London's $20 Billion Plan for High Speed Rail, Explained
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- čas přidán 28. 03. 2022
- London is currently building the largest infrastructure project Europe has ever seen, and its not going exactly as planned. After being first proposed in 1989, Crossrail had planned to ease traffic congestion surrounding London, and build a series of underground tunnels under the city. While the plan seemed great from the drawing board, it would take the government another 10 years just to come up with a feasible plan to get the project off the ground. But after years of construction and missing the targeted 2018 completion date, Crossrail is Over Budget, and Behind Schedule.
As of writing this video, only a very small portion of the rail line is functioning as the rest of the project has a goal of being completed by fall of 2023. Along with the new rail line, Cross London Rail Links has designed an all new start of the art Train called Class 345. While Crossrail may seem like an engineering failure, it will be a staple in London's history as one of the largest projects in the city's history.
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I spent a lot more time on the editing and animations so I hope you enjoyed the video!
The video was amazing. Its sad that these videos dont get that much attention. I hope you keep on doing videos because they are on the same level as OBF, Reallifelore or B1M. Good job
Yes the editing and Animation was great and you are doing a great job. but if you can please make a bit long videos. I appreciate you hardwork.
Bad video
It's really good, nice work. Just wondering what's the average view duration and cpm?
How much time did editing took?
No disrespect, but this is an incredibly odd video. Crossrail is indeed a few years late and over-budget, but it's an incredible engineering achievement, and the constant suggestions here that it's a big failure are, plainly, wrong. It'll almost certainly be a huge success at achieving its transport goals.
It's not really over budget, when you account for inflation. It will possibly even come about £100million under budget after inflation
Agreed. By the same standard, is a bad project that's delivered on time a "success"? The effect of Crossrail will be massive, and the moment it opens any delay will be forgotten.
First half of 2022
@@jamesbedford7327 in all honesty id never thought about that.
While its a small issue, the stock footage of Canary Wharf to show "central London" really irked me. It kind of shows a lack of understanding of London and by extension, Crossrail.
It’s not a failure at all, a little behind schedule but definitely not a “failure”
Agreed, the future investment opportunity and capacity upgrade is significant, yes a little overbudget and a few years behind schedule but the end product looks really good and hoping for great additions to its potential.
If you listen to the video, you will realise it took the government more time to make up its mind, than the project did! A bit like Wembley Stadium 10 years of talking and then expecting to be built in two years!!!!!
@@johnchristmas7522 yes, that's a bit...
Like in France.
For us, the RER had the same effect in 1969. It was expensive, very expensive (cathedral stations, superimposed RER D and A stations, and the Chatelet les Halles multipole built from the outset) and opened in sections: -1969 was the first and it was the Boissy branch of the line
-then in 1970, the La Defense-Etoile section
- then one station under Paris after another until 1977)
Originally, we thought large, and a high attendance was expected and everything was sized according to that.
In the end, the RER A was a monstrous success, which exceeded the attendance forecasts in 1987, and which had to be doubled by line 14 and the RER E (still being extended) to prevent it from exploding.
I welcome Crossrail, London's first RER.
I work on Crossrail, and yeah, it’s over budget and late but it’s certainly not an engineering failure. In fact all of the tunnelling and engineering work was completed on time - what’s caused the biggest delay is the integration of various signalling and software systems the trains use. The trains pass through different areas each covered by different signalling systems (ECTS, TPWS and CBTC) and the integration of these is what’s caused the headache. Also, all of the stations are now complete and have been handed over to Transport for London (excluding Bond Street). The central core section of the Elizabeth Line connecting Paddington and Abbey Wood will open in the next few months, allowing trains to finally run under central London. Finally, the whole system will be connected East to West by 2023 - can’t wait for this! Well worth the cost imo!
What a fantastic workplace!
Im looking forward to see it in Operation.
Will finally give you what we have in Germany for many years already in multiple cities 😉 (although the stations in london are a bit bigger, but mainly because of the long tunnels needed to connect to the tube)
It does seem a bit of a downer video
If he had to commute on the central line, he'd be begging for crossrail, worts and all.
Appreciate the work you done, can't wait for it to be fully operational.
@@AndrewRenton i agree
I’m really excited for the project to complete really appreciate your works over at crossrail
"The infrastructure is largely outdated" That's a sweeping generalisation that is also incorrect. The infrastructure may be old - London was the largest city in the world in the C19th when much of the railway and early tube lines were created - but since the 90s there has been significant investment to modernise the tube, line extensions have opened, the DLR has grown to be a major light rail system in its own right, and a new tram system has opened in South London. The Overground rail network has been created from repurpose and disused lines, and several of the great central London termini, always built to serve a high capacity, have been modernised. Over a million people travel into Central London every day, and there are up to 5 million single journeys on the tube. There is a very extensive bus network that ensure that 96% of Londoners live within 400m of a bus stop, and buses serve the capital 24/7. The roads are congested, and capacity is constrained by the layout, which has developed in a fairly haphazard and incremental way from Roman times. This is one of the main reasons that public transport is so critical to London. Crossrail will add about 10% to Central London, as well as relieve pressure on major rail interchanges, and it is built to C21st space standards, with capacity for growth in the future. Its success will likely spur the future development of Crossrail 2, which will run SW to NE through the city, and further improve links between suburban centres. So Crossrail is definitely an historic and significant addition to London's infrastructure, but calling the existing network outdated is inaccurate and misleading.
I agree with you, but this video seems to be from an American perspective, which is strange to say the Crossrail was a failure when many big cities in the USA don't have basic public transit. 🥴
Frankly it's amazing how well London's public transport works considering it's past of being cobbled together from multiple company's lines, mergers, and budget cuts. It's one of the busiest with a mix of modern and ancient (by rail standards) infrastructure and yet it works. This new line is definitely needed though and should serve London well for it's future needs. And the new stations are amazing from both an architectural standpoint and lessons learned in passenger movement. Better changeovers, less bottlenecks, more capacity.
Agree, I picked this up on another American channel (OBF) which was effectively describing the public transport here as slow and expensive when in reality it isn’t. definitely poor research at play here
I think he meant the road infrastructure, which is true, since the Ringways were cancelled in the 80s (thank goodness).
spot on!!
Crossrail did no way fail, it is one of London's greatest engineering protect this century. The stations did not cause the delay, but the signalling. It did and is not going to fail.
It’s an incredibly expensive vanity project that is just for London and a couple city’s on the outskirts. There’s never funding for the rest of the countries public transport networks.
@@FateBoost London pays for Crossrail itself and it will be one of the busiest rail lines in the UK. It's not a vanity project. If there's no funding for the rest of the transport network, I must've imagined the massive Metrolink expansion in Manchester, several Scottish rail re-openings, electrification of the Great Western Main Line and the tram extentions in the West Midlands. Want more funding, fine, I'd agree, but to say 'there's never' is bollocks
@@Wasserfeld. When did the Durham or Newcastle or Dalton park last get significant funding?
@@FateBoost Durham has like 2 people bruh. London is the economic heart of the UK, one of the largest cities in europe and the world. Obviously London gets more funding. Its like asking why doesn't some random us town get funding for a subway instead of new york city. Such a dumb argument
@@lik7953 The funding for cross rail works out as more than the rest of the country combined. You do notice there’s 60 million people that don’t live in London, right?
Crossrail/Elizabeth Line isn’t just a tunnel, there are 10 new huge deep level stations with new connecting foot access to existing stations as well, I’ve been to some on public open days, beautiful new stations, very long 240 metre platforms, upgraded access to Heathrow in 2023, many archeological excavations were carried out, thousands of medieval and roman skeletons removed and recorded.
So, you aren't actually in London, and being an American, have probably never visited? (Or left your own country...)
Crossrail is very much not a failure. It's simply running late due to signal complexity and also the pandemic.
It's looking beautiful.
As others have observed, although the bones of our systems are old, we've invested and upgraded. Getting around London is easy. I've no need to own a car.
Keep your uneducated US opinions to yourself.
Yours, a huffy Londoner, looking forward to taking her first LizCrossPurp ride in 6 weeks or so.
In all fairness US failure made crossrail look good
@@qjtvaddict They’d have to build public transport first to make something considered a failure.
@@qjtvaddict us failure doesnt have to make it look good if it already is
@@thegrowl2210 Well, fair enough, but California's attempting to build public transport systems. After we dug up a number of perfectly viable systems in the 50s, here we are in the 21st century trying to get up to the nineteenth century. sigh
Oh my God, as a Londoner (Born and bread) I vehemently disagree with a lot of stuff mentioned on this video! Either a retraction video has to be made, or edit this video accordingly with much-needed updated information! Crossrail has done an amazing job with the Elizabeth line ;and as someone who had the honour of being part of the testing team of engineers as of last week! You can type on CZcams: testing the Elizabeth line or something to that effect and you will see a lot of test engineers as well as CZcamsrs/influencers from London taking a sneak peek at the Elizabeth line
This, there as definitely been a delay, but half of the delay is because they absolutely want to make sure the opening is free of any teething issues, it would be absolutely worse for Crossrail's reputation to open before it's ready and fail within a week, better to delay it and deliver a better product than give critics ammunition to declare the project a failure.
@@G1NZOU Come on, what's a couple of head-ons between friends? We got it done fast!
Couple corrections:
the track has been laid and testing is being done,. bond street is behind but everything else is ready for this year.
the line from reading to paddington is also running its essentially only the central section left to open.
You are correct Daanyaal Khan.
This video seems really poorly researched. I only have a passing interest in Crossrail and even I know the Reading branch is already in place and we're just waiting for the central section.
4:15 “it just needs to be lined with track to be completed.” As you are showing a clip of a train in the new tunnels with tracks. Tracks were laid in 2017/2018
4:35 Yep, Crossrail services ran between Liverpool street and Shenfield since 2016 (taking over from a local operator) and Paddington to Heathrow in 2018 (again taking over from another operator and 2019 for Paddington to Reading services to he handed to TFL from GWR. Abbey wood station has been open since 1849 and the Crossrail refurbishment finished in 2017, not 2021.
Crossrail is opening in 2022, the central core, in which the whole line will be functioning by then. Full integration in stages until 2023. The full integration was supposed to happen in 2020. so actually only 3 years behind schechuled. for the full line.
CROSSRAIL IS NOT A FAILURE. This suggests that no one will use it. Just because its opened late doesn't mean its failed, I hope you're aware of that.
London's existing underground railways are not antiquated. New trains for 4 lines came in in 2010-2015. New trains for Piccadilly line by 2025. Northern Line extension. Bakerloo Line extension, Jubilee Line extension, the BILLIONS TFL have pumped into the system to refurbish, expand and rebuild system. Automatic trains on 8/11 lines. If anything its modern, even for European standards.
At least you didn't call Crossrail a new London Underground line.
POST-OPENING EDIT:
I think its much more heavily used than TfL expected post-pandemic, another reason why Crossrail is not a failure
So many things are wrong with this video
If it was a failure, then why has a new contract been signed for 10 additional units to deal with the over crowding.
As someone who has traveled on both Londons and New Yorks underground system, its very strange you use the word antiqued when referring to londons network. Excluding Crossrail London underground has been extensively upgraded and modernised completely in the last 10years, new air conditioned trains, remodelling of stations, upgraded signaling and many major extensions. I think your video is poorly researched.
I agree, despite some tunnels being very old, the amount of investment of upgrades and modernisation is actually technically better than NYC's subway (which is a fine subway in its own right, not an attempt to knock it). There have been multiple other projects on a scale approaching Crossrail that have been cancelled before in past decades so to try and criticise Crossrail while also calling London's public transit antiqued is a definite contradiction.
I disagree, this is a massive feet of engineering, the stations and trains are excellent and it will help take capacity off the very popular and crowded underground lines. Also it isn’t just a tunnel, dozens of new deep level stations as well as surface stations on existing and brand new lines.
Crossrail may be late but it's an incredibly impressive system with fantastic new stations and station upgrades.
"The infrastructure is largely outdated"
*Laughs in NYC*
Londons overground and underground train infrastructure is up-to-date and very good. Lots of major cities wish they could have something like it.
The Elizabeth Line is brilliant. Opening date 24th May 2022.
Well worth every penny.
It hasn't even opened yet so you can't really call it a failure.
Opening on 24 May 2022
I suggest that if you can, please put the measurements in metric system too for the rest of the world can relate
I will definitely do it in the next video.
@@ArkiveYT thanks ..nice content n keep up the good work
@@ArkiveYT NEXT TIME TRY TO GET IT RIGHT! YOUR COUNTRYMEN ARE FED ENOUGH B/S ALREADY!
@@ArkiveYT If you have to, but its better to stick to common sense, practical measurements, not the rule of 10
@@ArkiveYTThe map on the left side at 2:17 dates from 1942.
Over-budget and overdue? Sure but it's still going to be used heavily for at least 100+ years so... M-E-H!
Not bad considering how overpromise and underdeliver the original quotes for infrastructure projects are + covid
The railways complete, it’s in testing. 2 stations yet to finish but it’s 95% there. There are testing trains running through the core section. Liverpool to shenfield opened 4 years ago!
It's a bit premature to be calling it a failure. Let's see how it does after it actually opens to the public.
if this man thinks London's Tube and Rail infrastructure is outdated, he's never been to NYC where they started accepting contactless payments in 2021 lol
Every engineering project is deemed a "failure" nowadays
This video is really misjudged, and smacks of a lack of wider understanding of the benefits of this kind of project - yes, it's hugely annoying that it's a couple of years late and over budget, but, I guarantee you, no one will care once it's open.
Also, a point of info: most of the line in terms of line mileage is open, not a "very small portion". Aim for better research and less drama in future.
Everyone outside of London and the selected cities served will care.
Creator of this video has never read about London transport. Londons infrastructure is not out of date.
I think we can see where this video is coming from with the opening statement "London's infrastructure is largely outdated".
Not sure when this was written but as of March 2022 all rail, station and signalling infrastructure is complete and tested and are now in shadow operational mode. All stations bar one have been completed and handed over.
This month has seen the last of the emergency testing with hundreds of volunteers being used to vacate a stopped train in a tunnel.
In fact the western end out to Heathrow and eastern ends of the line out to Shenfield have been operational for some years.
As for costs now they are what was budgeted at first but cut back to gain Parliamentary approval. So they were actually accurate!
Failure? No. It is an incredible feat of civil engineering and some of the techniques used to safeguard old buildings and miss all the underground infrastructure while tunnelling are industry leading and now used elsewhere. I would rather it was late than never be built.
I don’t know when you made this but a month ago, all Elizabeth line stations were ready except Bond Street. It was about testing. Now it will officially open in a few days
Fantastic & much needed for London project. Now let's start Crossrail II - North to South.
The central section opens to the public in a week's time, and when you released this video, trains had been running through it for final testing for months, so you're vastly wrong about the timescale. The only station that will be delayed is Bond Street. Crossrail may be late, but it's far from a failure.
Thanks for this comment... I was about to say something about the opening date for the 24th May (and I'll be there!) The bonus (with reference to the "antiquated" term) is that the first stage of the Bank station expansion/enhancement project will have opened the week before, so I'll get to sample both in one go! If you haven't already done so, watch the "Hidden London Hangouts" episode released last night, a sneak preview of the improvements there (and BTW it's a great series for both history and transport enthusiasts alike)
This isn't a failure when it hasn't even been allowed to run yet? The project was overbudget and delayed due to software issues but to categorise it as a failure is very premature and asinine. I worked on this project as well and it's an engineering marvel that Londoners will use more when they realise how good it is at reducing times and travelling with ease.
As Crossrail 2 was mentioned. I can see Crossrail 2 still happen with Crossrail 2 taking over some of the suburban lines in Southwest London and Northeast London. Whilst Crossrail now Elizabeth Line is due to open in late May this year between Paddington-Abbey Wood and later this year between Stratford-Paddington.
The goal wasn't to reduce congestion but more relive pressure on the current Underground lines and increase capacity.
It’s open and working. Can’t understand why you said it failed as it didn’t. All big projects get delayed and overrun budget. Your point is?
I love this channel, but this video seems to miss the mark. Other than what others have said about it already, the first half of the video contained a lot of repetition, I actually thought I had accidentally skipped back a few seconds.
Sorry you feel this way, I will work to improve the videos in the future.
nice video cool information great presentation
Yes over budget and late, Crossrail is still not a failure
Im sure not one single American Dollar was spent on this project.
Innit
If you ever seen any other engineering failure globally, you will not actually use this term to describe the project. In fact, why you cared about the delay and overbudget, is simply because you really want it to be available now. The city do need some form of transformation in terms of transportation. When you get off a modern train from Shenfield to liverpool street and then hop onto the ancient tube, you know you really want the missing portion completed as soon as possible.
Compare it with the new Berlin (BER) airport! The central section is opening on May 24, but it will not be connected to the western and eastern sections which have been running with the new trains for some time. It will not run on Sundays at first, in order to iron out technical problems. Later this year trains will run from both the western and eastern sections into the central core. May 2023 is the date by which there will be trains running the whole way, but this will affect relatively few passengers.
Grand Paris Express has been the largest transport infrastructure project for years. This video needs revision, Crossrail opening mid May 2022 and fully open in 2023. Shows a map of Crossrail 2 but not mentioned?
Completely agree with some commenters here - the true benefits will be felt over the next 30 years. All huge infrastructure projects seem an immense amount of money at the time. We are always taking such a short term view of everything. London's population will increase another 2 million people over the next 25 years and we need the infrastructure to cope with it.
The problem is everyone wants to drive
How can t be a failure when it hasn't started running yet? I guess in the early days many people we go on it just to see,but then when it's running fully it'll be fine. I'm sure the people in Essex wanting to go to Heathrow will make good use.
Elizabeth line started operations in 2015 under the brand name TfLrail which was operated by MTRElizabeth Line and the class 345 aventras entered service in 2017 on the Great Eastern Mainline, then in 2019 on the Great Western Mainline. In 2024 they have now signed a deal for 10 extra units to help deal with the overcrowding on the line.
The opening date is now expected to be around June 2022
Great vid hope you succeed with the channel and it blows up!!
That's a great development!
If we ignore London for a minute, think how much rural bus networks could be improved? Could probably massively expand it and heavily discount it like buses in London.
Problem is no one uses rural buses
DRT is the way forward.
Why would London businesses pay increased business rates for rural bus fares?! Seeing as London taxes already subsides rural bus fares your fantasy scenario is a bit dopey.
@@suburbia2050 Subside them how? It’s still £5 a journey. And people live outside of London. The majority of the country does.
@@FateBoost Taxes taken from London are used to subsidise the rest of the country especially social services like under subscribed rural bus journeys. Maybe those people who make money from making infrastructure expensive or avoid using such services thus making them underfunded should pay for them like suburban mass housing developers, 2nd home owners and car drivers.
How is Londons infrastructure outdated ? We have not only one of the oldest subway systems in the world but also one of best. It’s not perfect but it’s hardly 3rd world as this video suggests and 100 times better than New York. Complete and utter rubbish. I turned this off after 30 seconds. And crossrail was the largest building project in Europe for 5 years plus. Hardly a failure. When North America has built a public transport project like this then come criticise…
Good point
You can’t tell it’s a failure when it hasn’t even started I get where you’re coming from but it’s like 90% done my guy
Thanks for this video, I had no idea this was even in the works, always glad to see other country’s starting to realize the a car centered infrastructure wasn’t a good idea and should’ve brought rail lines to current standards as cities develop, we have a lot of the same issues here in he NYC area
Lmao are you serious?! London built the worlds first underground railway in the 1860s, I think it already knew about the advantages of mass transit systems.. This new line has been built because of congestion of existing Central and jubilee lines not road traffic.
“Bulphan” is not in London, so why is it included in the beginning of your video?
@ 0:44 "Why Crossrail Failed" Sheesh, you really know how to piss off a lot of people with a few words. As a project it was massively ambition from the start; and the complexities of fitting the tunnel into one of the densest urban areas in the world, meant that expensive & time-consuming challenges were inevitable - many of them unforeseeable. However, Crossrail is now a shining jewel of the city's infrastructure, and almost no one wishes it wasn't built. 'Failure' my @r§e.
Just to add on there's about 10 million within the GLA boundary but over 14 million in the metropolitan area (the western part of which Crossrail will dissect)
Calling it a failure before it even opened?
This video is a masterpiece!! 👏👏👏
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It is an absolutely amazing as far as engineering is concerned. As a Londoner, I believe it kind of fell flat on its face though. Trains don’t run as fast as was promised and no continuous East to West train. As for the CR2, I don’t think that’s ever happening.
Crossrail2 is happening the safeguarding for the route has been done, the between Maidenhead and Reading was an extension which was only added on later.
@2:04 that’s the branch off from the great west main line down to Heathrow airport, now used for the Heathrow express and recently defunct Heathrow connect service… that was live and running many years before cross rail was a glint in anyone’s eye?.. always wondered how that was built.
Cost over runs caused by unanticipated problems is the norm on large ambitious projects.
I think cross rail is best tube i have ever ride ...commuting from woowich to heathrew is so much easier. No need to hire taxi and more faster as much half and hour fast. No jam just peace of ride. I would like to give 5 star to purple line.
To be honest Crossrail did not Failed. A lot of safety testing. For the line. To
Make sure safety and track system and Signal works Fully
Rail line: Not even open yet
CZcamsr: ITS A FAILURE
Just wondering, how did they decide that Reading, Shenfield and Abbey Wood would be the terminii of Crossrail? The first two are outside London, but the third is well inside the urban area.
It is all dependent on demand, originally Elizabeth line was only going to go as far as Maidenhead, but it was agreed that it would go to Reading, which required an extra 4 units to be ordered. For the Shenfield side, it was because of it having directly taken over and replaced the Greater Anglia Metro services. Abbey Wood is another terminal because of the connections to the North Kent Line.
Thats the Elizabeth line
Shenfield Reading and Heathrow lines are already pre existing lines
It has actually been a fucking huge success, as any londoner will attest
First half of 2022 Mark Howard said
As crazy as it sounds there's already plans for Crossrail 2 it would be a north south sister line and there is even talk of Crossrail 3 which would give it the look of of something similar to a spider
1:12 Those are maps of proposals for CrossRail2
They are opening the tunnel section within months now. although, only Abbey Wood through to Slough iirc.
can you make a video also about the great transportation masterplan of Istanbul? It doubles the metrolines and ıt would be nice to watch something like it.
Loved the video very well made the cost will be worth every penny over time
An interesting take, including alot of facts but missing most of the nuance which would be obvious for a Londoner. A comparison between this and Geoff Marshall's content shows how poor your understanding of the project is.
"infrastructure is outdated" is very much hyperbole. London boasts of the best public transport systems in the world. You have to look at overall investment in the last 25 years
And not a plan for bike lanes to and from the stations. How is that a plan?
the news articles chosen don't represent a single actual attempt at modernising infrastructure in london, and you show the crossrail 2 map constantly when talking of crossrail 1
It's already is a huge success.
Open in may 2022…
Just for the Platinum Jubilee !!!
The railway was built to take pressure of the Central line, the roads was a new one on me, just an excuse with rising travel costs and the cost of fuel at the pumps, Crossrail might take pressure of the Hammersmith & City and Circle Lines to/from Paddington.
It was designed to take pressure off the central and jubilee lines.
@@suburbia2050 Funny that as the Jubilee Line Crossrail station at Bond Street was not open yet
@@jacksugden8190 well Stratford and canary wharf are the main pressure points for the jubilee line
@@suburbia2050 Waterloo Station may have been another
I’ve been on this!
Not sure if this is the largest infrastructure project in europe (maybe in terms of costs, but not of scope). Paris built the RER A (equivalent to crossrail) in the 1970s and is now completing its 5th line
It was during the time it was being built. Not a hard concept to grasp but I guess if you do insist on taking 3rd rate 3rd party content providers on CZcams...
unless you live in south london
No word on how the different railways being "joined" use entirely different signally systems? The narration is all about failure, or things happening in the future, but much of the video shows the actual trains running on the actual tracks.
Yeah, ETCS + AWS + TPWS + ATP on GWML, CBTC on CCOS and AWS + TPWS on GEML.
Very informative. I thought Crossrail was complete.
Because its not informative at all. Why not get your info from official sources?!
As someone who uses the metric system. What lol
Very odd to say it's a failure
we are very close!!! we just need another billion dollars to finisher her up :b I cannot wait until it opens, great video :D
Get your facts straight bud. Most large infrastructure projects are late and over budget, this doesn’t make it a failure.
Calling it a failure before it has even opened? You sure?
I didn't know kermit the frog narrates....🤔
Hey Arkive can you make a video about Islamabad which is the most beautiful and developed city of Pakistan or gawadar which is considered the new Dubai in the future.
It needs crossrail 2 before 2030s A.S.A.P north to South it be better london undergrounds line ?
I fail to see how unique or innovative Crossrail is.
This kind of project is nothing new.
London is basically doing what Paris has done in 1970s. The RER A of Paris is high capacity line with trains carrying up to 2,600 passengers every 2 minutes in its central core. It was made by connecting former suburban lines with long tunnel under the heart of Paris.
RER A is carrying over 1 million passengers daily.
London is more like a latecomer because this kind of projet have been built in Paris, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan...
London did this in the immediate and post WW2 period, the Central Line expansions are a good example.
@@PsychicLord Not really, it wasn't new huge underground section under the center of the city as the RER A or Crossrail are.
The RER A was a really massive project with huge cavernous stations under Central Paris.
There is an article about Auber, one of the several massive stations built for the RER A in Popular Science of August 1972. Even today, no Crossrail station comes close in scale.
@@FuritokamaLondon first did it with the Snow Hill tunnels in 1860s.
People do some research before posting videos like this next time??
Maybe it's been researched from Geoff Marshall and Jago Hazzard.
It is my impression or I am hearing Reece Martin's voice?
Largest infrastructure developement Europe has ever seen ? Have you missed Grand paris express ?
Americans lol
Also HS2 is larger than Elizabeth line which is 120km from the original plans of Maidenhead and Heathrow Terminal 4 to Abbey Wood to Shenfield. Reading and Heathrow Terminal 5 were extensions at a later date.
just a pipty the originally proposed north western part to Aylsbury wasn't converted and connected.
There is talks of that being an extension.
Why do you keep calling it "a failure"? Truly bizarre comment.
I can understand now why you have such low subscribers.
Your videos are getting better every time! Keep going, you are doing a great job!
I’m not trying to attack you or the creator of this video but this video was not exactly great compared to others. It is rather inaccurate and (probably unintentionally) misinforming.
I do think other Londoners have misinterpreted this video and think it’s being called a failure when it isn’t really doing that.