Comments by "Ggoddkkiller" (@ggoddkkiller1342) on "Montenegro learns true cost of its $1bn road to nowhere | AFP" video.

A billion dollar for only 41 km highway and the worst of all it took 6 years to build??? For a billion dollar Turkey could build entire 171 km long highway in a year maximum!! Whenever such ridiculous agreements are signed with china you can be sure some politicals are getting rich...
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@eaStudioHD Turkey is also one of the most mountainous countries mate and over 80% of land area is covered by mountains same as Montenegro: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Europe_topography_map_en.png/1200px-Europe_topography_map_en.png
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@S N First of all UK is several times more expensive country than Montenegro. Secondly such projects in developed countries always cost more because most of route is privately owned while in Montenegro most of it undeveloped lands. Then you somehow have no idea railroads cost way more than highways especially if they will be operating high speed trains!! While i couldn't varify your 132 billion number exactly (A source would be nice) but it is completely irrelevant to the highway project in Montenegro and highways don't cost that much at all.. For comparison Turkish high speed train cost around 3 billion dollars and it is 465 km long: Construction on the route is taking place in two phases. The first phase is a 251 kilometres (156 mi), $747 million route between Sincan (a district of Ankara) and İnönü, for which construction began in 2003 on a segment between Esenkent and Eskisehir; this segment was completed in 2007. The second phase, between İnönü and Pendik, is about 214 kilometres (133 mi) long, and costs $2.27 billion. The substantially higher price of the second phase is due to more challenging terrain than the first, including 33 bridges and 39 tunnels.
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@freed8mcchaser Fabulous nonsense? Minimum wage is 330 euro in Montenegro while it is 1,600 euro in UK almost FIVE TIMES higher!! So the real nonsense here somehow trying to use UK costs as a reference for Montenegro while in reality even Turkey is FAR more developed than Montenegro. In underdeveloped countries like Montenegro such projects cost way way less because less labour cost, less land cost, less material cost and instead of defending such nonsenses you should learn a little bit economics.. Also i shared the cost of Turkish high speed train which was around 3 billion dollars and it is 465 km long: Construction on the route is taking place in two phases. The first phase is a 251 kilometres (156 mi), $747 million route between Sincan (a district of Ankara) and İnönü, for which construction began in 2003 on a segment between Esenkent and Eskisehir; this segment was completed in 2007. The second phase, between İnönü and Pendik, is about 214 kilometres (133 mi) long, and costs $2.27 billion. The substantially higher price of the second phase is due to more challenging terrain than the first, including 33 bridges and 39 tunnels. So Turkey builds 465 long high speed rail for 3 billion dollars while UK builds 580 km rail line for 132 billion dollars somehow!! I think this number is absurd even for UK so it is either wrong information or the project isn't just rail line rather other construction projects are involved. For example Spain is planning another high cost project to replace and modernize existing rail lines for Madrid area and Madrid station will be moved into underground while parks, apartments etc will be built to ground level. Such a project ofc costs many times more than just rail line for obvious reasons...
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