The $11B Tunnel That Could Save One of Europe’s Busiest Mountain Corridors | WSJ Breaking Ground

Nestled under the Alps and the Italian-Austrian border, the Brenner Base Tunnel is poised to be the longest underground railway connection in the world. The $11 billion megaproject, which has been floated around for centuries, is both a wild engineering feat and a critical project in the EU’s effort to connect itself, known as the Trans-European Transport Network.
This corridor will link ports in Scandinavia to ports in the Mediterranean, as well as connect Germany’s economy with Italy’s.
WSJ explores the opportunities this tunnel will open between the regions and how the EU’s effort to connect itself across borders aims to strengthen its global posture.
0:00 The Brenner Base Tunnel
0:42 How the tunnel will be beneficial
3:07 Cutting freight route times
3:55 Construction sites
4:59 Cost of the megaproject
Breaking Ground digs into megaprojects around the world, uncovering what these developments might mean for the surrounding region and the ultimate costs.
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  • @ebbeb9827
    @ebbeb98277 ай бұрын

    we need more rail infrastructure all over Europe.

  • @awellculturedmanofanime1246

    @awellculturedmanofanime1246

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah sure but its not like you can do it everywhere first its expensive and has to be useful and second it can be harmful environmentally if we built unnecessary railway

  • @eksbocks9438

    @eksbocks9438

    7 ай бұрын

    Austria really is correct on this one. It's not strictly the climate change thing. But all the congestion on one narrow highway. If they can transport this stuff by railway, it would take a lot of pressure off the roads.

  • @KeVIn-pm7pu

    @KeVIn-pm7pu

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@awellculturedmanofanime1246no such thing as unnecessary railway. We have roads everywhere. Roads that are better replaced with rail

  • @isitdatserious

    @isitdatserious

    7 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@awellculturedmanofanime1246okay but roads and cars are not harmful environmentally? Gotcha.

  • @sgritheall163

    @sgritheall163

    7 ай бұрын

    Concrete and steel = tonnes of co2.

  • @ekesandras1481
    @ekesandras14817 ай бұрын

    You didn't mention the most important reason for delay: the unwillingness of Bavaria to construct the connection railroad from the Austrian/Bavarian border to Munich. While most of this work has already been done in Austria and Italy, on the German side they haven't even decided the exact route.

  • @cyberslim7955

    @cyberslim7955

    7 ай бұрын

    German bureaucracy is a monster...

  • @karlheinz4059

    @karlheinz4059

    7 ай бұрын

    its the same here in switzerland. we made a simmilar agreement with germany and italy. there were no probpems with italy but many with germany. the germans make agreements and think the infrastructure will build without doing something. they need to understand that they cant make agreements and then dont honor them. its a shame how terrible germany became in the last 10-15 years.

  • @cyberslim7955

    @cyberslim7955

    7 ай бұрын

    @@karlheinz4059 It's the bureaucracy, totally and utterly overloaded/useless/lazy. The reason, why the economy is tanking!

  • @KeVIn-pm7pu

    @KeVIn-pm7pu

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@cyberslim7955No its not. Its German politicians that Hold it up

  • @cyberslim7955

    @cyberslim7955

    7 ай бұрын

    @@szrew7992 No, has nothing to do with politics, it's the bureaucracy. Germany is officially a third world country because of it's bureaucracy, and only because of it's bureaucracy. I lived abroad over 25 years, now I am back in Germany. OMG! OMG! OMG! Everything is ok, but the bureaucracy is worse than in a third world country! Every country is digitalising, but not Germany. The German bureaucracy is insanely overloaded with laws made by bureaucrats and is completely unwilling to make decisions, because they could legally backfire. Nobody needs to take responsibility for anything anyway, because nobody ever gets fired. If you don't live in Germany and have not lived in other countries before, you have no clue, it is unbelievable. Let me tell you, the Germans live in this bureaucratic stinking mess for so long, they even don't understand how bad it is compare to other countries. So to the outside, it looks like there is a lack of political will, but actually it's the bureaucracy, which is completely unable to push anything through. And this now also shows on the overall economy. So many businesses don't invest in Germany anymore, because of bureaucratic insanity. Search on YT, there are thousands of vids about this.

  • @peterrampitsch8110
    @peterrampitsch81107 ай бұрын

    There are actually 2 other tunnels under construction in Austria: the Semmeringbasistunnel und the Koralmtunnel. The route is from Vienna to Graz and then to Klagenfurt and from there to Italy. This two other tunnels are combined about the same length as the BBT.

  • @justsamoo3480

    @justsamoo3480

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah both Italy and Austria are doing amazing. Italians for example are building an even bigger tunnel to France as well as Valico tunnel which is similar in length to Koralp and Semmering base tunnels.

  • @jhwheuer
    @jhwheuer7 ай бұрын

    And this an example of a project that only stable democracies can really do. Carefully integrated in the environment, based on actual financials, and without grandiose, and ultimately counter-productive, deadlines. Steady, dependable, almost boring work of a subtle sophistication.

  • @cityuser

    @cityuser

    7 ай бұрын

    "Almost" boring? I would say the vast majority of the work is to bore!

  • @greenrico10

    @greenrico10

    7 ай бұрын

    Ever heard of China

  • @TheDubaiNavigator

    @TheDubaiNavigator

    7 ай бұрын

    In China this tunnel would have been completed in 1/5 the time for ⅓ the cost.

  • @jhwheuer

    @jhwheuer

    7 ай бұрын

    @@TheDubaiNavigator crashed in two year, would have displaced 500K people, wrecked the rivers, caused toxic dumps all over and would have been built not to support the economy but some ego by placing it in the wrong location. Been to China, you seem to think Augustus the Great. Think more Attila the Hun.

  • @kevinloo9688

    @kevinloo9688

    7 ай бұрын

    actually infrastructure is the strong suit of autocracies. innovation & freedom are products of democracy, which in large parts hinder big projects like these. refer to the lackluster infrastructure of US. even with bipartisan support for build back better, we're yet to see many promised projects to break grounds due to legal hurdles afforded by democracy

  • @GenieChef
    @GenieChef7 ай бұрын

    Sadly due to the incompetence of the germans (like always) the project won't be able to run full capacity even after construction on the austrian and italian side is finished. Same happened with the Gotthard-tunnel in Switzerland. Germany really became an incredible unreliable partner in recent years.

  • @erik5374

    @erik5374

    7 ай бұрын

    Same with our Betuwe-lijn. It’s a freight rail from Rotterdam to germany. Dutch part was finished 16 years ago. Building the german part should have started in 2003, but was postponed until 2016. And now it’s delayed to 2026.

  • @etienne8110

    @etienne8110

    7 ай бұрын

    Always has been.

  • @prithvirajsrinivasan1077

    @prithvirajsrinivasan1077

    7 ай бұрын

    If it is good for the environment, saves costs and furthers trade link, why are the Germans delaying this?

  • @erik5374

    @erik5374

    7 ай бұрын

    @@prithvirajsrinivasan1077 Germany has troubles to finance infrastructure projects.

  • @prithvirajsrinivasan1077

    @prithvirajsrinivasan1077

    7 ай бұрын

    @@erik5374 Trouble as in lack of budget?

  • @APAstronaut333
    @APAstronaut3337 ай бұрын

    I like to see the European Union working in that way.

  • @fjuvo
    @fjuvo7 ай бұрын

    You should've talked about the delay on the German portion of the project. It doesn't just stop in Austria. And because Germany had such delays, the tunnel will not be able to reach even close it's capacity for 10 years after it's completion

  • @jpsion

    @jpsion

    7 ай бұрын

    why? project overruns arent news. all about risk management.

  • @Slithermotion

    @Slithermotion

    7 ай бұрын

    Look at the gotthardbase tunnel, Germany is decades behind doing it's part which was legally written down. Brennerbasetunnel will have the same issue. Suprisingly the italians are more reliable then the germans with planning infrastructure...no offense my italian friends.

  • @fjuvo

    @fjuvo

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@Slithermotion Honestly there should be fines for signatories that are missing deadlines. Just like with construction companies

  • @robertmusil1107

    @robertmusil1107

    7 ай бұрын

    Unlucky that Germans can't plan and constuct anything properly. Look at the airport in Berlin or the Stuttgart project :D:D

  • @_SpamMe

    @_SpamMe

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes, the real issue is not the tunnel - that will get build, slowly, but steadily. The issue are the connecting routes, which have NIMBY issues on both sides. But unfortunately much worse on the Bavarian/German side, so won't get that done in time. Difficult to understand why that is; there's some German mini docus on it on youtube. People just come across as very petty, with nonsense concerns, and politicians rather than support the project undermine it via empty promises to those people, as if somehow the Brenner problems could be fixed in a different way.

  • @zyoninkiro
    @zyoninkiro7 ай бұрын

    In northwest Italy/southeast France, we have another major rail project, the Lyon Turin line which will include the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel. That tunnel will be even longer than the Brenner Base Tunnel. This project has been slowly lurching forward and the NIMBY group, NoTAV (Treno ad Alta Velocita or High Speed Train), has been protesting and doing their best to block it. However progress is staring to be made. The Europeans don't mess around when it comes to rail projects.

  • @pearpenguin
    @pearpenguin7 ай бұрын

    Ha. Very good video. I originally thought I clicked on a B1M video until I left realize halfway that it wasn't Fred talking.

  • @MainulWasTaken
    @MainulWasTaken7 ай бұрын

    Really proud of my country 🇮🇹 to make some intercontinental infrastructures that will boost our economy to the moon

  • @fr4120

    @fr4120

    7 ай бұрын

    Economia italiana alle stelle???? Non credo viviamo nello stesso paese

  • @gre894

    @gre894

    7 ай бұрын

    Intercontinental means between continents

  • @MainulWasTaken

    @MainulWasTaken

    7 ай бұрын

    @@gre894 sorry So between continental which word is used?

  • @gre894

    @gre894

    7 ай бұрын

    @@MainulWasTaken Intracontinental or I guess in this case, intereuropean/intra-EU would be an applicable term.

  • @vladcampos
    @vladcampos7 ай бұрын

    When you publish a video about Europe, I believe it is reasonable to assume that the majority of the audience will be from Europe. Having said that, I think it would be polite to use the metric system 😉

  • @ThomasK3004

    @ThomasK3004

    7 ай бұрын

    The intellectual horizon of many Americans only extends from Los Angeles to New York. They don't realize that they are almost alone in the world with their completely destructive system (feet, miles, inces, lbs, etc.).

  • @giuseppenero110

    @giuseppenero110

    7 ай бұрын

    @@ThomasK3004: Inbred arrogance; like a European country with that same system and who wouldn't bother to change to right-side driving like many other countries did

  • @covfefe1787

    @covfefe1787

    7 ай бұрын

    NATO dictates what Europe can or cant do. remember you are Vassals to Washington.

  • @DonHrvato

    @DonHrvato

    7 ай бұрын

    The funny thing is, the Metric system is official in US. "Congress has established a national policy to make the metric system the preferred system of measurement for trade and commerce in the United States." See: www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metrication-law

  • @adrien5834

    @adrien5834

    7 ай бұрын

    @@covfefe1787 NATO uses metric.

  • @HughNeylan
    @HughNeylan7 ай бұрын

    Bit of nostalgia to see the UK in the EU road/rail infrastructure map 1:02 😢

  • @retohummer2570
    @retohummer25707 ай бұрын

    You better build a tunnel under Germany, that's the real bottleneck 😂

  • @MrSaemichlaus

    @MrSaemichlaus

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah Germany is also making the swiss Gotthard base tunnel a bit of a thud. The passenger rail connections are laughable too.

  • @NotDumbassable
    @NotDumbassable7 ай бұрын

    You seem to have misunderstood how the Austrian federal system works. The federal government did not impose these traffic limitations, the Tyrolean state government did. And the federal gov couldn‘t force the state gov to lift them even if they wanted to.

  • @Frahamen

    @Frahamen

    7 ай бұрын

    One of the main function of federal systems is for the states to blame everything controversial to the federal government eventhough they have nothing to do with it.

  • @OscarUnrated

    @OscarUnrated

    7 ай бұрын

    @@cmmartti that’s a bad analogy, your body is under completely centralized control, if it was a country it’d be a dictatorship. In this case it’s more like your kid punched someone and you need to take some responsibility

  • @ipel4

    @ipel4

    7 ай бұрын

    They've signed a treaty making european law supersede austrian law. It is illegal. Full stop.

  • @mitanni0

    @mitanni0

    7 ай бұрын

    @@cmmartti Austrian here. "If it so chooses" translates into "complex & lenghty negotiations needed". It wasn't mentioned in the clip, but the population along the transport corridor - which spans from Kitzbühel via Innsbruck to Matrei am Brenner (several 100k people) isn't happy with the insane amount of traffic going on in their backyard (often times, quite literally so). Any regional politician who might choose to ignore those complaints wouldn't survive politically.

  • @lul605

    @lul605

    7 ай бұрын

    And it's good that there are trafic restrictions

  • @edoardorossi5031
    @edoardorossi50317 ай бұрын

    Long term planning. Well done to all involved!

  • @that1niceguy246

    @that1niceguy246

    7 ай бұрын

    Except Germany - they get their well done when they finally finish their part of the project. Because the corridors rely on Germany also expanding their parts of the corridor.

  • @nomad6-1
    @nomad6-17 ай бұрын

    The problem is the Munich to Innsbruck railway. Without high speed in there, people will still take the plane to go from Germany to Italy. I suppose it's fine for freight.

  • @Ale-bj7nd

    @Ale-bj7nd

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah, it takes me 3 hours from Italy to Munich by car, while it takes 6 hours by train, costs more, and you have to take 2 changes (hoping for no delays). I see no reasons to use the train.

  • @Ale-bj7nd

    @Ale-bj7nd

    7 ай бұрын

    We need a HS line between Verona and Munich.

  • @stascht7116

    @stascht7116

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Ale-bj7ndwohin in Italien von München aus dauert es denn 3 Stunden mit dem Auto, aber 6 mit dem Zug. Fahre die Strecke oft und verstehe deine Aussage nicht ganz

  • @Ale-bj7nd

    @Ale-bj7nd

    7 ай бұрын

    @@stascht7116 Ich spreche nicht sehr gut Deutsch. Kannst di in English repeat it?

  • @Ale-bj7nd

    @Ale-bj7nd

    7 ай бұрын

    @@stascht7116 Wait, I think I have understood. Check Ortisei (Grödental)

  • @RomaInvicta202
    @RomaInvicta2027 ай бұрын

    That's a great example of two things: a) why we, Europeans need EU b) why not everything can be done by private companies

  • @ezioauditore1522

    @ezioauditore1522

    3 ай бұрын

    Costruite con i soldi dei contribuenti e date in concessione a privati con sede in paradisi fiscali nella stessa unione. Eh si; proprio due grandi esempi. Io la EU non la voglio.

  • @Mike-lf7sh
    @Mike-lf7sh7 ай бұрын

    Only Germany is failing to build their infrastructure to get proper train connectivity incl. truck infrastructure to the BBT

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury53197 ай бұрын

    there are another 2 or 3 of these base tunnels built/being built and you should do documentries on all of them because they are all interesting and watch every video that comes out for them.

  • @michaelmains6785
    @michaelmains67857 ай бұрын

    Keep these infrastructure videos coming!

  • @Jhossack
    @Jhossack7 ай бұрын

    It is genuinely gobsmacking to see this modern masterpiece measured in ”miles”

  • @Czechbound
    @Czechbound7 ай бұрын

    I new nothing about this. Now I do. This is very interesting and informative. Well done !

  • @AB-zl4nh
    @AB-zl4nh7 ай бұрын

    TEAM 🇪🇺 EUROPE

  • @attilaabonyi8879

    @attilaabonyi8879

    7 ай бұрын

    🇪🇺

  • @StephenSmith-ge1qf
    @StephenSmith-ge1qf7 ай бұрын

    In the area where I live, there are two main rail routes through from Italy into Switzerland. The busier one goes on a more eastern route, through the border at Chiasso and thence to the Gotthard base tunnel. My local one is a single track, built in the 1880's, which follows the shore of Lake Maggiore and enters Switzerland there. It was modernised around 6 years ago, but it's still very old infrastructure and the plan is to run millions of tons of freight along it. New rail infrastructure is definitely needed, before some incident dumps toxic waste into the water and river systems which supply the whole of the densely populated north of Italy.

  • @SwissCHer

    @SwissCHer

    7 ай бұрын

    The Simplon/Sempione railway from Milan to Brig is double track but I agree that the infrastructure needs to be renovated.

  • @brunoheggli2888
    @brunoheggli28887 ай бұрын

    Wow so much love!Amazing!

  • @alejosky
    @alejosky5 ай бұрын

    There is a small mistake at 1:39. The narrator says "... this main highway: the Brenner Pass", but the (black and white) image on display is of the Europa bridge, which is 30 km north of the Brenner Pass. Both, the Brenner Pass and the Europa Bridge are part of the Brenner Autobahn (or motorway A13), which is the actual main highway in mention.

  • @jentulj9611
    @jentulj96117 ай бұрын

    The auto industry in Germany 🇩🇪 undermines all those mass transport infrastructure.

  • @StefanoLinguanotto
    @StefanoLinguanotto7 ай бұрын

    Thank you for using so much actual footage of the site

  • @denniswoodhouse3351
    @denniswoodhouse33517 ай бұрын

    I remember going over the brenner pass in 1990s in a school Minibus on a climbing trip ; the brakes where smoking on the way down …

  • @niklasgermann
    @niklasgermann7 ай бұрын

    I am from Austria and this is actually the best report I ever saw about this topic, and its yet far away

  • @Marco-hl6gz
    @Marco-hl6gz7 ай бұрын

    for context, San Francisco is building a 6 mi (10km) subway extension for $12B

  • @HughNeylan

    @HughNeylan

    7 ай бұрын

    But this is in a built up urban area where costs for labour, land and sound/dust/environmental mitigations for people who live and work in the area are $$$

  • @roger0929

    @roger0929

    7 ай бұрын

    I wonder how much more expensive it would be if San Francisco were in a seismically-active zone?

  • @thomasbaenziger9605
    @thomasbaenziger96057 ай бұрын

    This article is interesting but it must mention the Gotthard railway tunnel😢

  • @tic-tacdrin-drinn1505

    @tic-tacdrin-drinn1505

    7 ай бұрын

    It's not about the Gotthard tunnel, we didn't click for "tunnels under the Alps"

  • @antoniiocaluso1071
    @antoniiocaluso10717 ай бұрын

    truly a heroic effort by all, and well-worth the effort. Especially IF it expands into Eastern Europe more! Whoever came up with this had...bigga ballza!

  • @CitronCassis
    @CitronCassis7 ай бұрын

    There is also the Lyon - Turin line with a 57,5km tunnel under the Alps (with a total of 162 km of galleries.) It should be finished in 2032 or more.

  • @TwoNote
    @TwoNote7 ай бұрын

    What I find outstanding is that in NYC it cost several billions to extend the subway station a couple of miles. Meanwhile in they are building about 20 miles of tunnel for just 11 Billions. I get that NYC is denser etc, but the numbers are so disproportionate.

  • @JK-gu3tl

    @JK-gu3tl

    7 ай бұрын

    Maybe NYC should outsource?

  • @Maurazio

    @Maurazio

    7 ай бұрын

    it's really not surprising, on the alps you are not digging underground but from the side and you have tons of space for construction sites and machinery, dumping dirt, housing workers. no human infrastructure inside the mountain either, no vibration problems, just geological issues if the job was not planned properly.

  • @Malte_OJ

    @Malte_OJ

    7 ай бұрын

    Subway extensions in Europe aren't cheaper. Subway stations are pretty expensive, but there won't be any stations in this tunnel.

  • @Sedna063

    @Sedna063

    7 ай бұрын

    The thing is, nobody owns anything a mile below the mountains. You just make a test drill and once you are satisfied with your findings, you are good to go. Nobody then cares. Digging in a city is different. There is so much infrastructure, basements, foundations, wires, debris etc. Not much space for logistics etc… That makes it exoensive

  • @alaindumas1824

    @alaindumas1824

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Malte_OJ You have a lot to learn about Europe. Presupuesto ampliacion linea 11 Metro de Madrid 10 km desde Conde Casal hasta Mar de Cristal con 5 paradas = 650 milliones Euro. Prolongement metro 14 jusqu'a l'aeroport d'Orly 207 million Euros/km. Costo previsto linea 5 Metro Milano compreso stazione e treni 105 millioni E/km.

  • @giuseppegenova4990
    @giuseppegenova49907 ай бұрын

    And this is only one of the megaproject in contruction. Italy has amazing mountains, but on the counterpart this lets to extreme difficulties in building infrastructures. They are masters in civil engineering at time of building bridges and tunnels.

  • @hape3862

    @hape3862

    7 ай бұрын

    … as seen a few years ago in Genoa.

  • @intersezioni

    @intersezioni

    7 ай бұрын

    @@hape3862 and in many other parts of the world like China or the United States for example, where other bridges have collapsed!

  • @hape3862

    @hape3862

    7 ай бұрын

    @@intersezioni Non mi piace quando le persone si gonfiano. Questo mi stimola a farli sfogare un po'. Soprattutto quando un genovese, tra tutti, parla della fantastica costruzione di ponti italiani. 🤔

  • @giuseppegiovani2748

    @giuseppegiovani2748

    4 ай бұрын

    @@hape3862 Il ponte era fantastico ma se non lo curi nel tempo diventa ovviamente una merda

  • @jumponthenextlevel
    @jumponthenextlevel7 ай бұрын

    The Most important for freight rail is that you dont ned a second or third loco. You can run the alps flat with the same configuration from south to north.

  • @stehgrad
    @stehgrad7 ай бұрын

    The biggest problem are the Germans. They will not have proper railway lines to the BBT when it is finished. They are slow as @@@@ and don't invest in their infrastructure. For Austria this is only one of three mega tunnels which are currently under construction and we can do this without any issues. Germany doesn't even know where to build the rails to the BBT. This will take decades.

  • @flierfy

    @flierfy

    7 ай бұрын

    Wrong. The infrastructure in Germany is already in place. It already provides the necessary capacities to feed the BBT.

  • @nomad6-1

    @nomad6-1

    7 ай бұрын

    @@flierfy It's too slow. Munich to Innsbruck takes too much time. There should be High-speed railways. So people could take the train from germany to italy instead of planes.

  • @RC2225

    @RC2225

    7 ай бұрын

    And for the Gotthard base tunnel they know the route but it will open at earliest in the 40s. Even Italy is much further with building out the infrastructure from Switzerland to Genova.

  • @justsamoo3480

    @justsamoo3480

    7 ай бұрын

    @@flierfy Italy also has railways to the BBT, yet they’re still building the high speed rail line to it on an arguably tougher terrain with higher population density

  • @flierfy

    @flierfy

    7 ай бұрын

    @@nomad6-1 The BBT gets built first and foremost to simplify operation and may even provide additional capacities. Speeding up passenger traffic is a completely different kettle and a by-product of this project. Shortening travel times north of Innsbruck, though, is rather low on the priority list, and quite rightly so. Germany is the DACH-country which has sped up rail travel the most and will continue to do so, just not necessarily there where the Austrians wants it.

  • @reneschneiderAustralia
    @reneschneiderAustralia7 ай бұрын

    There are already 2 base Alps tunnel through Switzerland as an alternative!

  • @patrickbaer7156

    @patrickbaer7156

    7 ай бұрын

    Even better, they are not paid by EU but only by Switzerland itself :-)

  • @MrSaemichlaus

    @MrSaemichlaus

    7 ай бұрын

    @@patrickbaer7156 I don't understand to this day why we don't charge a toll fee for the tunnel! Probably some green bigger picture reason, for example avoiding more flights.

  • @lucios_7266
    @lucios_72667 ай бұрын

    Considering my city (Karlsruhe) spent 1,5 billion euros (1,6 billion dollars) on a tunnel about 6 km (4 miles) long 11 billion for a tunnel through the alps doesn’t seem that expensive

  • @becconvideo

    @becconvideo

    7 ай бұрын

    It won't cost only 11bn :-)

  • @goatman86
    @goatman867 ай бұрын

    Same happend to the tunnel connecting Germany with east Denmark. What tunnel? you ask, yeah my point exactly.

  • @Cier433
    @Cier4337 ай бұрын

    Good explanatory video of the project and its benefits although the last part about the war was unnecessary. They should have talked better about whether the merchandise would travel in a container or the entire truck would be taken by train as they do on a similar train in Switzerland.

  • @bramharms72

    @bramharms72

    7 ай бұрын

    They're Americans, they can only justify spending government money if it's for war.

  • @_Pinkesh_kumar_Yadav
    @_Pinkesh_kumar_Yadav7 ай бұрын

    Good work pals

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi84677 ай бұрын

    Very interesting!

  • @lolipoable
    @lolipoable7 ай бұрын

    I don't know, I've done that road multiple times, I never felt it was slow or supper busy. Guess they looking for the future

  • @smallsmartshorty
    @smallsmartshorty7 ай бұрын

    I have been so curious to learn the details of how the engineers accounted for curvature. Is anyone able to point me in the right direction or provide more information?

  • @tylerroberts1276
    @tylerroberts12767 ай бұрын

    $11 billion for 30 miles of tunnel *cries in New Yorker vernacular*

  • @michaelclement1337
    @michaelclement13377 ай бұрын

    That's certainly long term planning. I'm assuming that the terrain prevents more dive sites to speed up the project

  • @hape3862

    @hape3862

    7 ай бұрын

    There are several dive sites, but for each one you have to dig a huge hole several hundred meters deep to reach the base tunnel. The access high in the mountains with the corresponding environmental, logistical and economic disadvantages makes the cost-benefit calculation unfavorable very quickly.

  • @MrDK0010
    @MrDK00107 ай бұрын

    SÜDTIROL MENTIONED

  • @APoIIy
    @APoIIy7 ай бұрын

    The issue will not be the Brenner-Tunnel. The issue will probably be Germany and it's unwillingness to built out the Railway infrastructure. There could be already a lot of traffic comming through the Alps via Railway. This is why Switzerland built the Gotthard-Basistunnel which is as of today the longest Tunnel through the Alps. They finished in 2016. It's the same principle; connect the north of Europe with the South. Also the Italians allready have competed their part. But the Germans have not even STARTED to build out their Railway infrastructure to support Railway transportation! Do you know when they planned to do it? In 2041. They have to lay down some freaking iron and can't even manage that while Switzerland dig through the Alps.

  • @danielschwendinger8382

    @danielschwendinger8382

    7 ай бұрын

    As much as I support your input, Germany has partly started, but due to the collapse of the building site near Rastatt due to the soft sandy foundation in the upper rhine plain, it got delayed several years - not mentioning the super slow tracks between Freiburg and Basel….

  • @Ultronize
    @Ultronize7 ай бұрын

    europe must be the global standard. Sustainable Development.

  • @aemi_sa
    @aemi_sa7 ай бұрын

    i love italy so much! love from germany

  • @thesunsunkwok
    @thesunsunkwok7 ай бұрын

    Visionary

  • @adambrown209
    @adambrown2097 ай бұрын

    once got doner in brenner when waiting for a train

  • @alfaeco15
    @alfaeco157 ай бұрын

    Talk with Czechia , Poland and Baltic republics for an alternative rail corridor....

  • @danielschwendinger8382
    @danielschwendinger83827 ай бұрын

    A whole video about a transalpine freight axis without mentioning the existing Gotthard base tunnel in Switzerland (even if it‘s currently unusable due to the recent train accident).

  • @hanzkehrli

    @hanzkehrli

    7 ай бұрын

    Right? Badly researched.

  • @johfc
    @johfc7 ай бұрын

    With such long timelines for completion, why is there no staging?

  • @Fiyeroification
    @Fiyeroification7 ай бұрын

    How long until it's finished?

  • @interstellarphred
    @interstellarphred7 ай бұрын

    A bargain compared to the big dig highway in Boston USA

  • @AFCManUk
    @AFCManUk7 ай бұрын

    Still cheaper than HS2!

  • @HughNeylan

    @HughNeylan

    7 ай бұрын

    No expensive London terminus!

  • @geohhoeg8630
    @geohhoeg86307 ай бұрын

    I look forward to watching grainy footage of zombie hordes bypassing the alps with this tunnel one day!

  • @GamerbyDesign
    @GamerbyDesign7 ай бұрын

    Didn't seem like it had much traffic.

  • @sumit2302
    @sumit23027 ай бұрын

    In india same work is happening in himalyas on two different places USBRL and char dham link project with dozens of tunnels and bridges

  • @mikerock8177
    @mikerock81777 ай бұрын

    For goods people and electrical power

  • @beyondcitylimits
    @beyondcitylimits7 ай бұрын

    the quickest solution is to use multi trailer trucks like Australia. Their standard single truck trailer combined length is allowed to be up to 19m, B-Double up to 26m, type 1 road train up to 36.5m and type 2 road trains up to 53.5m

  • @torbene.3858

    @torbene.3858

    Ай бұрын

    Try getting these monstrosities around streets with with curbes that are almost U-turns and have a lane width of 3m (=10feet)...😅

  • @purplecouch4767
    @purplecouch47677 ай бұрын

    🎶Secret tunnel through the mountain🎶

  • @olbiomoiros
    @olbiomoirosАй бұрын

    The Balkans really need to develop their railway. It’d also be nice if all EU railway was compatible and connected

  • @keithd5181
    @keithd51817 ай бұрын

    No. They had to stabilise the ground.

  • @Sjalabais
    @Sjalabais7 ай бұрын

    70 minutes savings - what about loading and unloading on either end? Many of the goods will have the typical "last mile"-issue and more that rail transport always will have.

  • @urbanfile3861

    @urbanfile3861

    6 ай бұрын

    Money saving. Freight trains are cheaper than trucks

  • @AreHan1991
    @AreHan19917 ай бұрын

    Amazing how SOMETIMES long term thinking prevails 👏🏽👍🏾

  • @Max_Jacoby
    @Max_Jacoby7 ай бұрын

    Aren't mountaneous regions seismic unstable?

  • @urbanfile3861

    @urbanfile3861

    6 ай бұрын

    Not by default. Anyway tunnels and viaducts are seismic resistant

  • @eoindruid7814
    @eoindruid78144 ай бұрын

    I drove tour coaches on this road. Beautiful road and scenery but not a nice place for a traffic jam

  • @hyperlemongt4890
    @hyperlemongt48907 ай бұрын

    I used the mont blanc tunnel earlier last year. It cost €51 one way for just over 7 miles. Imagine how much they will charge for this one...

  • @adriandunne4382

    @adriandunne4382

    7 ай бұрын

    It is a railway tunnel only. A road tunnel 30 kilometres long would have to be restricted to all electric vehicles only, which is not presently economic. The problem with tunnels for vehicles with internal combustion engines is ventilation to avoid users being poisoned by exhaust fumes.

  • @AmerBoyo
    @AmerBoyo7 ай бұрын

    They dug a shaft right next to a river?!?! That surely can’t end well:/

  • @georgobergfell

    @georgobergfell

    7 ай бұрын

    Well, it did. They are finished and the shafts are already mostly backfilled

  • @claudeguignard2101
    @claudeguignard21017 ай бұрын

    Le rail oui, la route non.

  • @thebeautifulones5436
    @thebeautifulones54367 ай бұрын

    Hopefully one day all railways and motorways will be in tunnels.

  • @CreatorPolar

    @CreatorPolar

    7 ай бұрын

    And why exactly? Why build tunnels everywhere when a large majority of alignments are at grade

  • @marco21274
    @marco212747 ай бұрын

    Yes, around Germany they booked new infrastructure but here they have only hysteria. That will cost us dearly.

  • @polyrhythmia
    @polyrhythmia7 ай бұрын

    Compared to the spending on war, it's nothing...

  • @nickkunst952
    @nickkunst9527 ай бұрын

    Driver: How much is the toll? ???: Yes.

  • @BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele

    @BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele

    7 ай бұрын

    It's a rail tunnel

  • @Username-hw6ee
    @Username-hw6ee7 ай бұрын

    BBT... Big Black Tunnel

  • @soulofamerica
    @soulofamerica7 ай бұрын

    we need similar tunnels in California and Pennsylvania

  • @SolaceEasy
    @SolaceEasy7 ай бұрын

    Did I hear the narrator say we have to wait until 2022 for something to be done? Time Warp?

  • @arohaukka4463

    @arohaukka4463

    7 ай бұрын

    2032 is when the base tunnel is suppose to open

  • @rodrigomohr1277
    @rodrigomohr12777 ай бұрын

    The trading purpose of the project is very good. The military part is very negative.

  • @reneschwab170

    @reneschwab170

    7 ай бұрын

    The video exaggerates the importance of military aspects in the planning. The economic reasons were far more important.

  • @MrSaemichlaus

    @MrSaemichlaus

    7 ай бұрын

    Such a tunnel is pretty useless for military logistics. You can just bomb the entrances and it's done. Maybe it could provide shelter from bombing or nuclear fallout.

  • @rodrigomohr1277

    @rodrigomohr1277

    7 ай бұрын

    Good point.@@MrSaemichlaus

  • @RandyZimmerman-pp5wj
    @RandyZimmerman-pp5wj7 ай бұрын

    Why not use a tbm sure would reduce the time and eco cost

  • @odl21

    @odl21

    7 ай бұрын

    They do

  • @sauvignonblanc0
    @sauvignonblanc07 ай бұрын

    0:46: due to Brexit, Great Britain is no longer included. North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor (in turquoise) is now Ireland-Belgium-Netherlands and Ireland-France.

  • @becconvideo

    @becconvideo

    7 ай бұрын

    how would they go to Ireland? Build a tunnel around our under the UK?

  • @petermasschelein6051

    @petermasschelein6051

    7 ай бұрын

    ​​@@becconvideonot by making use of the HS2.

  • @arohaukka4463

    @arohaukka4463

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@becconvideoferry routes are included in TEN-T policy as well

  • @alperenbaser7952
    @alperenbaser79527 ай бұрын

    How Eu extend railway to Armenia without crossing Turkey?

  • @AB-zl4nh

    @AB-zl4nh

    7 ай бұрын

    Turkey is in the EU Custom Union and works with the EU on major projects. It is building high-speed rail too.

  • @ebbeb9827

    @ebbeb9827

    7 ай бұрын

    theres a little thing called the black sea. TEN-T also includes water and port infrastructure

  • @alperenbaser7952

    @alperenbaser7952

    7 ай бұрын

    @@ebbeb9827 wow genius . Armenia is landlocked . Good idea

  • @awellculturedmanofanime1246

    @awellculturedmanofanime1246

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@alperenbaser7952 yeah but Georgia is also a european ally so they can help and will most likely benefit themselves 🫰

  • @alperenbaser7952

    @alperenbaser7952

    7 ай бұрын

    @@awellculturedmanofanime1246 right . A country occupied by Russia gonna join the Western alliance just like Ukraine

  • @ericcarabetta1161
    @ericcarabetta11617 ай бұрын

    2032?! I’ll be surprised if the earth still exists by that time.

  • @jimmyriddle50
    @jimmyriddle507 ай бұрын

    I would have thought that they would restrict them "to driving only at night" not " restricted from driving at night" to avoid congestion during the day when more cars would be using the road?

  • @reneschwab170

    @reneschwab170

    7 ай бұрын

    The restrictions were introduced to protect residents from noise at night.

  • @jimmyriddle50

    @jimmyriddle50

    7 ай бұрын

    Ahh of course, thanks! @@reneschwab170

  • @yaush_
    @yaush_6 ай бұрын

    I feel like we know that rail is a better way to transport freight than trucks. It’s just way more efficient. In the US for example trucks are mostly used only to get the goods to their final destination. There’s no reason Europe shouldn’t do this too.

  • @gregsutton2400
    @gregsutton24007 ай бұрын

    and more significantly, it was the Brenner pass that the SS flooded through in 1943 to keep Italy from leaving the war when they tried too.

  • @biennui
    @biennui7 ай бұрын

    I was wondering why WSJ doesn't put this video clip behind its paywall. Why use KZread???

  • @danroberts67
    @danroberts677 ай бұрын

    And still 10% of the cost of HS2 between just outside London and not quite the main station in Birmingham. Just shows how useless the UK is

  • @RonaldTrumpOfficial
    @RonaldTrumpOfficial7 ай бұрын

    Something HS2 wished to be..

  • @TanyaLairdCivil
    @TanyaLairdCivil7 ай бұрын

  • @alexanderesslinger4971
    @alexanderesslinger49717 ай бұрын

    Due to famous bavarian NIMBY mentality the German connection routes in the Inn valley will take even longer as until 2032😢

  • @bbishyy
    @bbishyy7 ай бұрын

    her vocal fry is insane

  • @odl21

    @odl21

    7 ай бұрын

    Haha. Indeed. Horrible

  • @dshamiljathaddaus1287
    @dshamiljathaddaus12877 ай бұрын

    6:12 weird to write all city names in English except the German ones

  • @ianbirge8269

    @ianbirge8269

    7 ай бұрын

    Look again, most of them are spelled the native way until you get to eastern europe (looking at you Warsaw)

  • @dshamiljathaddaus1287

    @dshamiljathaddaus1287

    7 ай бұрын

    Even in the west, most of them aren’t: Lisbon, Turin, Milan, Brussels. And the other ones in the West probably appear as though they’re written in native spelling since their native name coincides with the English one, but not bc someone made an effort to translate them. Just weird

  • @satyakisil9711

    @satyakisil9711

    7 ай бұрын

    Rome and Copenhagen are not in English.

  • @dshamiljathaddaus1287

    @dshamiljathaddaus1287

    7 ай бұрын

    Congrats babe, doesn’t change what I said about the rest tho 😂 like make it uniform. That’s all I’m saying

  • @tyrport
    @tyrport7 ай бұрын

    What happens to all the rock removed?

  • @ChristiaanHW

    @ChristiaanHW

    7 ай бұрын

    they reuse it somewhere. i don't know what type of rock it is but they either reuse it in something like concrete or they use it as some kind of filler. for example in strengthening shorelines.

  • @luigifranceschi2350

    @luigifranceschi2350

    7 ай бұрын

    Partially to make concrete cast used for the vault. The rest disposed of in unused quarries.

  • @tic-tacdrin-drinn1505

    @tic-tacdrin-drinn1505

    7 ай бұрын

    Some of it is used to partially fill a valley in Austria

  • @guerreiro943
    @guerreiro9437 ай бұрын

    Projects like these show the amazing things we Europeans can do if we put aside petty nationalistic disputes and just work together. European cooperation is the key for our future peace and economic prosperity.

  • @markgodin3969
    @markgodin39697 ай бұрын

    So they can hide I think they can.