Australia’s INSANE $80 BILLION Plan To Build A Bridge To Tasmania
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Australia’s INSANE $80 BILLION Plan To Build A Bridge To Tasmania
How would it feel to drive from Australia to Tasmania without the need for a ferry? Long ago, Tasmania was linked to mainland Australia by a land bridge, allowing the Aboriginal people to travel between the two. However, around 12,000 years ago, rising sea levels separated the island, leaving it isolated ever since. For decades, the idea of a physical link between Tasmania and the Australian mainland has been a tantalizing vision, sparking debates and captivating imaginations. But could it actually become a reality? The journey from concept to construction is riddled with immense challenges—technical, financial, and environmental—yet the potential rewards are nothing short of transformative.
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@lucijanpraprotnik
In my opinion a floating tunnel would certainly be MUCH BETTER AND WISER OPTION because it is more ecofriendly to the environment.
@jasontempest4233
I’m Australian, have lived here all my life and have been involved in the construction industry as well as having a strong interest in this sort of thing. I have never heard of such a proposal and the likelihood of this ever happening are about 0%. The only remotely possible option would be via Flinders Island on the eastern side of Bass Strait. The centre dips down to below 80 metres for hundreds of kilometres and the western side isn’t much better. The likelihood of someone building a bridge between UK and Ireland or Europe, or Korea and Japan is much higher. Actually, the likelihood of someone building a bridge linking New Zealand’s north and south islands or Taiwan and China or Florida and Cuba are much more feasible and have pretty much 0% chance of happening. No, not sure where this idea came from, but it won’t happen.
@toprock9500
Given that the population of Tasmania is only 580000, its extremely unlikely that the cost/benefit ratio would ever justify such a huge expense.
@RAV2292
0:03 Tasmania is a part of Australia. I think you meant mainland Australia to Tasmania.
@RickWilliams-uj9nr
No one in Australia is talking about this, no one. We can’t even do high speed rail between cities.
@AllanLawrence-w3e
Excuse me. Drive from Australia to Tasmania? Tasmania is Australia. OMG these intelligent people.
@ThatGuyT
One better doesn’t end up halfway somewhere, with an empty gas tank or car defect.
@thebeautifulones1978
There isn’t even a dual carriageway between the two largest cities in Tassie.
@istp1967
THERE’S NO WAY IN HELL I would drive for 4 hours across Bas Strait!! The Crosswinds would be lethal! Not to mention, $80 billion won’t cover it; and if they came in on bugdet, I doubt it would be safe!
@70PlusProductions
I think it’s a real shame that you’ve wasted your time producing this video – It’s 150 miles between mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania – I don’t think that you’re going to see this idea come to fruition in your lifetime ….
@atholmullen
The weather that frequently disrupts ferry services would also disrupt traffic on a bridge. The only really feasible option would be a rail tunnel.
@Legoatjamesthethird
So many problems with this, 1. Cost 2. Materials 3.time 4. Length ( if this were to happen it would be 70+ kilometres longer than the longest bridge ) 5. Workers 6. Pollution
@PhillysHobbyHouse
Wow if this actually happened it would blow out the cost like every other project built here! It would take maybe three life times because we are slack and plagued with to much red tape and the cost of actually using it once completed would render it in usable!!!
@ChipChat1493
It would be a better idea and cheaper to build a bridge over the original land bridge than a direct bridge.
@stevenburns704
They’ll be a McDonald’s on Mars before there’s a road bridge from the Australian mainland to Australia.
@rogervanamois5345
It took over 100 years to connect Adelaide to Darwin by Rail.
It’s only just building a inland Rail Line from Melbourne to Brisbane.
It does not have 1 Bullet Train or VFT Train Line.
It’s Highway 1 is not properly finished. Want to Travel
Flying is the only feasible way.
@grahamessen736
Just imagine the cost of this project if managed (mis) by the Tasmanian grubberment, let alone the cost and time overruns. they can’t even organise a ferry service.
@Kneedragon1962
1 ~ I have never heard of this before.
2 ~ There are a number of large scale infrastructure projects we could undertake, which would make us rich. Like a huge solar farm and an under-sea cable to Asia, so we could sell them electricity.
This is not going to make us rich. We have the primary resource to be the source of much of the world’s clean energy, which would be good for the planet and also good for our bank account. This doesn’t come close.
@michaelpamphilon7513
The Spirit of Tasmania was great for me back in December 2000. Newer ships now. A quick, easy hop by plane too. The air there is amazingly clean, and the scenery is spectacular. We call them TASWEGIANS, and they call us MAINLANDERS: it’s an Aussie thing, dig it.
@AdrianPraljak
Yes awesome idea but needs high fence safety rails, Fence, along non stop, like on Westgate Bridge but much higher protection Fences.
@Boozoobajou1
This is Australia mate, not China, Japan or South Korea can’t even get a fast train happening.
@Craig61-f2u
I’ve never heard the Federal or state government make any proposal to build a bridge from Victoria to Tasmania, anyway it would be impossible for many reasons, the first major sea storm would wipe it out.
@Noxie123
So by the time they finish it it will cost double to build and take ten years. What a joke. Here’s an idea build some homes for low income families and the homeless.
@LanceBailey-iu9vo
Looks to me like a short hop flight is better. Much faster crossing. Depending how many people actually would want to cross day to day
@gicking3898
Sydney can’t even build a train line from the city to Mosman to the northern beaches, and it was first mentioned over 100 (one hundred) years ago!
@mews56
We more likely to see a bridge from mainland Australian to Kula Lumpur .Before we ever see a tunnel from mainland Australia to Tasmania.Just as seeing a high Speed train from Sydney to Perth
@leighgray8537
This has been talked about at length a lot, flinder way was the safest most economical way to do this with bridges at certain point to allow for wildlife to migrate, the main idea was to fill in the shallow parts bridge most of it with earth to rejuice the about of infrastructure to bring the prices down, i doubt it’ll ever happen though.
@toni4729
Tasmania is far better off separate from the mainland. It’s considered impossible to build a bridge between North and South ilands of New Zealand and the distance from Victoria and Tasmania is more than ten times as far. The cost alone would be outrageous.
@tonyhadenough2574
The Australian government is flatout giving money to fix potholes let alone allowing money to build a massive bridge.
Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhmgUEEDAVo
