Most Useless Megaprojects in the World !

Most Useless Megaprojects in the World !

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Who knew – spending an absurd amount of money doesn’t always equal utility. In today’s video, we take you on a tour of projects done at top-dollar prices but failed to be useful as intended.
15 Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
Yucca Mountain in Nevada is away from major settlements and made up of volcanic ash – two major reasons that made it a favorite for a nuclear waste dumping site. But Nevadans don’t seem to view it that way – which is why the multi-billion-dollar project has stalled for over 30 years.
With over $17 billion spent on the repository, the US government has yet to use the mountain thanks to a slew of objects from Nevada residents. According to them, their state is being used as a dumping ground for nuclear waste considering that Nevada itself doesn’t have a single nuclear power plant.
The future of the repository is now uncertain with the Biden Administration going ahead to completely cut off funding.
14 NHS National Program for IT
Spearheaded by the UK’s Department of Health, this project was meant to bring all public patient records under one electronic roof on top of connecting some 30,000 doctors to 300 hospitals.
Too bad this never came to fruition despite the resultant cost going several times above the initial estimates.
Planned to be implemented over three years from 2002, the original cost had been placed at just over $3 billion. But three years into the project, the costs had ballooned to over $14 billion while the completion timeline had moved to at least 10 years.
And even more serious was that the project wasn’t as useful as initially envisioned which meant continuing with it made no sense. So in 2011, the program was discarded – but not before it had swallowed up $12 billion.
13 Cross-Florida Barge Canal
Dating back as far as the 1570s, the Cross-Florida Barge Canal has a surprisingly long history. Its aim? To shorten shipping times by connecting the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. For some reason, though, the idea was abandoned until the 19th century when Florida came under the US but the canal’s construction didn’t start until later during the 20th century under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Official digging of the canal started in 1935 but would be stopped a year later due to environmental concerns. The starting and stopping became a trend for the rest of the canal’s history for the single concern of how it might impact the environment.
Subsequent presidents tried to keep the project going but in 1991, it was officially stopped with a total expenditure of $120 million.
12 Xiangyun International Project
Found in China's Hebei province, the Xiangyun International Project is a three billion-dollar city that doesn’t just seem that useful, years after its completion. As it has always been the norm with such projects, the city is meant for the rich, featuring a residential area with pricey apartments and a commercial side with equally high-end business spaces.
But the only piece that would make the city complete – people – is missing.
While lots of units had already been sold, the owners couldn't move in as the project was seized by the Chinese government after the developer was convicted of corruption charges. Deterioration and stray animals are now the order of the day in the multi-billion-dollar project.
11 Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
Dubbed by Forbes as the world’s emptiest airport, Sri Lanka’s Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport was completed in 2013, four years after construction began.
With a hefty cost of $210 million, the airport is pretty modern with the ability to handle at least a million passengers every year.
But just a year after it was officially opened, it was clear that the million mark was more like a dream. Just 3,000 flights went through the airport bringing the total number of passengers to a measly 50,000.
The low demand subsequently pushed airlines to cancel operations in the airport which would later be briefly used for rice storage.
10 Ciudad Real International Airport
Ciudad Real International Airport was built for $1.1 billion and with capabilities of handling at least 10 million passengers per year, the megaproject was meant to relieve the main airport in Madrid.
From the onset, that wasn’t a very good idea.
The airport is about 140 miles away from the capital which certainly didn’t sit well with most would-be travelers.

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