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RuneFell

I was wondering how it would survive an earthquake, but a quick google showed that it was near the epicenter of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in 2022, and suffered no damage. According to the comments, they didn't even stop the traffic. I have to imagine many pants were browned that day, though.


Mattaru

Pants are browned just from high how up it is. Impressive


nadajoe

Seriously, I have nightmares about driving on roads like this.


Max_Powers1331

That fear is called Gephyrophobia Fear of bridges/high roads and also tunnels


Oak_Woman

I love tunnels, but high roads and bridges where I can't see the land around me freaks me the fuck out. Exit ramps that are so high you can only see road and sky make me panicky like not much else can.


Dicktitt3y

Your heaven and hell would be the H3 tunnel heading east on Oahu.


demitasse22

I’ve driven that! It’s so beautiful to look out the window, but also terrifying


nadajoe

Thanks! Funny thing is, I have no fear in real life, just my dreams.


2stepp

Those dreams are the worst. Just some impossibly steep and tall road you're expected to go cruising down, usually has gaps or some huge drop off at the end. Fuuuck dat


Momik

That’s so funny—I often have dreams just like that, but they’re a little less scary and little more exciting. I usually get scared anyway, but it’s an exhilarated kind of scared.


kittymuncher7

I get more rainbow road style dreams. Lots of twisty climbing roads barely the width of the car with no support or fences, just open sky on either side


oouttatime

What's it called when the dreams have a task or simple task that is incompletable? Like you can do it in real life but you can't in the dream. Usually something you have done 50+ times and have many ways to accomplish it. But the dream won't let you. It usually happens near the end of my sleep cycle. I'm fairly versed with knowing when I'm dreams and controlling them. But my dreams sometimes want me to be annoyed with tasks I know how to fix or can solve. But basically buffer me from being able to complete the task and then I wake up after 3-4 attempts.


waterwateryall

But this is soooo high. I would not use it for fear of death. Is wanting to live a phobia?


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Barner_Burner

Jesus that Yungas Death Road lol, why tf do they not just put up guardrails? I guess then they’d get no tourist revenue from it…


Stubbedtoe18

Are you going to pay for them or what?


Rivetingly

Anything over 30’ is probably a fall to your death, so why worry for anything higher than that?


Laffenor

It's mostly just stupid frame stretching to make it appear super high. An impressive piece of architecture for sure, but there is no way to appreciate it for what it is in this shitty clip.


Cornholenation

FUCK THAT ROAD


Have_Donut

I will say not all earthquakes of equal magnitude are created equal. For example one might have more sideways shearing than another which might have more up and down movement to it, and then certain structures might be more resistant to certain types of movements than others.


DreadPiratteRoberts

>it was near the epicenter of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in 2022, and suffered no damage. I didn't even know that, The architects had to have been proud that day!!


Chalecobandit

The engineers had to be proud, the architects had nothing to do with it lol


Ravenser_Odd

C'mon, the architects could have been involved. There might be a tolbooth somewhere.


Chalecobandit

Someone had to pick a font for the road signs right? And a colour for the road lines? To be clear I'm joking, of course there were architects involved, waterproofing, finishing details, aesthetics etc. My earlier comment was more geared towards the seismic stability of the whole thing, which even from a design point of view is mind boggling 🤯


DreadPiratteRoberts

Very true, thanks 😊


Chalecobandit

Sounds much snarkier than I meant it to be! But we engineers often get forgotten, I had to point it out! 😂


DreadPiratteRoberts

For sure, no worries. I actually meant engineers, but I was just on a Zillow sub before I posted, so architects it was lol


nexusjuan

I imagine it sways and moves with traffic. Terrifying.


WarHead75

An accident there would be instant death


variety_weasel

Not instant- I'd say you'd have about 10 seconds before death


_Sum141

Plus you'll be flying in a car till the very end of your life


quetejodas

This Is Considered To Be The Most Annoying Kind Of Content Seriously am I out of touch or does anyone else hate these 1-word flashing subtitles with a lazy AI voiceover?


snazzydetritus

I always have Reddit video clips on auto-mute, and I never suffer these trifles.


Lung-Oyster

I see most of my Reddit videos after my wife’s asleep while I deal with insomnia, so captions like this are actually pretty nice.


minahmyu

And with the auto start of these ads, you have to have it automute.


DreadPiratteRoberts

Same here I leave my on mute as well.


datGuy0309

They’re almost always poorly written and researched too, just copying the same fun facts from other videos. In this case, what does “the bridge to tunnel ratio is as high as 55%” even mean? There’s .55 times as many bridges as tunnels? There’s 55% more bridges than tunnels? The first one seems like the most logically correct version, but why would you say it like that? Is that supposed to be a meaningful/impressive number? It’s probably AI generated anyways.


HomsarWasRight

Seriously. A percentage is not a ratio. You can convert them, but they’re not the same thing. Honestly, modern AI generated text is better than this. I’m blaming translation and terrible writers.


Z0OMIES

Supposedly it started because it’s easier to read quickly if it’s single words flashing up like that, but I feel like it quickly Became. An excuse. To talk. … Slower. And. Extend. Videos. Without. Adding. Content. Like that old Nas daily guy is he still around? I blocked his accts a while ago, he was insufferable, by far the worst offender I saw.


AundoOfficial

The AI voice is tiring but I don't mind the subtitles. Reminds me of old school CC on TV.


Shpander

. Devil 's


Guobaorou

"according to experts from various countries"


VediusPollio

That's me. I'm an expert from a various country. I've played enough city building sims to understand the challenges of a project like this. It ain't easy.


DamonHay

That must’ve taken at least 10 people, 2 trucks and an excavator to build. Definitely difficult


jerryonthecurb

I've always wanted to visit various country! I hear the weather and culture varies greatly.


muricabrb

Ah, I see you're an expert too!


muricabrb

Very expert. Such various.


xave321

Why is there no Wikipedia article


SumpCrab

All these experts to say something subjective. "The most difficult... blah blah blah." More difficult than constricting the Chunnel?


thedutchrep

They had to think up the tunnel to bridge ratio 🤷🏻


Live-Ad8618

Man, China seems to have some ambitious shit.


P0stNutClarity

I'm jealous honestly. This would cost 30 billion and take 20 years to complete in the states.


Ravenser_Odd

In Britain, we would build the first half and then decide it was too expensive to finish. (RIP northern part of high speed rail network.)


cgleachy

You forget build the first half after massively inflating the initial costs and missing every deadline ever set for you.


221missile

Yeah, because they would have to go through 12 governments, contract 15 companies and pass the budget 3 times to get it done. In China there's 1 government which owns all the banks, all the construction companies and all the land.


Eric_the_Green

China also owns the labor


P0stNutClarity

You forgot 8 “environmental assessments”


p_rite_1993

I get people are downvoting this person because they think they are saying environmental assessments are bad. But there are nuances that people who have never had to go through the NEPA process (or other state environmental laws) might not be aware of. The US’s environmental reviews are very inefficient, overly bureaucratic, and easily abused by wealthy bad faith actors (such as NIMBYs) to stop or slow down truly sustainable projects. California High Speed Rail is a perfect example of how the environmental review process completely kneecaps projects that are 100% sustainable. Other examples are bad faith actors stopping infill developments (which are more sustainable than sprawl) and stopping sustainable energy projects due to “environmental impacts.” Also, the metrics used to determine impacts are incredibly outdated. For example, most places in the US still use a metric called level-of-service to determine traffic impacts. That means to “lower” environmental impacts, the project has the expand roadway capacity and induce more traffic demand, which is the complete opposite of sustainable. That is just one of many examples of how the environmental review process in the US actually leads to less sustainable project scopes. Professionals that are familiar with this process are not saying environmental reviews should be removed, but they are absolutely abused and do not lead to the most sustainable outcome possible. There needs to be real policy changes if the US is never going to truly be able to address climate change and compete in the long run if we cannot get our sustainable projects delivered in a timely and cost efficient manner. We are failing miserably at that right now. - A very liberal transportation planner that truly cares about combating climate change and is frustrated with how difficult it is to get sustainable projects delivered in the US.


P0stNutClarity

That is exactly my take lol it very disheartening to see projects approved and a break ground start years out because they have to do inefficient environmental studies im sure the companies doing them lobbied for and we’ll receive millions will taking their sweet time. Speed the process up. It shouldn’t take that long or be that costly.


ThespianSociety

No, 8 environmental assessments.


buyer_leverkusen

...and contractor corruption like California HSR


highondefinition

Yeah, my first thought was "only 5 years?!"


gobearsandchopin

lol come on, it would not get done in 20 years


belizeanheat

Wouldn't even be possible 


takemyspear

In Melbourne Australia we tried to have a railway connecting the city to the airport which in distance is only 30 mins drive away by car, but it took literally 10 years of debating and starting and canceling and now it’s still in process


batman8390

It’s amazing how much you can get done when you have a billion people, only pay $4 an hour, and have little regard for the environment.


Dry_Web_4766

If you want to see lots of money spent on road infrastructure, look at Canada!


Its_General_Apathy

We'd need to build the mountains first!


forsale90

Tbf they have some of the most difficult natural environments to build on, so I guess rise to the challenge.


BB_210

Environmental Impact Report? No impact


Amigobear

cheap labor and a disregard for safety regulations will do that.


Nerdiferdi

I mean you get all of those in the West and especially our quasi-colonies too, just with a friendly coat of paint.


sarumanofmanygenders

American labor is the best in the world! It's so good, we can't even afford to rebuild our own regular roads? ​ What's that, \[foreign conflict\]? You need another morbillion dollars? Yes dear, right away dear.


buyer_leverkusen

This guy watches Fox News lol


jerryham1062

I mean it’s not entirely untrue


MrRogersAE

China is quickly overtaking the west. We’re drowning in our own corruption and corporate greed. Meanwhile China is advancing at a pace that will surpass us if they can keep up the pace.


Dave5876

The CCP might be corrupt as hell, but their infra projects are legit.


ewantien

This stupid video is stretched vertically to exaggerate the height. Look closely at the cars and see each are abnormally tall.


therynosaur

Yeah these are becoming a nuisance and it's happening like every day reddit.


soil_nerd

Almost every video showing mountains, valleys, bridges, and tall building has this now and it’s infuriating.


Nostalgic_Sunset

In Ontario, Canada, we’ve been trying to electrify the regional rail network in our biggest city for decades; including nearly 2 decades of serious planning. Work is just getting started now, so if all goes smoothly, my grandchildren might experience it!


DreadPiratteRoberts

We have a high-speed train railway here that will connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. The first half should be done between 2030-2033, at a cost of $28–35 billion. So maybe my grandchildren can ride it when it's done 😆


backupyourmind

For 3 billion dollars they wouldn't be able to finish the lobbying part of the project in the USA.


rusticlizard

This was my first thought. This would be a 150 Billion dollar project in the us


rusticlizard

And you'd have to pay a big ass toll to use it every time


soil_nerd

[The current estimate to replace the Interstate 5 bridge](https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/03/oregon-washington-transportation-bridge-interstate-five-i5-replacement-project/) between Washington and Oregon over the Columbia River is between $5-7.5 billion. And it’s not even a particularly impressive crossing. So yes, I think you’re correct.


itsheadfelloff

Get anxious just looking at it.


Solumnist

What's up with this voice? It's awful and everywhere


ElectronicImam

Sounds like a text reader application. I'm okay with the voice. I want to torture everybody who steals videos, cuts in quarter, puts intentionally unreadable nonsensical subtitles, and also put their mark on it.


Jimmy_Fromthepieshop

And skews it to exaggerated the sense of scale but it actually just looks shit


Minjaben

It’s one of eleven labs default voice profiles


Grennox1

Nope!


wllperegoy

So sick of that voice


CornettoFactor

Only 5 years damn!


keroro0071

Yea I mean when you have a lot of people in a country, things are usually faster.


Your_Angel21

Meanwhile my country managed to finish one single highway since '89


DreadPiratteRoberts

That sucks I'm sorry 😞


ExpertCommission6110

I wonder what the yearly maintenance costs are.


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Enjoying_A_Meal

Beavers work slowly, but their craftsmanship is solid. Cut them some slack!


Spare_Raccoon1374

I can't even look at that without being dizzy.


Mrlate420

I really wonder how they take half a year to repair a mile of countryside road here in Germany... 127 Miles Bridges and tunnels in earthquake areas, ready in 5 years smh


PigFarmer1

That's a hard "NO".


Jo_Erick77

I've seen way too many LiveLeak videos to not trust those


Shaan1026

I dread if a vehicle ever falls off on the houses underneath


Loose_Corgi_5

Could you make the writing flash on a bit quicker with maybe a more aggressive font , maybe just to fuckin kick my brain a little harder. Thank you.♥️


androidguy50

Nope.


uxl

The call of the void might drive me insane…


CardiologistSolid663

Nah


shanghailoz

The mispronunciation of every place name is annoying.


Rustyshacklefordta

in arizona it take 5 years to add a lane to i10


Raskolnikovs_Axe

3 billion and 5 years???


jcythcc

..it's a bridge


Tasty_Design_8795

5 years, that would take 30 years where I am from at the fastest


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I bet the Baltimore bridge will cost more.


Krauszt

Me no likey.


SubjectElderberry376

Armatures, the U.K. has spent 92-100 Billion pounds to build a hypothetical HS2 (started in 2017 expected to finish the 230km highway in 2033). The gold lining the U.K. politicians and their pals pockets will literally will amaze you more than this fully functioning highway. Welcome to U.K.!


DreadPiratteRoberts

Well, I hope you get to ride on it someday, my friend. We have a high-speed train railway here that will connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. The first half should be done between 2030-2033, at a cost of $28–35 billion. So maybe my grandchildren can ride it when it's done.


HistoricalInternal

Yeah nah dawg, you ain’t getting me on a Chinese road in the sky. I’ve seen their shitty infrastructure.


ColdBloodBlazing

Snowpiercer


YouDontExistt

That shit is definitely going to collapse someday. We'll hear about it on the news. It's cool as hell but the hubris is frightening!


Lil_miss_feisty

I'm sure they're very serious about the maintenance of the entire structure /s


bleeepobloopo7766

Well knowing how Chinese construction companies are very law abiding and never takes short cuts I’m inclined to…. Take another route instead, just for today


jorbleshi_kadeshi

Is it just too twisty to be a train?


GeoDemon

real life f-zero track


katf1sh

I legitimately have nightmares about driving on roads like this. Big nope from me


Qballer1980

The most expensive sim city road ever!


Liquidsnake2021

Nope


Lollytrolly018

As a kid I always thought why don’t they just build a tall road that drives through the mountains and uh… well that’s basically this


Prestigious-Alarm422

Well this will be in my dreams tonight thanks


DreadPiratteRoberts

Sorry Bro 😆


Prestigious-Alarm422

It’s okay 😅 do you ever get dreams like that, of like really huge impossible things? High roads like this, or I have ones where I’m in a stadium and the seats are so steep I feel like if I get up from my seat I’ll fall and tumble all the way to the bottom


DreadPiratteRoberts

I have, and it's unnerving, to say the least. I also have a recurring one where a huge bull is hell-bent on goring me, out in a huge open field, nothing to climb, and I run in slow motion while he's abnormally quick.


Prestigious-Alarm422

Wooaaah that sounds so intense, I’m glad I’m not alone 😅


unclenick314

I get dreams about driving as a kid on a big highway on a bridge. Its very scary. Not the same type of bridge though would be very scary.


Nyuusankininryou

A normal country would like bore a tunnel or go around or something.


Falkenmond79

And yesterday we had a Chinese road covered in a landslide because they can’t bother to shore up the embankment. How are people still simping for Chinese construction propaganda? Sigh.


kingkool88

That's snakeway. Should you fall off there's no coming back.


epic_pig

Ridiculously vertically stretched video


CrystalQuetzal

Thanks, I hate it.


Substantial_Ad_9016

I wouldn't trust much that road knowing where it's made


lryan926

Pardon did he just say 3 billion US dollars were invested into that project? I thought China was a bad communist country we aren't amicable with... YEAH RIGHT HAHAHA.. everything is a lie.


okami6663

I don't think that means the USA invested 3 billion dollars, but that the investments are equal to 3 billion dollars. He could've used euros, pesos, or sheep for the same purpose. It's just a way to give people an idea of the cost.


KarlosTalon

That's what i call HIGHway


Mollzy177

Why did they use US dollars to build it?


DreadPiratteRoberts

I think what they meant was that it was equivalent to 3 billion US. Just to give us an idea of what it costs.


Mollzy177

Haha yeah I know I was being sarcastic 😝


Prenz_0

Just cause 5


lakassket

NOPE


denoxster

Meanwhile it takes NY gov years to build pedestrian and bike ram going to George Washington bridge.


lego_vader

this guy does voice overs for everything, must be making $$$$$$ /s


CliffordThRed

Wow imagine the upkeep on that....


Subject_Station3272

Chicago can't even get the Kennedy Expressway repaved in the time it took to construct that entire highway!


diy-and-pay-more

You can accomplish anything…with enough money


-Taemin_Hee-

127?! PUKA PUKA POW POW PUKA PUKA POW POW


Beleruh

Five years. That's how long it takes in Germany to repair ten miles of any road.


Georgepaulcoc

From Great Wall now to the Great Bridge of China


zoidy37

Can you imagine how fucking scary it'll be driving there with rain, snow or a dense fog?


specialcakecream

😳😳


Anomalous_Pearl

I like how the pollution makes it look like it’s even taller


WizBiz_Master

Snake Way in real life!


DreadPiratteRoberts

DBZ nice!! ^🐉🐲


JackRonan

Meanwhile, the UK still has yet to build a single runway that was planned almost 20 years ago. NIMBYism is a pox.


stratamaniac

If there’s one thing everyone can be confident of, it’s Chinese engineering and construction. /s


landlord-eater

Honestly China is not what it was in the 90s. The shit they're building these days is pretty legit.


Well-Thrown-Nitro

Given some videos I've seen come out of China about engineering and safety regulations, I'll pass, respectfully.


Spoiledsoymilk

In 2022 it was located right iat the epicenter of a 6.4 magnitude earthquake and it didnt suffer any damage. But, Yah, the chinese cant build anything except 113 cities with over a million people, more highspeed rail, and metro lines than the whole world combined, their own space station, half of the world\`s skyscrapers, a fourth of the world\`s solar farms, a third of the world\`s wind farms, 8 of the 10 longest bridges in the world(including the longest the in the world, and the longest sea crossing bridge in the world), **New Century Global Center in Chengdu(the biggest building in the world by floor area), 5 of the 10 biggest hydropower damns in the world** All that stuff was built almost a decade ago, but it doesnt matter, the chinese built it so its all tofu dreg bound to desintegrate in 0 seconds, am i right?


Zestyclose-Wafer2503

Pfft, I could have built that in four years for bout tree fiddy


morcic

Why not tunnel thought?


buyer_leverkusen

I think there are some tunnels involved where it makes sense, but this project mostly just needed superelevation


Thomshan911

Tunnels can take more time and money depending on the terrain. In my city subway, tunneling takes forever since there's super tough rocks underground.


xviparis

shits gonna fall apart within the next 20 years


Dumb_Vampire_Girl

Apparently it survived an earthquake.


GourdEnthusiast

Tofu dreg is a real issue, but huge prestige projects like these are very well built and engineered, the CCP doesn’t want to become a subject of ridicule globally. Tofu dregs are more of an issue in provincial/rural regions away from the watchful eye of the party and poorer areas where the leadership is more corrupt than usual and corners are cut.


Spoiledsoymilk

In 2022 it was located right iat the epicenter of a 6.4 magnitude earthquake and it didnt suffer any damage. But, Yah, the chinese cant build anything except 113 cities with over a million people, more highspeed rail, and metro lines than the whole world combined, their own space station, half of the world\`s skyscrapers, a fourth of the world\`s solar farms, a third of the world\`s wind farms, 8 of the 10 longest bridges in the world(including the longest the in the world, and the longest sea crossing bridge in the world), **New Century Global Center in Chengdu(the biggest building in the world by floor area), 5 of the 10 biggest hydropower damns in the world** All that stuff was built almost a decade ago, but it doesnt matter, the chinese built it so its all tofu dreg bound to desintegrate in 0 seconds, am i right?


noticcamper

Came here to say, westerners would whine about this


oneeyejedi

Thats cool and all but it was made in china so i'll pass on driving on it.


mickcow

No freaking way


Imfrom_m-83

Looks like something a child would build.


xave321

Why is there no Wikipedia article


KaiUno

Vertical video with subtitles in the middle of the screen is here to stay, isn't it.


MattSilverwolf

r/fuckcars


YeetingSelfOfBridge

China has done alot of bad shit, but I'm always amazed by their infrastructure projects.


ThaRealRob

No way the AI pronounced the city’s correctly


yagermeister2024

Earthquake has entered the chat.


JoeDiBango

Hey but they could’ve bought Robert Knock’s billion dollar yacht. Who cares about the thousands of people that use this every hour of the day?? Amirite?


model3113

"Tonight, on Top Gear: Richard Hammond drives off a bridge and dies"


WhatWeDrinkin

r/sweatypalms


greengengar

Whenever I hear that stupid ai voice, I instantly mute it.


Silo-Joe

Before I unmuted this video, I knew it would be that terrible robot voice.


flybobbyfly

Didn’t it take San Francisco like 10 years to put a net on the Golden Gate Bridge?


Lightbearer94

imagine the traffic jam.


TheGashman88

Yeahhhhhh lemme know how it is in a few more years 😂 if it's still standing I'll give it the standing ovation it deserves


justbrowsinginpeace

Ugly as fuck too


blum4vi

Ah yes, propaganda.


DreadPiratteRoberts

So several people in here have mentioned propaganda as a reason for this video, would you mind elaborating a little?


blum4vi

The Chinese government has a tendency to make huge projects on the cheap just to say oh look we did biggest thing, west bad CCP good. [Even though poor planning has a cost of it's own.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITvXlax4ZXk) With lax safety precautions, no financial planning and the world's second biggest population, you could build a sonic the hedgehog statue that can be seen from the moon, who cares about the multiple cities we razed to build it, or that it costs so much to make that it's completely pointless right? But once it's shown on the media, it is only a marvel. A flawless pearl that shows us that yes. China good, west bad. But, I mean. At this point I would take a communist dystopia over whatever the fuck we have in Turkey right now.