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"Megaproject" seems to be used pretty loosely in this list. In my mind, renovating some airport terminals or adding extra lanes to a highway over a 10 mile str
by ramblenode 2y ago
"Megaproject" seems to be used pretty loosely in this list.
In my mind, renovating some airport terminals or adding extra lanes to a highway over a 10 mile stretch is not an ambitious "megaproject", just a typical infrastructure project. Certainly most of this stuff would not be considered megaprojects in China.
- grecy 2y agoMost of it is just boring old upkeep and maintenance.
- csomar 2y agoI think the problem is that in the US they cost as much as a "real" megaproject in China cost.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> most of this stuff would not be considered megaprojects in China They are and they would. Rebuilding JFK is more complex than building a hundred airfields due to the former’s air traffic load and complexity.
- ramblenode 2y agoJust as a point of comparison, the Abraham Lincoln Bridge from the list of megaprojects measures 640 total meters [1] According to this [2] China's largest 8,816 bridges span a total of 16.21 million linear meters, or an average of 1,838 meters per bridge. So this megaproject bridge in the US might possibly crack the list of the longest 10,000 bridges in China. The Wikipedia list contains only 2 bridges from China. The smaller one is 32 km... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Bridge [2] http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0801/c90000-20052420.html http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0801/c90000-20052420.html *People's Daily, but I think the point still stands.