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Redditing-Dutchman t1_j5wcmem wrote

Here is an awesome timelapse of the whole contruction project. Water had to be pumped out first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZcq3R91YZM

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Persiandoc t1_j5xmd6l wrote

That was amazing

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hour_of_the_rat t1_j5zi9yb wrote

They built all that, and they have a tram?

If they tried to build that in the US, it would have been budgeted for 5 billion dollars, incurred cost overruns, and ended up costing $8.5 billion, three workers would have died, 20% would have been embezzled, generated a dozen lawsuits, 6 people would have gone to jail, one person would have murdered another person's wife, and it would be 4 years overdue. And it would leak constantly.

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misconfigbackspace t1_j60eki5 wrote

What's amazing is that the officials acted rationally with the cost involved and stuck with the plan in letter and spirit. I think everyone needs to look at the Dutch education and political systems as well. We all know the Dutch already have better police than most places due to psychedelics and CSWs being perfectly legal and regulated. There must be more worth learning.

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Stealthy_Snow_Elf t1_j5yxk9f wrote

Yeah NL has really mastered civil engineering, especially when it comes to working with water. They represent the pinnacle of it imo

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_HOG_ t1_j5z0nrz wrote

I’m curious if they’ve mastered budgeting too, this looks like it could easily eclipse $100 million.

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a_talking_face t1_j5z48jg wrote

Yeah I don't think building it is the challenging part. It's paying for it.

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