To connect the island of Shikoku with its 3.6 million inhabitants, to the mainland, a complex of three massive bridge complexes were built in the 90s. As much as three route were built because the island is made up of four geographically isolated city areas, and three of them wanted their own bridges. The total cost of the three bridges was 3 trillion yen. Does this kind of waste of tax money happen in your country?
To connect the island of Shikoku with its 3.6 million inhabitants, to the mainland...
The island looks like this.
Does this kind of waste of tax money happen in your country?
Yeah, and the funniest part is that the infrastructure never gets built but the money still gets thrown around.
Be grateful.
What project specifically are you talking about? HSR in California?
By the way, the westernmost route can also be crossed on foot or by bicycle, and is worth visiting as the scenery is excellent. If you come here, consider visiting places like this instead of Kyoto which is suffocated with gaijins.
they build this uni&campus and bridge on a fucking island only to flex with $4b stealing half in the process only to it get get ghosted becuase no one give a shit about far east, young people leave the country or move to capital.
They ought to make a fourth bridge to connect those two peninsulae in the west.
Russky bridge? This is indeed a good example to be compared.
Great insight. There have been plans like that in the past, even plans to use it to connect the east and west with high speed rail.
HSR in California?
One of the biggest examples but there are plenty of others.
Hell, there was a project in Boston to renovate a single tunnel system that cost more than your entire elaborate interbay bridge complex (one of which included the longest suspension bridge ever built at the time) and took 25 years from 1982 to 2007.
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big dig
I have heard of the project where a bad epoxy caused some problems.
wait until they build bridge to the fucking sakhalin wasting 10B$ on it.
catering to your population is bad because.... it just is okay
Here's another fun one, more recent too
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And here's a little Obama-era one
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It would be fine if many people used it, but in the case of the bridge on left, only about 13000 vehicles pass over it each day.
what is money laundering
Thanks I have never heard of them.
That would be a spectacle for outsiders like me, but a financial fiasco for tax payers.
so only 4 745 000 vehicles yearly
what a waste of money
only about 13000 vehicles pass over it each day
The National Park is super cool though
you only should build bridges if they will be overflowing with traffic
isn't money laundering easier on financial market?
easier on financial market
Well yeah, the market IS money laundering
It seems a bit odd to simply multiply the number of vehicles passing through each day by the number of days, since most of the vehicles passing through each day are probably the regular ones. Also, even without this bridge, people can travel smoothly to and from the mainland using the middle bridge, and the strait is also connected by ferries.
They've spent €300,000,000 on a metro for Dublin to date, literally nothing has been built.
It is indeed, its one of the most scenic place here, so more gaijin tourists should consider visiting. Picrel is my hometown.
white men are coming, they love parks and nature
Seriously I find it really funny when people from Japan/China/SK/Taiwan are all "could you believe the government here spent 50 billion dollars to build bridges, roads, and railways and modernize the train systems?" while Western governments spend the money, don't build the infrastructure, and then call you racist if you point it out.
People of all color are welcomed here.
It lowers my blood pressure a little to think that similar waste of money is taking place in other countries.
Picrel is my hometown.
Dang, looks eaxctly like a shot from Suzume.
I grew up in a similarly scenic area with tons of islands so I can relate a little bit (picrel).
more gaijin tourists should consider visiting
I wanted to hike in Aokigahara and check out all the stuff around Lake Biwa when I was going to visit Tokyo for the Olympics, but that never happened :(
Now everyone and their mother here is going to Japan and ruining it, so I plan on going to Taiwan instead given it's very similar and there's virtually no Americans shitting up the place there.
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Construction cost NT$280 billion (US$9.4 billion)
Status Mothballed
til the DPP is anti-nucelar
Holy shit lmao, does their retardation know no bounds? Have they not seen what happened to Germany?
it's even more funny if you realise how much money goes to social benefits or pensions
one month of making sure old boomers don't die is equivalent to designing and building a modern nuclear power plant here in poland
and guess how many of those we have
picrel
Very nice. Looks super comfy.
Most of the tourism related trouble happening here is in famous tourist spots like Kyoto and Mt.Fuji, so it's a great idea to feature places like the ones you mentioned. Aokigahara is stereotyped as a "suicide spot," but it's actually a rare environment with an almost completely intact virgin forest. Lake Biwa is also a very nice place.
taipeitimes.com
May 18
Nation’s last remaining nuclear reactor shut down
world-nuclear-news.org
May 21
Referendum proposed for restart of Taiwan's Maanshan nuclear power plant
Politics here is a joke
KMT is not pro-nuclear btw, they are just contrarian
how much money goes to social benefits or pensions
TBF in places like Japan or China they have the same issues, they just run massive Greece-tier deficits and don't give a shit (it's starting to catch up with Japan atm and SK/China is considered a ticking time bomb); in the West it's even worse because you have both Boomers AND migrants soaking up the gibs, while in America you have both of those AND support to niggers/injuns/women.
Being young and White/European is basically a financial death sentence because you're paying off everyone else.
Are you a japanese or a nepali?
The big dig was a massive success and completely transformed Boston, retard. It wasn't "renovating a single tunnel" it was building a tunnel from scratch to fully replace a terrible highway system. We need more infrastructure projects like it.
How come you think so?
No one really cares about visitors being whether white/brown/black here tbqh.
There are only old people in these areas and they're very rude to foreigners
only old people
Somewhat true
very rude to foreigners
Not the case
people can travel smoothly to and from the mainland using the middle bridge,
I dunno, seems like a big detour for someone that wants to go from the easternmost urban area on the island to the eastern urban area on the mainland.
Also focusing all of the traffic on only one bridge would cause congestion in the cities on both sides, and if anything happened to the bridge it would block all traffic altogether. It's always good to have redundancy
I'm more suprised that there is still no bridge between Shikoku and Kyushu.
The plan itself has been around for a long time, but it has never been built because it is simply not economically viable.
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and what do you do in shikoku? fish?
The cities along the strait all have similar industrial structures, such as steel, shipbuilding, machinery, and chemicals, so there is not much economic incentive to connect any two cities by the shortest distance, and if necessary, a few hours can be added to the travel time by highway. There are also ferry routes, so there is no problem with transporting bulky goods.
In terms of redundancy, there are certainly benefits to having multiple bridges. However, sometimes all the bridges are closed due to snowfall, and in that case, ferries become necessary. Some criticize that having three bridges reduces the number of ferries, which actually reduces redundancy
We need more infrastructure projects like it.
Multibillion projects that cost nearly 200% more than expected, take nearly two decades longer than expected to complete, and are specific only to individual cities
Are you a Democrat by chance?
Politics here is a joke
It's tragic and bizarre how retarded Taiwan's politics are given how precarious the location is. Nuclear power should be one of those issues that has universal consensus there.
Very nice. Looks super comfy.
It's a place in Minnesota called Lake Minnetonka. It's a glacial lake West of Minneapolis (famous for being referenced in many Fitzgerald books/stories and for being where Prince baptizes Apollonia in Purple Rain) that has a ton of peninsulas and islands on it and is known for being one of the old money richfag areas of the state that attracts a ton of tourism.
I lived on the big main island with the bridge on it called Phelps Island, which is very unique in that it has a strict and nearly third-world class divide between the super rich coast and the eccentric, gritty, working-class interior (where I lived/grew up).
Aokigahara is stereotyped as a "suicide spot," but it's actually a rare environment with an almost completely intact virgin forest
Yeah everything I've seen from it is incredibly gorgeous even when compared to similar American locales.
If you ever do want something similar in the states, be sure to check out Olympic National Park. It's the same thing only it's a virgin temperate rainforest and it's massive (nearly 1500 square miles). I had a Jap buddy in the FFL who visited there and loved it because it was basically all the best outdoor areas of Hokkaido and Honshu in miniature.
There is hope because that study is already 2 decades old. I mean you finished shinkansen line between Honshu and Hokkaido just fine.
But you do need people to use it to become feasible so make more children i guess.
Its just like visiting a random island in the Mediterranean.
Hey, thanks for the detailed info. I appreciate it.
But we can't forgive the Russian violation to Ukraine.
Isn't Japan the country in the world outside of Ukraine that has the most negative opinion towards Russia?
You guys are an outlier for sure given your chuds are the ones that hate Russia.
What happens if there's an earthquake?
Good point. These bridges are designed to withstand the largest earthquakes and typhoons that can be expected. In fact, the longer the bridge, the more it can absorb changes in the terrain caused by earthquakes, so these long bridges are surprisingly resistant to earthquake. The easternmost bridge of the three routes had the distance between the main legs extended by one meter to 1991m after the 1995 earthquake.
The two towers were originally 1,990 m (6,530 ft) apart, but the Great Hanshin earthquake on January 17, 1995 (magnitude 7.3, with epicenter 20 km west of Kobe) moved the towers (the only structures that had been erected at the time) such that the central span had to be increased by 1 m (3.3 ft).