Ask HN: What are weird large projects that were planned but never completed?

Posted by hubraumhugo on Friday January 28, 2022 @06:33AM
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Re:Ask HN: What are weird large projects that were planned b... by Little_Fish on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:17AM (#30113683)

The Garden Bridge project in London. £53m spent, nothing ever happened... Just a big vanity project led by the former mayor of London.

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Re:Ask HN: What are weird large projects that were planned b... by Someone on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:43AM (#30113870)

I don’t know whether it counts as weird, but there were lots of more or less complete plans to build a Channel tunnel and even some digging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel#Earlier_proposa.... Funny quotes: “concerns about hordes of tourists who would disrupt English life”, “a Royal Navy officer in the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development calculated that Hitler could use slave labour to build two Channel tunnels in 18 months. The estimate caused rumours that Germany had already begun digging.”)

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Re:Ask HN: What are weird large projects that were planned b... by idiocrat on Friday January 28, 2022 @06:35AM (#30113384)

Live forever.

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