east is Vladivostok.

Semplice, perché il Giappone è un paese serio. L'Italia è una barzelletta con la mafia e la corruzione più alta d'Europa.

Cuz we're italian man. have you ever seen Italian engines and Japanese engines? I mean, italian engines are beautiful and fun, but not really reliable, aren't they

​@@claudiosolomon1324 don't sell yourselves short, you're literally Romans, have you seen their architecture.

@@claudiosolomon1324 di che motori parli? oggi tutti i motori italiani sono resistenti!

@@marcoles2987 non quanto i giapponesi. I migliori al mondo, famosi per dare pochi problemi sono Honda, Toyota e Nissan

Sure, they gonna show you all the plans...

They wouldn't stop the project, they would take it over and pocket as much as possible. The Mafia itself in Sicily has lost much of its power in the last decades, but ’Ndrangheta on the mainland has taken over. In Calabria's biggest city Reggio, in 2012 the whole city council was sacked due to organized crime connections and the city put under federal administration.

Bro you don’t get it? They really want this… more than the government, do some math

​@@hemusbull there are no plans

@@eljanrimsa5843 italy isn't a federation

The Öresund Bridge, which connects Denmark and Sweden, is 7,845 meters long. The bridge's pylons, which are the tall vertical structures supporting the main span, are 204 meters tall. The vertical clearance under the main span of the bridge, which allows ships to pass beneath, is 57 meters. The Öresund Bridge is a combined bridge and tunnel structure, specifically classified as a cable-stayed bridge.

@@greathawken7579 On Dec. 25, 1975, I took a train to Sweden for a holiday while serving in the U.S. Army in Germany. I was asleep, but the last leg of the trip was from Copenhagen to Stockholm. It was well before that bridge. I think the train boarded a ferry.

Also Hel in Poland

It is a catchphrase so ancient that it left its first traces in 251 BC. The idea returned to the forefront in the 19th century and in the years of the roaring industrial revolution. In Italy there were two proposals (in 1870 and 1883) for a first suspension bridge project. a few years later (in 1908) an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 almost entirely destroyed the city of Messina, killing 80 thousand people and leading politicians to reconsider the plans for the Bridge given the seismicity of the area. In the first half of the 20th century, Mussolini mentioned the Strait Bridge on two occasions, as a work to be built after the war to relaunch Italy. But the first date to circle for the relaunch of the bridge is 1969. The bridge will be built by 1994 Claudio Signorile, Minister for extraordinary interventions in the South, 1984 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 «At the end of '88 the construction sites will open. By 1998 we will have the bridge." Italy is in turmoil, so much so that it even stirred the imagination of Walt Disney. In 1982 “Uncle Scrooge and the Messina Bridge” was released Berlusconi, At the end of 2000 he was a guest at Porta a Porta to sign his "Contract with the Italians", a sort of written pact based on five electoral promises. During the broadcast he draws the major works to be carried out on a map of Italy. Among them, there is the Bridge over the Strait, a symbol of the relaunch of Sicily. “Il ponte di Messina questa volta si farà, lo garantiamo. Porremo la prima pietra nel 2004, e lo concluderemo entro il 2020” Silvio Berlusconi, 2002. In 2010, Impregilo finally delivered the final design of the bridge. The person in charge of designing the main structures is none other than star architect Daniel Libeskind. In 2013, Stretto di Messina Spa, the public company created in 1981, was put into liquidation and the project lapsed. The government is forced to pay a penalty of 300 million euros to Impregilo, the company that won the contract to build the bridge. Renzi 2016. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. METHODOLOGICAL NOTE The data contained in this page were collected by L'Eco della Stampa by examining the articles that contained the term "bridge over the strait" + one of these words: "completed", "ready", "rebirth", "relaunch", " necessary”, “fundamental”, “urgent”, “waste”, “useless” appeared in a selection of Italian newspapers. 😂

I'll be 71 in July and am pretty sure I will live to drive over it.

Hopefully not. Just a waist of money. Sicily needs just better railway and highways

@@elcontes yeah and those money already assigned to the project will just vanish, i guarantee it. and do you think they're going to build a bridge that leads to nothing??

I don't think businesses trying to move items really care for the enjoyment of people for the ferry. Italy's trying to create conditions for growth and economic wealth for underprivileged territories, not trying to make life less beautiful for anybody

@@claudiosolomon1324 Yeah I totally understand the business side. Just saying that I like the ferries for nostalgic value.

I took the damned Danish ferries in summer 1988 and there was NOTHING to like about them, they slowed our trip down considerably, especially since the first one was allegedly full and could not take us, so we had to wait at some DESOLATE spot, of ZERO tourist interest, to take the next boxy, slow and ugly ferry.

@@anastassiosperakis2869 I took multiple ferries in 1998 and they were all awesome. One even carried a whole train. sorry you didn''t have a nice experience.

Non so sei italiano o non,ma ti scrivo lo stesso in italiano.Dunque,il governo ha stanziato 40 miliardi per le infrastrutture al sud.Stanno addirittura costruendo una nuova stazione a Messina

Yeah, and Calabria want this, because with bridge a region can have new Autobahn along all region to Campania and rest of Country.

Ofc the people that work in the ferries will go out of business

There were (and are) continuous "information" campaigns made by ambientalists, people of a different party, and so on.. that confuse people. Similar things happen with the nuclear power, Italy had it and does not want because of so-called environmentalists.

Right,more long Is the suspension bridge,more is resisent at fault lines

Are you comparing a 1550m span bridge with one over 3200m and with a railway running over it? But are you serious or are you Salvini?. In Denmark they preferred to build an underground tunnel rather than run the tracks over the bridge; What does this tell you?

@@user-xk9dl8xw8l I am not comparing the bridge that exist and the other one as planned. I am just saying that any suspension bridge can be build over a fault line. Not mentioned about their span or total length.

@@otaggokcer6875 This seems like a risky statement to me

It is a catchphrase so ancient that it left its first traces in 251 BC. The idea returned to the forefront in the 19th century and in the years of the roaring industrial revolution. In Italy there were two proposals (in 1870 and 1883) for a first suspension bridge project. a few years later (in 1908) an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 almost entirely destroyed the city of Messina, killing 80 thousand people and leading politicians to reconsider the plans for the Bridge given the seismicity of the area. In the first half of the 20th century, Mussolini mentioned the Strait Bridge on two occasions, as a work to be built after the war to relaunch Italy. But the first date to circle for the relaunch of the bridge is 1969. The bridge will be built by 1994 Claudio Signorile, Minister for extraordinary interventions in the South, 1984 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 «At the end of '88 the construction sites will open. By 1998 we will have the bridge." Italy is in turmoil, so much so that it even stirred the imagination of Walt Disney. In 1982 “Uncle Scrooge and the Messina Bridge” was released Berlusconi, At the end of 2000 he was a guest at Porta a Porta to sign his "Contract with the Italians", a sort of written pact based on five electoral promises. During the broadcast he draws the major works to be carried out on a map of Italy. Among them, there is the Bridge over the Strait, a symbol of the relaunch of Sicily. “Il ponte di Messina questa volta si farà, lo garantiamo. Porremo la prima pietra nel 2004, e lo concluderemo entro il 2020” Silvio Berlusconi, 2002. In 2010, Impregilo finally delivered the final design of the bridge. The person in charge of designing the main structures is none other than star architect Daniel Libeskind. In 2013, Stretto di Messina Spa, the public company created in 1981, was put into liquidation and the project lapsed. The government is forced to pay a penalty of 300 million euros to Impregilo, the company that won the contract to build the bridge. Renzi 2016. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. Ecc. METHODOLOGICAL NOTE The data contained in this page were collected by L'Eco della Stampa by examining the articles that contained the term "bridge over the strait" + one of these words: "completed", "ready", "rebirth", "relaunch", " necessary”, “fundamental”, “urgent”, “waste”, “useless” appeared in a selection of Italian newspapers. 😂

Ma… non siamo più all’epoca dell’Impero Romano… li le cose le facevano e bene… questa è l’Italia… ho detto tutto…. Basta la parola, il nome.

@@gggmmmxspace Eppure la Taipei 101 è sopravvissuta al terremoto con tecnologia italiana. Le più grandi dighe nel mondo le facciamo noi. Costruiamo centrali nucleari in giro per il mondo. I 2 più lunghi tunnel ferroviari la mondo li stanno completando in Italia. Gli USA compreranno da noi le loro fregate. Le marine di tutto il mondo occidentale usano i nostri cannoni OTO. La prima ferrovia ad alta velocità al mondo (la direttissima a 250km/h) l'abbiamo fatta noi nel 1988 prima dei Giapponesi. Quando sei all'estero un prodotto aumenta di valore per il solo: "Made in Italy". Se non credi nell'Italia, espatria e CIAO CIAO.al mondo

Do you know who Salvini is? 🙄

È zona a rischio terremoto e tsunami… magnitudo fino quasi 8…

@@ferruccioveglio8090shut up… u’r only ignorant

@@gggmmmxspace e quindi?

@@franchino2995 E quindi, nulla… speriamo in bene… che ti devo dire…

Volete sapere perché la mafia non è mai stata sconfitta ed è così potente?? Perché la mafia è a Roma.

i siciliani aspettano i frecciarossa, le autostrade e specialmente la fornitura idrica il resto sono chiacchiere.

Strano visto che la più critica dei no ponte è proprio:"è ma prima costruiamo ferrovie e strade poi pensiamo al pontehhhhhh!11!1!1!1!1!1!"

@@culturanerd4877 il ponte lo stanno costruendo solo perche l’unione europea sta mettendo pressione senno se ne sbatterebbero il cazzo sai quanto gliene frega della sicilia a loro

The Öresund Bridge, which connects Denmark and Sweden, is 7,845 meters long. The bridge's pylons, which are the tall vertical structures supporting the main span, are 204 meters tall. The vertical clearance under the main span of the bridge, which allows ships to pass beneath, is 57 meters. The Öresund Bridge is a combined bridge and tunnel structure, specifically classified as a cable-stayed bridge.

@@greathawken7579 it is an amazing project too but of a different kind. I must say I missed the comparison between the 2 though

The Öresund Bridge, which connects Denmark and Sweden, is 7,845 meters long. The bridge's pylons, which are the tall vertical structures supporting the main span, are 204 meters tall. The vertical clearance under the main span of the bridge, which allows ships to pass beneath, is 57 meters. The Öresund Bridge is a combined bridge and tunnel structure, specifically classified as a cable-stayed bridge.

You can travel through Denmark to Sweden over the øresund bridge.

R.I.P your grandma cousin

I took a look at it, but i'm not sure if we could make an entire video about that and if it would fit to our usual content

@@MegaBuildsYT Exactly, it wouldn't be a video on a mega-scale construction project.

Perhaps you could do a video on recent megaproject repairs after disaster/damage?​@MegaBuildsYT

Yes, that should have been specified. Motor vehicles have to be loaded on a train there. The reason certainly is not only that additional tunnels for motor vehicles would have been costly. The exhaust gases could also not be easily removed, especially not without a creation of utterly annoying obstacles for ships. Moreover, England has driving on the left, which would necessitate an abrupt conversion in the middle of a ride.

Yes, that's a mistake. But you can drive instead across the Great Belt and the Oresund to reach Nordkapp, starting from Reggio Calabria or Tarifa or Ythion.

@@ferruccioveglio8090 Or you could drive all the way to Vladivostok, Russia, a distance of 12,731 miles!

@@HansDunkelberg1I never understood why uk had to be difficult and drive on the other side of the road

To have a smooth entrance angle they need to start drilling to far away remember the sea is deeper then the Channe between the UK and France

@@Lorre982 It's deep enough to drop in concrete tubes all the way, and only on both ends do they need tunneling.

@@MySpace662 the tunnel need to start at least 20km away from the coastline in both direcions, this means loosing lots of time connecting the two city, you start 20km away from Reggio Calabria driving along the tunnel, arriving 20km away from Messina and going back 20km to Messina. Between the tectonic plate and 3 active vulcanos is not a good idea drilling.

@@Lorre982 Nothing is impossible in engineering: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tNrSUKrv0k4.html

@@Lorre982 Only the train tunnel needs smooth slopes. Road traffic can handle steep slopes.

È perché lui è americano, quindi non conosce le città italiane apparte Roma, Napoli,Milano e Firenze, quindi avrà probabilmente scritto "Baglia di città siciliana".

Va bene,ero solo un po' confuso visto che io sono di Cefalù.

High-speed rail when & where the infrastructure is non-existent & must be built from scratch is always an enormously expensive prospect. High-speed trains need dedicated rail lines with no at-grade road crossings & can not use existing lines. California can build & has built some impressive mega-projects (the new Bay Bridge, for example). And it has some of the best-developed in the world infrastructure for moving & storing water. But this high-speed rail proposal is several orders of magnitude more ambitious & visionary than all of those.

Hope it starts happening just to prove you a fool

Nope, there was always politics in the way. The bridge DOES make sense economically and environmentally and there's no problem with the structure or the engineering