 There's so much I want to say about Barbie, but you haven't seen it. I'm going to try it while I'm in Missouri, but we'll see if I can get away. Going again, going again on Friday, because I want to hear you. I asked because Alexis and Mike are going to do a sleepover. And I wanted to know if they wanted to go see it. And I didn't realize that Mike had already seen it. And I, Alexis hadn't, she was totally down for it. She wanted to ask him if he was OK seeing it again. And I didn't know what he thought of it. She said his reply was, and she quoted Micah. Yes, Queen, that movie, Super Hot Fire. Sounds like Micah. Hey, welcome back to our Superdirection Corbin. He's grown from it's pretty good. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and more. She's kind of the experience for us, so it becomes a good like button. Today we've got a video. This is called Mumbai, India's Transforming Mega City. Mumbai, India's Transforming Mega City. This just goes over. It's transportation. There's like five big mega projects under construction right now in transportation. We saw a video about how Mumbai has to build up when it comes to housing. Yeah, yeah, in futuristic cities. We've seen some. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is kind of goes over that if you live in Mumbai and know about these. But obviously, please let us know what you're thinking about these. If the information is wrong, I didn't make the video. We're just watching it. We've been to Mumbai once. We spent how many days were we in Mumbai? Because we were there the longest. What, six days? I think something like that. Love Mumbai five or six days. Yeah, we really love the vibe. I would love to go back. It's a beautiful city. We will next time we go. Yep, big things are happening in India's financial and entertainment capital. It's all it's view is so iconic is nearing 25 million and it's land surrounded by water, making it the world's second most densely populated major city. I wonder what the first is. Major city, New York, but there's hope that a set of five transportation projects Tokyo under construction, stands in just on the island. Yeah, ease the movement of people and goods and help position it to become a global power center by the middle of the century. This is Mumbai, the transforming mega city. Surrounded by the Arabian Sea, Mumbai, which means mother in Marathi, local language, is the heart of the state of Maharashtra. I didn't know that either. The second most populous country subdivision on earth and the single largest contributor to India's economy. What was a group of islands were by 1845, merged into one landmass through multiple land reclamation projects. But it was a turning point in American history that did arguably the most to place Mumbai on its modern path. Had it not been for the Civil War of the United States, Mumbai probably wouldn't have been as important a city as it is today. Really? That source of raw cotton for the newly industrialized England suddenly dried up into the Civil War. Simultaneously, they managed to open the Suez Canal, which cut the journey to London to one third. So what was the 90 day journey became a 30 day journey. When you come out of the Suez and you come out of the Red Sea, the port dead ahead was Mumbai. Wow. So Mumbai just happened to be in the right place. Wow, I didn't know that. The whole of Maharashtra's rich cultural culture. One of the things the British brought to us in the railways, we need to move goods from the hinterland directly to the port. And the port really grew like mad. Makes sense. Today, Mumbai's seaport handles most of the container traffic. We've been there. And in that hotel. Yeah. And in India, creating many jobs for its residents. Ramesh Shinde commits by train to work. I love this video so far. Oh, we're going to shipbuilding company. Mazagan dock building submarines. You've already built five submarines and we're currently building the sixth. Oh, well, don't let rich people on it. The prospect of good, stable employment has been attracting people from across India for decades. You shall work on. We have a huge problem of people migrating to the metros. You can't prevent people from coming to the city of Mumbai. They have as much right to come here as any other Indian. You either figure out how to make things better or you vote in people to figure out how to make things better. The challenge is that the city's population has grown far faster than their government's ability to build infrastructure. And it's been happening for so long now that no matter who they elect, there's a lot of catching up. And that's not uncommon for a big popular city. L.A. To try and get up with the needs of the city. But from the 1970s onwards, we had a lot of setbacks in spending money. We had a complete lack of force. Same with L.A. When you reach 10 million people and your infrastructure is good for two. Yeah. Yeah. And you've been up in infrastructure. And we don't have the train system either. That is already surpassed 15 million. And it's in hand. And then there's the 110 freeway on ramps. Close the gap. Five. Designed to go 40 miles an hour. Are happening at the same time. Hmm. The first is the We did throw one of the most ambitious and important transit initiatives in history. Right now, we'll talk about it. The way is lifeline of Mumbai. This suburban railway carries around nine million passengers. The new metro network, which we are creating, will be carrying around seven million. My stars, they're almost doubling it. Almost doubling. Yeah. And modernizing it to gigantic tunnel. Hey, for being used to construct eight lines at the same time through the living city, they can't come soon enough. Yeah. The existing suburban railway is completely maxed out. Yeah. Carrying three times more passengers than originally intended. Oh, geez. Wow. Could you handle that? No. Not only is this I would not go on. stressful, it's dangerous. Around 2,000 people die every year on these trucks. Oh, my word. Conditions that cause constant delay. 2,000. There is no fast train. And it doesn't come on time. If the train on the central line doesn't come on time, then we miss the connecting western line train. It is difficult to get on the train for a non-moonbiker. It can get very crowded. I'm a local and I can't even get on the Virar train. The first two above ground metro lines opened earlier this year to positive reviews. With the metro, we sit in air conditioning and travel for 30 rupees. So it is very convenient. Is it affordable? Otherwise, imagine how much money one would spend on a taxi or a rickshaw. You have to go as far as they're going. Most important arterial line will run 33 kilometers. I bet that makes the traffic even worse than it already is. Historic buildings. This is going to be the first underground metro that the city is going to witness. I live right outside what is going to be an underground metro station soon. I think it's going to make traveling very convenient. That's great. And it's underground. Spectacularly wonderful need. Does it stop by Shah Rukh Khan's house? Of the city. The way the networks are being built right now. It's made connectivity so much easier and convenient. That's going to be a huge blessing to the city. I wish we had. A metro line and from there... Public transport. I remember speaking to R.A. Rajeev. He said that while the first metro project took about 10 years, they were really hoping to make the rest of the lines quicker. And we're seeing that. We're seeing that happen in the rest of the city, the suburbs. The current plan is for 14 lines to make up a 360 kilometer network. Spectacular. It'll also help ease traffic congestion. Yeah. And emissions, not deer in construction. Rukh Khan is very, very stressful. Clutch break, clutch break. There's a lot of traffic. Especially in India. It isn't a... Driving a car is very difficult. And what's more difficult than driving is parking. That's also a problem. It is wild. You all know it. Live in there. Mumbai's layout means its most popular areas are in its southern end, like Bollywood, India's booming film and media industry. Many of its stars live in Bandra, a lush upscale neighborhood. A little further south is the city's historic heart, home to government agencies, the main business district and university, luxury hotels, and famous landmarks. Including the Gateway of India, the Shatrapati Shivaji Terminus Railway Station, and the ensemble of Victorian and Art Deco buildings that face each other across all Vomit on. It's really pretty. However, this area is so congested that it can take well over an hour to get to the airport by car. That's where project number two comes in. The coastal road will be a 29.2 kilometer expressway that will cut this travel time to just 20 to 25 minutes when it opens next year. As a civil engineer, it's a dream project. It has everything that a civil engineer can dream of, including reclamation, seawall, wow. We've had some world records on this also. We've had 456 meters of mining in a month, which has never happened. Oh, damn. The Coastal Road Project was a dream in India. And now it is being built. So there's a lot of progress in India. So it's like the PCH. The project also creates 10-mile kilometers of nonstop waterfront promenade with various green spaces. That's wonderful. It will improve ease of travel to Sanjay Gandhi National Park, the world's largest tropical urban forest. Oh, wow. However, the highway will also be a massive concrete barrier that cuts off much of the seafront, replacing that view with loud vehicle traffic. Oh. I'm happy about that research. It can be found in the U.S. cities of Seattle and Boston, which recently spent billions to open up access to their precious waterfronts by tearing down viaduct highways to re-root traffic through new... Everybody who has property along there is pissed off. Yeah, for sure. Other concerns include encouraging more car ownership, which could make air pollution and traffic worse. Right. That it neglects the needs of carless residents who make up a majority of the city's population. Yep. It seems to ignore perhaps the city's biggest threat. Climate change. When you build roads which are one kilometers into the sea, you need more roads to be built to connect that. You're increasing your built infrastructure that increases cost, that increases the damage that you're doing to the environment. You're reclaiming your seas for this. A lot of stuff that needs to be factored in. There is a threat of the city submerging. Yeah. We need to seriously think about whether a coastal road is really going to benefit the city. Depends on how high that road is. Yeah. Are we going to see more waterlogging incidents during the rain? None of that has really been thought of. Why? Yeah, that's... When bikers call elevated highways like the coastal road, flyovers. Another one is the Saury-Worley connector, the third major project. It will cut through the island. The swirly, whirly gumdrops. Uninterrupted from coast to coast. This taxi driver is constantly navigating its construction. Based on conversations with his customers, he has a good idea of how this new piece of infrastructure... It looks like LA, actually. Yeah. The high road, high freeways. The bridge is built. The locals who have to go into the suburbs will go from below. The rest of the people will go up over the flyover. So we first had a whole series of flyovers in Mumbai, but they were all north-south. So East West connectivity was terrible. Oh, okay. Kourush lives in the satellite city of Navi, Mumbai, which will benefit from the fourth project. The Trans Harbor Link is a 21.8 kilometer bridge for vehicles to quickly cross the bay-like inlet of the Arabian Sea. It's like getting from Pinellas Park to Tampa Bay. When it opens this year, it will be the longest sea bridge in the country. Damn. It is not just a transportation corridor. How do they do it? Yeah, that looks like Tampa. The engine of economic growth. So what this bridge does is, actually, it brings the mainland within a distance of about 15 minutes, adding a huge land parcel to Mumbai. With the bridge in place, the fifth project makes a lot of sense. The Navi-Mumbai International Airport will provide what many other global cities already have, one airport dedicated to international flights, and a second for domestic travelers. The Billionaire Airport. With an urban area nearly twice as dense as the national capital, it is vital that Mumbai's transportation system works. So even though these five big projects have taken decades, now that the steel has been laid in the concrete port, an even more ambitious vision is emerging. The city has transformed. We are moving towards becoming a mega-police. We're looking at something all the way to the Gujarat border in the north, to Murbaad in the east, and to Manukau, on the Bombay-Goha highway in the south. Wow. That's what we've realized the city of Mumbai is going to be. Wow. And that's the Mumbai metropolitan region ultimately. But an example of the constantly evolving trade-offs to continual development is Gurai, a part of the city that has remained fairly immune to its sprawl. Lying just across Manori Creek, it is only accessible from the south by ferry. In the evening, the place is totally deserted. You don't feel like you're in Mumbai. This is a beautiful place. Hillary has seen firsthand just how fast things are changing. Now people are crazy for money. Everybody wants a fast line. Yeah, everybody has sold a property. Before it was, there was not a single wall over here. Now since you buy the property, you can sell your own wall. Hillary says he's content, making about eight US dollars a day, even though he has to spend hours driving 15 kilometers to the closest compressed natural gas flow and wait in line each time he needs to fill up. Authorities want to build a bridge to connect Gurai and its beaches to the rest of the city. They say this will give residents like him more services like gas pumps. They'll give you options. If you need a gas pump over here, you have to construct the bridge. To win something, you're losing something. But if they construct the bridge, they're not, the duty of this place is going to vanish. A man grows on everything. Everything will be disappeared over here. No land will be saved. So even though his income could improve, he doesn't want the bridge. He thinks it will ruin the relatively quiet life he and his wife enjoy among the water absorbing mangrove ecosystem that helps protect them from rising seas. Yeah. Most of the rest of Mumbai's mangroves have been completely destroyed. Nobody else is destroying the nature. We ourselves are destroying the nature and we are blaming the nature. What nature can do? Nature needs to stand still. Take care of the nature. Everything will be fine. If you play with the nature, you have to pay the fine. If you cooperate with the nature, nature will cooperate with you. Great video. Wow. Yeah, that is a great video. That is a great video. It really goes over so much. One, a bunch of really interesting, massive projects that obviously is probably due to India's booming economy and growth. And growth. And growing them in their cheaper labor. Yeah. That's one of the reasons we can't get anything done here is because the labor is so expensive here. Yeah. But it's also a double-edged sword for a lot of these projects. It's like, even though, yeah, it looks like all these projects would be great, there's so many factors you need to look into. And there's pros and cons always. There's always big pros and cons for us. We don't live there. You need to talk to more of the locals and what they think about it. Does the pro of having so much more access to like highways, new highways, different parts of the city, a new airport, outweigh the benefit of losing good views? Also, does it benefit people that don't have cars? Right. How much that guy, is it gonna take away from the natural beauty and then all the ecological side effects that you're gonna get from it? Right. I think they should definitely have looked into the climate ramifications. It's kind of weird that if they didn't... It's kind of weird they did not take that into consideration. Obviously, that lady says they didn't. And so we're taking her at her word. Right. But I feel like you shouldn't do anything nowadays without looking into the ramifications. Especially coastal. Yeah. Yeah. If you're coastal. You're gonna be one of the first places hit with when the proverbial shoe drops. Right. I mean, it's just, it's not a matter of if it's gonna happen. It's going to happen. There's going to be an increase in the sea levels on the coastal cities. And you have to be prepared for that prospect. So yeah, sure, coastal city build a road, but you really need to take into consideration. And sadly, what often happens and they alluded to it here is, it's the poor and the have-nots that typically have no voice. And they're just discounted and told get out, we're doing what we want. But I do love the fact that they are, because I wish LA would do a lot of these things. Oh yeah. And underground, like we were supposed to, like if you don't know the history of LA, like back in the 20s, we were supposed to have a underground metro system that of New York. Right. At the same time, New York was creating ifs. Everyone here was talking similarly as LA began to grow. Unfortunately, the car companies, Ford and all of them at the time, bought it out and shut it down because they thought it was gonna eat into the profits. They lobbied together. Wonderful. Made it a car city. And so now we have the worst traffic in the world. It's really insane because for square mileage, Los Angeles County is the biggest county in America. And we have the worst rapid transit system. You are, it's a car dependent city. It's nowhere, unless you live in like West Hollywood in the heart of West Hollywood or the heart of. Or the heart of downtown. The downtown, North Hollywood, Santa Monica. And you only, like your job is down there. Right. But if it's not, you have to have a car here. If you don't, you can do Uber. You're gonna spend so much. And you're gonna spend a lot of money. So really Uber is not anything that can be used consistently by working class or lower. Only public transport. We have his buses and they suck. And the amount of time it takes because there aren't any specifically direct lines. You almost always have to have connections. Except for the green line. So a trip by car. Example, if I make a trip by car to come to Corbin without traffic, we're doing an evening reaction to something. It takes me about 17 minutes. If I were to do that same trip via bus, it's gonna take me almost 90 minutes. And so I wish, like I wish one, even though California is like the fourth largest economy in the world, and we do have a lot of money, but in terms of what it costs, because there's a project that's been gone going for a millennia. They take so long. Making a bullet train from LA to Vegas. To Vegas. And they're doing it. But it seems like it's been taking. Forever. 25 years that they've just trying to start it. And it's needed because people go back and forth from LA and Vegas all the time. And yeah, bullet trains. America has like two bullet trains in. Really, really bad. Yeah. So I wish like we had the capital and the wanting to do these. And Mumbai clearly saw this coming and did what they needed to do as fast as they can possibly be getting it done because the city has been growing exponentially. And it looks like it's pretty far along. They've been killing it. So anyways, if you're familiar with any of these projects, obviously, if you're working on them, if you live in Mumbai, what do you think about these projects? Yeah. Are you happy with them? What don't we know? Yeah. Any information they didn't give, please inform us. Cause obviously we're just, this is all we know. And if you're there on the ground, you'll probably know a lot more and have more opinions obviously, cause it's affecting you in positive or negative ways. Yeah. Anyways, let us know in any other videos we can react to down below. Josh!