@@lookingforsomething Let's do the math. 72000 people per hour. A six lane highway can carry about 6000 cars per hour (which is the same in people most of the time). So it could probably replace every single car passing a bridge or tunnel going into and out of New Yorks Manhattan island.
Munich has a similar problem. We have a population of 1,5 million and during the 16 days of Oktoberfest the festival has around 6-7 million visitors that need housing and transportation. It's a logistical nightmare.
Munich also has these super old trains on many lines which makes it so much scarier. Last time i was there for Oktoberfest the train was so full it couldn’t properly brake anymore. I ended up getting the hell out and walking the rest of the way to Theresienwiese
I have been there a couple of times and its actually very well organized. So no logistic nightmare there. Of course, the U-Bahn could get crowded.. but its crowded any other day as well.
@@MrMoccachinoo It is well organized. But to make it that organized it takes an insane amount of preparation. That preparation is the logistical nightmare. The city has to prepare for millions of visitors, many of which get severely drunk. There are a lot of safety concerns beyond the sheer number of people. Visitors just don’t usually see the insanity that goes on behind the scenes.
About the Mecca stuff: Imagine living in a small town with about 24000 inhabitants, and every summer about one million people come by, with the peak number of tourist being about 50 000. And Visby is by no means extreme as a tourist destination.
Unfortunately, since Saudi Arabia never completed the other metro lines, pilgrims are still faced with a Hajj-podge of different transportation options.
0:19 and 4:04 is Vienna (secund one is the U1 which uses the color red in it's stations) 4:39 is Budapest, as you can see for a brief Moment an hungarian add. Greetings from Vienna 🚂
@@elliotw.888 Imagine my disappointment when I found out that having a beard, and general knowledge about Islam, wouldn't be enough to ride this train!
"Stampede" is a misnomer and most of those people didn't die from getting stepped on. The more accurate term is "crowd crush". When amount of people in an area becomes too high, people can no longer breathe since they're tightly sandwiched between each other, and die from suffocation. "Stampede" creates the impression that the deaths were caused by panicking humans callously stepping on others. But in a crowd crush, the people aren't at fault. Those in the middle where deaths happen are unable to even move individually due to the pressure of the crowd. And people at the edges freely moving towards the center don't know how bad the situation in the middle is. Crowd crushes are caused by organizers letting too many people into an area.
Be careful. The Danish journalist who drew the Mohammed in slightly awkward pose was hunted for decades by extremists who... apparantly believe in their God... extremely... and, if I'm not mistaken, that guy's life was practically over. Wasn't he at the end finally killed by the extreme god lovers? So - remember, no ridiculing in respect to muslims, not even close, if you don't want to be haunted, that is.
@@hedgehog3180 you mean like the big clock tower? You're right. Why would they build that shit to make people look at that rather than the holy Ka'aba?
@@hedgehog3180 yeah they also completely crumbled all the mountains that used to surround the Kaaba, why couldn't they have just made them outside and just have high speed rails travelling to and from, now you have that giant monstrosity just looming above
3:26 Saudi here‚ in 2015 the government halted all projects and began a mass corruption crackdown as many of the projects were found to be draining the states coffers and were involved in corruption scandals. All projects underwent a "balancing the books" period‚ a lot of projects that were deemed "unnecessary" were shut down Projects that were already or partially completed were changed to fit different (and more realistic needs) and those found to be necessary were completed or unhalted.
Found the MBS meat rider. The fact is MBS doesn't care about Mecca and would rather spend the entire GDP of Saudi Arabia on building a giant mirror in the desert for some reason
Planes are great when trains are impossible/impractical (ie oceanic crossings, extremely rugged terrain, or very long trips). But for the every day movement of lots of people from where they live to where they work, study, shop, and recreate, if its too far to walk or bike, nothing beats a train at efficiency and capacity.
I think it's worth mentioning that not every Muslim is obliged to go, but rather every one who is able to make the journey. Really cool video otherwise, I always love when you talk about trains.
It's more specifically everyone who is able to go, if you're too sick or something else prevents you from doing it isn't like a sin to not do it. But it's something you're supposed to put effort into doing.
As a Muslim born person who's lived in the middle east and knows random trivia and historical facts about a wide range of useless topics, I feel like I should have known about this earlier 😅
@@AuxenceF a cube can be made of two triangular prisms, but not two pyramids. The two opposing "peaks" have to be edges, not vertices An octahedron is two pyramids facing out, though
Actually, even though they have to operate at 200% capacity, some metro lines in Japan have surpassed Saudi Arabia’s best train lines. Also, raise your hand if you already knew before clicking this would be about the train used for the Hajj
There’s this thing called a Philly Taco where people take a cheesesteak from Jim’s on South Street and put it inside a (giant) pizza slice from Lorenzo’s down the street which is pretty much that
1:40 ok, Muslim here. Slight correction, it's not "every practicing Muslim is obliged to go at least once in their life" it's "every practicing Muslim is obliged to go at least once in their life IF they can afford it" (physically, mentally, financially, medically, basically if by every reasonable factor you *can* go then you are obliged to go at least once in your life).
Thank you for clarifying, it always seemed odd to make a Muslim guilty just because they can't afford to travel to Mecca, especially if they come from far away countries such as Indonesia or Morocco.
@@javierm7087 Yeah, it's something that's often forgotten, sadly even by many hard-line Muslims. In the same way, there are a ton of circumstances (pregnancy, weak health, etc etc) that leave Muslims exempt from participating in things like the Ramadan, but you never hear anyone about that either.
@@ADuxk Dude, it's like more than 5000km of distance between Rabat and Mecca. It's like saying Vancouver and New York City are close because they are both in North America
HAI: And Green Bay, the holy city Me: It has to be cheese, it's Wisconsin- HAI: in alcoholism Me: *...well I guess that too* If we count historically, the most infrequently used metro system would be Moscow's Metro-2, a system built that in case of mass chaos/protest/disaster war, was meant to spirit away high-ranking Communist Party members out of the city center and into the safety of military facilities in the outskirts. The rails were even drowned in concrete, so cars could move through the tunnels as well
You used the picture of a very old version of the Saudi Riyal. The picture you used is of the third series of Saudi Riyal (which was used almost 50 years ago). The current series is the seventh series
I enjoy that he leaves the mistakes in. A bunch are intentional as it drives engagement (see this thread as evidence) and makes for the potential for an additional video for mistakes, to drive further engagement... Works like a dream
Someone somewhere has probably tried to use a deep dish pizza as the “bread” for a cheesesteak. Not sure if that put them in the hospital, or just made them run for the toilet…
China: What kind of transportation is best? Saudi Arabia: That's a ridiculous question China: *False, trains* Saudi Arabia, letting them build a metro: That's debatable... Also "religious pyramid", the only religious pyramid I know is the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee. It is an Americana obligation to make the pilgrimage.
As a wisconsinite i can confirm that Green Bay is a damn drunk town. Wisco drinking culture is wild, even in small towns. My 1.1k pop. town had 13 bars, or 1 per 85 people. Each one was packed and on each hour its custom to move bars if you arent in a game or something. So almost each hour i would see a stubling pack of drunks moving down about half a block to the next bar. Fun place
There's literally a town in my province that has 2 bars, a saloon, a tavern, and a pub, and there are only 20 houses in the whole town. I pass through the town every now and then and I wonder exactly how the heck they stay in business.
Let me guess: there’s some sort event that only happens seven days a year in this particular city, so they created a train just to increase transport capacity during that specific event
I get that it was specifically designed to serve pilgrims, but is there no demand at all for the route from locals for the remainder of the year even on a drastically-reduced capacity?
You don't have to, especially if you are a local you must have performed Hajj. Also Hajj is an obligation that needs to be done only once, after that you can perform Umrah which does not go to these places. So, these places are especially visited by those who are performing Hajj for the first time.
From what I can see in the Google maps the line basically runs from the place where half the pilgrims stay to another place where The other half of the pilgrims stay but this time within walking distance to the mosque, so it really doesn't take you anywhere if you're not a pilgrim.
The other (unbuilt) lines would have had some domestic demand; not so the "Mecca Metro." Imagine a line that goes from town directly to a stadium outside the city, but it's only ever used for the Superbowl; the rest of the year it's empty. No reason to use the metro otherwise.
Mecca is planning other metro lines that would be a day to day transit system. Possibly the biggest overcapacity was with South Africa's apartheid era township trains. 5000 riders packed into an 11 car train with maximum safe capacity of 2000. Hanging out doors and riding on couplers. Eased up by the late 1980s when South Africa deregulated transport and began breaking up its big monopolies.
Really? Please come and see the overcrowding nowadays. And there are also hardly any trains left. Complete train stations being stolen. Inclusive of the brick and mortar. Overcrowding during apartheid? Pfft.
Not quite one day a year; it also runs for other major race days at that club, as well as event transportation for events at the Showgrounds; and even when not used for that some off-duty trains will be stabled there overnight or outside of peak hours.
I was in the hajj 2016 I waited 3 hours to get into the metro so walking became my best optaion its only one day that you have to use it also 4:16 the price is wrong its 300 riyals 80$ for the whole 7 days
The Hong Kong MTR East Rail line has a capacity of 92950 people per hour per direction, which is far more than the Mecca Metro. Prior to the pandemic it operated 12-car trains (capacity 3712) at 25 trains per hour.
The two most interesting things I learned from this are : 1. The Hajj happens at a specific time of year and only lasts a week (I always assumed that Muslims could just go whenever). 2. It's illegal for infidels to enter Mecca. I've never particularly wanted to go, but I'm surprised to learn that I can't. It makes sense that you would have to be a Muslim to visit the Kaaba, but I'm surprised you can't even enter the city.
1. Muslims can go whenever, its called Umrah, but Hajj itself is a pillar of Islam, and only takes place in 1 week 2. “Infidels” lmao, there isnt any reason for non-muslims to go there, its a random city in the middle of the desert
The Type-A metro carriage in this line was imported from China and carries 310 pax per car at 100% capacity, while Japanese E235-0 series carries 1724 pax per train which gives us 156 pax per car. This means this Saudi "standard capacity" was already at 200% capacity in Japanese standards. The Chuō Line rapid service sends about 30 trains each carrying 3000 pax towards Tokyo per hour in the morning rush hours, which gives us 90000/hr(the actual numbers pre-pandemic is about 81000) so JR East still wins... Even if we don't take the peak 289% capacity rate reached in 1965 into consideration.
That's fair, although I guess it depends on your definition of "wrote" "He wrote it down, but he wasn't the author" is my understanding of the situation. Granted I'm not Muslim so that interpretation may be incorrect.
1:25 The Quran wasn’t written by Mohammad, in fact he was illiterate, The quran was verbally revealed from God to Mohammad and was memorized by people for years, and was first fully written about 23 years from it was first revealed.
Wow, I don't know why, but the fact that you used stock footage from the Vienna metro twice (0:20 and 4:04) in one video makes me very happy. And yes, I'm Viennese
The statement about statistics is... 100% accurate! My family isn't Muslim but there's more than 4 of us and I was the one who was picked to go to Mecca. I even rode this exact train!
For everyone's information, dying at Hajj was always a risk throughout the history, and it is recommended that Muslims pay their debt and write their will.
@@Dfathurr Bro I feel like HAI predicted the future since this video was published the day before a stampede/crush event killing 9 people at a concert...
Trains in Tokyo definitely surpass this when they operate around 200% capacity
I guess you never heard about trains in Mumbai but they're not metros
You have definitely made Sam very angry.
>:(
@@part-timebrock1126 they run at 300% capacity
they are better because they actually run year round too
I was lost until he put the 50,000 buses into perspective.
For me i as soon as he said Mecca i was like that makes sense.
After he put 50,000 busses into perspective everything fell into place
I wish he had put that figure into cars after just to drive home how insanely efficient trains are compared to cars in the first place.
same
@@lookingforsomething Let's do the math. 72000 people per hour.
A six lane highway can carry about 6000 cars per hour (which is the same in people most of the time).
So it could probably replace every single car passing a bridge or tunnel going into and out of New Yorks Manhattan island.
Munich has a similar problem. We have a population of 1,5 million and during the 16 days of Oktoberfest the festival has around 6-7 million visitors that need housing and transportation. It's a logistical nightmare.
Yeah but where else will I get the privilege of paying 13€ for a maß?
Munich also has these super old trains on many lines which makes it so much scarier. Last time i was there for Oktoberfest the train was so full it couldn’t properly brake anymore. I ended up getting the hell out and walking the rest of the way to Theresienwiese
I have been there a couple of times and its actually very well organized. So no logistic nightmare there.
Of course, the U-Bahn could get crowded.. but its crowded any other day as well.
My kind of Hajj
@@MrMoccachinoo It is well organized. But to make it that organized it takes an insane amount of preparation. That preparation is the logistical nightmare. The city has to prepare for millions of visitors, many of which get severely drunk. There are a lot of safety concerns beyond the sheer number of people. Visitors just don’t usually see the insanity that goes on behind the scenes.
The fact that they can operate the metro at 200% capacity in Japan is in itself pretty impressive.
About the Mecca stuff:
Imagine living in a small town with about 24000 inhabitants, and every summer about one million people come by, with the peak number of tourist being about 50 000.
And Visby is by no means extreme as a tourist destination.
@@57thorns ask Lucca Comics
Trust me when I say Mumbai's local trains are way more crowded than Tokyo's metro rail
They literally hire people to shovel passages onto train so there’s that.
@@vishalsyoutube Mumbai's local trains are overcrowded and dangerous, Japan is efficient and safe, there is a huge difference there.
Unfortunately, since Saudi Arabia never completed the other metro lines, pilgrims are still faced with a Hajj-podge of different transportation options.
Saw what you did there. 😉
Ohh, you 🤣
I saw what you did. 😏
Hey did the 3 of you guys see what he did by chance?
Can you name that are not completed
as a train nerd i am having a GREAT time identifying the stock footage
you gon convert to Islam to see this train?
@@elliotw.888 Lmao why is this funny
0:19 and 4:04 is Vienna (secund one is the U1 which uses the color red in it's stations)
4:39 is Budapest, as you can see for a brief Moment an hungarian add.
Greetings from Vienna 🚂
@@elliotw.888 Imagine my disappointment when I found out that having a beard, and general knowledge about Islam, wouldn't be enough to ride this train!
1:45 oman muscat
"Stampede" is a misnomer and most of those people didn't die from getting stepped on. The more accurate term is "crowd crush". When amount of people in an area becomes too high, people can no longer breathe since they're tightly sandwiched between each other, and die from suffocation.
"Stampede" creates the impression that the deaths were caused by panicking humans callously stepping on others. But in a crowd crush, the people aren't at fault. Those in the middle where deaths happen are unable to even move individually due to the pressure of the crowd. And people at the edges freely moving towards the center don't know how bad the situation in the middle is. Crowd crushes are caused by organizers letting too many people into an area.
For example: the Hillsboro disaster
@@seamusmckeon9109 This entire channel is designed to attract "um actually" people.
@@seamusmckeon9109 are you a child? this is legitimate interesting clearification
Be careful. The Danish journalist who drew the Mohammed in slightly awkward pose was hunted for decades by extremists who... apparantly believe in their God... extremely... and, if I'm not mistaken, that guy's life was practically over. Wasn't he at the end finally killed by the extreme god lovers? So - remember, no ridiculing in respect to muslims, not even close, if you don't want to be haunted, that is.
@@JurisKankalis that's not how it works
“In Saudi Arabia”
Oh it’s the Hajj it’s definitely for the hajj
I got there a moment before he mentioned the country. I'm so proud of myself!
Mecca is the only place the Saudis are gonna build any kind of reasonable infrastructure. They're obviously still gonna build the stupid shit though.
@@kazisamir3411 lol it’s not even open yet, it’s in a trial phase still
@@hedgehog3180 you mean like the big clock tower? You're right. Why would they build that shit to make people look at that rather than the holy Ka'aba?
@@hedgehog3180 yeah they also completely crumbled all the mountains that used to surround the Kaaba, why couldn't they have just made them outside and just have high speed rails travelling to and from, now you have that giant monstrosity just looming above
3:26
Saudi here‚ in 2015 the government halted all projects and began a mass corruption crackdown as many of the projects were found to be draining the states coffers and were involved in corruption scandals.
All projects underwent a "balancing the books" period‚ a lot of projects that were deemed "unnecessary" were shut down
Projects that were already or partially completed were changed to fit different (and more realistic needs) and those found to be necessary were completed or unhalted.
What kind of idiot deemed metro lines for Mecca as unnecessary?
Found the MBS meat rider. The fact is MBS doesn't care about Mecca and would rather spend the entire GDP of Saudi Arabia on building a giant mirror in the desert for some reason
Sam: 'The best form of transportation is a train.'
Planes: *"I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL!!!*
i mean like at least trains dont produce co2
@@Skyymon If they are electrically powered by renewable sources, then yes, they don't.
Planes are great when trains are impossible/impractical (ie oceanic crossings, extremely rugged terrain, or very long trips). But for the every day movement of lots of people from where they live to where they work, study, shop, and recreate, if its too far to walk or bike, nothing beats a train at efficiency and capacity.
lol
That's from Sam from wendover productions not Sam from half as interesting
(Running out of plane topics)
HAI: Let's go for trains!
Adam Something will be pissed! Or have a field day, I not sure which ^^
@@benghazi4216 nah that guy loves trains...I'm sure he won't mind another train fanatic
He can't talk about planes and Saudia at the same time
based, trains are lovely
@@tabloosempakharhor5300 get out.
If anyone's wondering, the font at 3:43 is called Vivaldi.
God bless all of the typography nerds of the world
*Thank you,* I tried some of the font identification sites but had no luck.
Then I thought about checking the comments! 😘
When you said Vivaldi I instinctively cranked the volume up and was surprised when I don’t here any violins…
Like the browser
@@Shuker8964 same
I think it's worth mentioning that not every Muslim is obliged to go, but rather every one who is able to make the journey. Really cool video otherwise, I always love when you talk about trains.
Hope we see this in the next mistakes video
It's more specifically everyone who is able to go, if you're too sick or something else prevents you from doing it isn't like a sin to not do it. But it's something you're supposed to put effort into doing.
@@hedgehog3180 And if you die without doing it, someone else can do it for you.
As a Muslim born person who's lived in the middle east and knows random trivia and historical facts about a wide range of useless topics, I feel like I should have known about this earlier 😅
That’s awesome glad this is the top comment rn!
Absolutely dying with laughter at 1:13 where Sam says "a religious pyramid"
Just a 200 foot tall pile of pilgrims
Its clearly a cube not a pyramid
So I didn't mis-hear him
He was meant to say pilgrimage.
@@scientificpeople02 yes we got that
I had to repeat that part to make sure I didn't mishear it.
1:10 - I myself also love religious pyramids. Aztecs would probably be my favourite. Probably followed by Egyptians.
Especially the cube-shaped pyramids like the one being shown.
@@ZanHecht Technically a cube is just 6 Pyramids where the tops point inwards.
@@hedgehog3180 or two pointing outward
What an ignorant philistine. Mayan pyramids are better than Aztec. It's not all about size you know.
/jk maybe
@@AuxenceF a cube can be made of two triangular prisms, but not two pyramids. The two opposing "peaks" have to be edges, not vertices
An octahedron is two pyramids facing out, though
A religious pyramid? I think pilgrimage was what you meant. Can't wait for All Our Mistakes 6: The Editor Strikes Back.
a chunk of black stone lol
A shiny polished pyramid would be kinda cool tho xD
He means they spontaneously do cheer pyramids to praise Allah
The subs already struck back
Religious pyramid schemes? I have heard of those.
"Transportation: it's everyone's favorite way of getting somewhere else."
My favorite way is drugs.
Have you tried drugs on trains, tho?
Drugs in trains in VR though?
I prefer sleep.
Welcome to the highland
I prefer sleeping.
As a Green Bay resident, can confirm it is the capital of alcoholism
True facts
@@brianzmek7272 if you’re not getting hammered every weekend, who are you? 😂
As an alcoholic, I’m now planning a pilgrimage to the newfound holy land of my religion
Mate, Have you heard of Australia?
@@phillxor yes, born and raised in Sydney, moved to the States for uni and still there today
"And most cities that care about their citizens"
I'm looking at you, Belgrade
Sorry they're too busy getting keyboard warriors to wage a war against people online on the legitamacy of Kosovo.
I'm looking at you, Sarajevo
"And most cities that have enough money" should have been mentioned 😂
@@luckerhdd3929 Blegrade have money for metro but ATm there is debate where metro line should be built ...
This is what this coment is about
Sadly the metro funds had to be moved to the TikTok budget due to sićve reasons
Actually, even though they have to operate at 200% capacity, some metro lines in Japan have surpassed Saudi Arabia’s best train lines.
Also, raise your hand if you already knew before clicking this would be about the train used for the Hajj
Hand raised!
Yup, the first thing that occurred to me!
me as well .
**sigh** As a Muslim, I'm embarrassed to say that my first thought was some Soviet-Era retro metro. 😅
When he said Saudi Arabia, that's the first thing came into my mind
Me: It's getting late I should slee-
RUclips: Do you want to see Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year?
Me: 'Sure'
It's 2 in the afternoon , why do u want to sleep now?
Very original comment
@@runapan9622 it was actually 8 pm when you said that smh
You must live in Asia or Australia.
You asleep yet?
The Chicago style Philly cheesesteak sounds amazing and I want 12
I mean we Already have Philly Cheesesteak Pizzas, why Not make them deep dish?
pizza steak already exists
There’s this thing called a Philly Taco where people take a cheesesteak from Jim’s on South Street and put it inside a (giant) pizza slice from Lorenzo’s down the street which is pretty much that
@@key-chain Nice!!
I'm sorry what the American is a cheesesteak and why does it sound like ten different crimes against culinary humanity
1:40 ok, Muslim here. Slight correction, it's not "every practicing Muslim is obliged to go at least once in their life" it's "every practicing Muslim is obliged to go at least once in their life IF they can afford it" (physically, mentally, financially, medically, basically if by every reasonable factor you *can* go then you are obliged to go at least once in your life).
Thank you for clarifying, it always seemed odd to make a Muslim guilty just because they can't afford to travel to Mecca, especially if they come from far away countries such as Indonesia or Morocco.
@@javierm7087 Yeah, it's something that's often forgotten, sadly even by many hard-line Muslims. In the same way, there are a ton of circumstances (pregnancy, weak health, etc etc) that leave Muslims exempt from participating in things like the Ramadan, but you never hear anyone about that either.
@@ADuxk Dude, it's like more than 5000km of distance between Rabat and Mecca. It's like saying Vancouver and New York City are close because they are both in North America
@@ADuxk It's quicker to get from morocco to oslo then from morocco to mecca
@@ADuxk Morocco is in North-West Africa
HAI: And Green Bay, the holy city
Me: It has to be cheese, it's Wisconsin-
HAI: in alcoholism
Me: *...well I guess that too*
If we count historically, the most infrequently used metro system would be Moscow's Metro-2, a system built that in case of mass chaos/protest/disaster war, was meant to spirit away high-ranking Communist Party members out of the city center and into the safety of military facilities in the outskirts. The rails were even drowned in concrete, so cars could move through the tunnels as well
Where can we some of that sacred Green Bay beer cheese soup
5:14 “before they sponsored my channels”
“Channels”. Plural. He finally admits that he is Sam from Wendover
Fun fact : Train in my city only runs 7 days in a week
@@tabloosempakharhor5300 dating bots are taking over youtube now
Yeah mine too kinda sad tbh
Lucky you. Trains in my country only run 6 days a week.
Wow mine only runs 168 hours a week
@@SamAronow you have trains that run? here trains ride on a rail.
I have yet to see a train with legs.
So it's not "the biggest metro in the world", it's the "biggest metro LINE in the world." Those are 2 different things.
Let's see if he changes the title
he has
Yes. And this is both of them, since it's a metro that only consists of one line...
Welp. We all know that you are granted to appear in the next HAI mistakes video.
@@kizza9321 There are many metro networks larger than this. It can only claim to be the biggest single line
As someone who calls Green Bay home, I couldn't agree more. 😂
Can I join your religion?
Now wonder why Aaron Rodgers forgot to get vaccinated - he was drunk all the time.
ALL HAIL GREEN BAY AND YOUR ALCOHOLISM!
I know, right
FTP
4:22 I can definitely imagine looking at a headline article saying,"Railfan converts to Islam to ride Mecca metro".
That the viennese metro system is shown as an example makes me really happy. Finally people recognise that Austria exists
*australia
austria is the one with kangaroos in the middle of africa.
HAI: *talks about Mecca metro system*
Some nerd guy from Russia: look, HAI uses footages of St Petersburg metro train on 3:46
And interestingly Vienna at 0:17. I mean it's a good metro system and all but pretty standard (apart from the price)
Interestingly in 2:53, it's a Sri Lankan bus. You can see the poverty
@Hernando Malinche Until we needed cheap labour and invited them back. Most of them came here pre Erdogan though, so they're cool
@@majorfallacy5926 again at 4:03
@@majorfallacy5926 aren't there are mnatives that revert?
yo hai, you should get in touch with a guy called wendover and make a video called the logistics of the hajj. sounds like a perfect colab
You used the picture of a very old version of the Saudi Riyal. The picture you used is of the third series of Saudi Riyal (which was used almost 50 years ago). The current series is the seventh series
I noticed the design too, I don't know much about Saudi Riyal history, but the old printing design of the note gave away its "oldness",
4:37 yey Budapest Metroline M2 stock video!
2:17 As someone from Chicago, I just wanna say, WE LIKE THIN CRUST TOO
THANK YOU!!!
Wait, Sam also talking about train now? Am I dreaming?
I mean now that people have started invading Sam's territory (planes), I guess he figured he'd go invade Adam Something's territory instead.
@@ElectriKong- fair enough
Ground planes
I love your use of clips of the Vienna subway. I found two with one possible that didn't show definitive enough signage...
same goes for me, I love our subway system!!
Yessss U-bahn rules!
Me waiting for the DC metro watching the whole video start to finish
This legendary place called "Greenbay" sounds like a wonderful destination for a pilgrimage.
I can see that this metro line is a giant step forward in sophisticated Mecca-nization. . .
as a muslim i approve this comment.
**slow clap**
1:05 HAI: Green Bay is the number one holy city in...
Me: The Packers
HAI: alcoholism
Me: Oh, makes sense
I thought for sure it was lacrosse
@@Jacks_Bad_Ideas do you mean the sport or the city 🤔
A religious pyramid? ...pilgrimage?
We're gonna see this in the yearly mistake video
I was just about to ask if I had misheard that or if he really said pyramid.
All Our Mistakes 6: The Editor Strikes Back
Yearly mistake video? The next video that's gonna be uploaded here is most likely gonna be an execution video
I enjoy that he leaves the mistakes in. A bunch are intentional as it drives engagement (see this thread as evidence) and makes for the potential for an additional video for mistakes, to drive further engagement... Works like a dream
I noticed that too, and only 5 seconds later, "different sites in the religion"
Sam thought he was making a joke but now I want to make a Philly cheese steak deep dish pizza 😅
Dominos makes it
@@invurret9533 😳
Someone somewhere has probably tried to use a deep dish pizza as the “bread” for a cheesesteak.
Not sure if that put them in the hospital, or just made them run for the toilet…
@@invurret9533 that's disgusting lol
@@freddy04123 What you said you wanted to make one what the heck
China: What kind of transportation is best?
Saudi Arabia: That's a ridiculous question
China: *False, trains*
Saudi Arabia, letting them build a metro: That's debatable...
Also "religious pyramid", the only religious pyramid I know is the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee. It is an Americana obligation to make the pilgrimage.
4:04 thanks for using a stock photo of the U1 line in Vienna
As a Packers fan I will accept your joke as a compliment thank you very much
1:13 is one for the next mistakes video. What the hell is a religious pyramid
Well... a pyramid...
LMAO
Religious pyramid? That would be pretty much every MLM company.
Omg am I a bad alcoholic because I've never made the pilgrammage to Green Bay?
As a Green Bay native I'm proud we finally got the recognition we deserve.
Wendover should collaborate with HAI on transportation. After all they can’t possibly be the same person
Though sam from wendover sounds alot like the guy from half as interesting
@@tomrogue13 yeah ikr but im pretty sure its just a coincidence
Need a logistics of the Hajj Wendover video
As a wisconsinite i can confirm that Green Bay is a damn drunk town. Wisco drinking culture is wild, even in small towns. My 1.1k pop. town had 13 bars, or 1 per 85 people. Each one was packed and on each hour its custom to move bars if you arent in a game or something. So almost each hour i would see a stubling pack of drunks moving down about half a block to the next bar. Fun place
There's literally a town in my province that has 2 bars, a saloon, a tavern, and a pub, and there are only 20 houses in the whole town. I pass through the town every now and then and I wonder exactly how the heck they stay in business.
sounds like the hajj, everyone walking the circle of the bars instead of around a temple.
Can i stay at your house during my required pilgrimage?
@@inventor121 It only takes a few regulars to keep a bar running.
This line about alcoholism is the best joke I've seen today. I've laughed for real. Thx for that
Let me guess: there’s some sort event that only happens seven days a year in this particular city, so they created a train just to increase transport capacity during that specific event
I get that it was specifically designed to serve pilgrims, but is there no demand at all for the route from locals for the remainder of the year even on a drastically-reduced capacity?
You don't have to, especially if you are a local you must have performed Hajj. Also Hajj is an obligation that needs to be done only once, after that you can perform Umrah which does not go to these places. So, these places are especially visited by those who are performing Hajj for the first time.
From what I can see in the Google maps the line basically runs from the place where half the pilgrims stay to another place where The other half of the pilgrims stay but this time within walking distance to the mosque, so it really doesn't take you anywhere if you're not a pilgrim.
The other (unbuilt) lines would have had some domestic demand; not so the "Mecca Metro." Imagine a line that goes from town directly to a stadium outside the city, but it's only ever used for the Superbowl; the rest of the year it's empty. No reason to use the metro otherwise.
@@fawziekefli2273 that's one way to put it for godless heathens. I mean that in the most polite way possible.
I would think that in the other 51 weeks of the year there would be people doing maintenance, cleaning, repairs, and that sort of thing.
As soon as you said “Saudi Arabia” I knew where you were going with this.
Mecca is planning other metro lines that would be a day to day transit system.
Possibly the biggest overcapacity was with South Africa's apartheid era township trains. 5000 riders packed into an 11 car train with maximum safe capacity of 2000. Hanging out doors and riding on couplers. Eased up by the late 1980s when South Africa deregulated transport and began breaking up its big monopolies.
Really? Please come and see the overcrowding nowadays. And there are also hardly any trains left. Complete train stations being stolen. Inclusive of the brick and mortar. Overcrowding during apartheid? Pfft.
@@dirkdutoit6644 new record for crowded trains: coming out of Ukraine with 6000 on board.
in melbourne australia, there’s a train line that only operates once a year for melbourne cup day
Not quite one day a year; it also runs for other major race days at that club, as well as event transportation for events at the Showgrounds; and even when not used for that some off-duty trains will be stabled there overnight or outside of peak hours.
1.5m social distancing seems like it would be a challenge. 🤔
2:25 Oh no, you did NOT just insult Chicago Style Pizza! You obviously do not understand how passionate we Chicagoans are about our food.
I know a classmate whose parents died in a crowd crush in Makkah back in the 1990s. The metro is definitely needed in my opinion.
I was in the hajj 2016 I waited 3 hours to get into the metro so walking became my best optaion its only one day that you have to use it
also 4:16 the price is wrong its 300 riyals 80$ for the whole 7 days
Thanks for clarifying. I was confused on why the price was so high
Great video as always! Buuuut I'm not sure if it's ACTUALLY the highest capacity metro in the world, and it might not even be Tokyo either!
Which single metro line is in fact the highest then?
@@kaldo_kaldo My guess would be somewhere in Moscow
@@kaldo_kaldo Hong Kong?
The Hong Kong MTR East Rail line has a capacity of 92950 people per hour per direction, which is far more than the Mecca Metro.
Prior to the pandemic it operated 12-car trains (capacity 3712) at 25 trains per hour.
@@littleraeofsunshineI don’t think it is Moscow
The two most interesting things I learned from this are :
1. The Hajj happens at a specific time of year and only lasts a week (I always assumed that Muslims could just go whenever).
2. It's illegal for infidels to enter Mecca. I've never particularly wanted to go, but I'm surprised to learn that I can't. It makes sense that you would have to be a Muslim to visit the Kaaba, but I'm surprised you can't even enter the city.
1. Muslims can go whenever, its called Umrah, but Hajj itself is a pillar of Islam, and only takes place in 1 week
2. “Infidels” lmao, there isnt any reason for non-muslims to go there, its a random city in the middle of the desert
As soon as he mentioned mecca I immediately know why it's only open 7 days a year
Hey, Sam, so there's one metro line in Tokyo...
The Type-A metro carriage in this line was imported from China and carries 310 pax per car at 100% capacity, while Japanese E235-0 series carries 1724 pax per train which gives us 156 pax per car. This means this Saudi "standard capacity" was already at 200% capacity in Japanese standards. The Chuō Line rapid service sends about 30 trains each carrying 3000 pax towards Tokyo per hour in the morning rush hours, which gives us 90000/hr(the actual numbers pre-pandemic is about 81000) so JR East still wins... Even if we don't take the peak 289% capacity rate reached in 1965 into consideration.
1:25 correction: the book was revealed to him, Mohammed (PBUH) didn't wrote it.
That's fair, although I guess it depends on your definition of "wrote"
"He wrote it down, but he wasn't the author" is my understanding of the situation.
Granted I'm not Muslim so that interpretation may be incorrect.
@@Sammie1053 he didn’t write it down, he couldn’t write. He had scribes who wrote it down and most people just memorized it.
When the Phillies won the World Series, we had our own hajj (Chicago coming to visit)
Got this in my recommendations 7 days after it was uploaded lol.
Correction : The book is not by Muhammad but it' by Allah himself... Muhammad PBUH is just a messenger
1:18 They travel between different sites in the religion...
Me: Okay- (mistake counter increases)
The logistics of the Haj sounds like a good video for Wendover Productions.
absolutely perfect transition to sponsered segment
1:25 The Quran wasn’t written by Mohammad, in fact he was illiterate, The quran was verbally revealed from God to Mohammad and was memorized by people for years, and was first fully written about 23 years from it was first revealed.
Get lost with that book please
Yeah thats correct
@@jainamshah9497 get lost with your bigotry...be carefuly you might get too far deep
0:18 Shout out to Vienna.
+1
Yes I just saw it too
As some who is from Green Bay I can conform we are the holist city in the region of alcoholism
What kind of transportation is best?
HAI guy: Trains
Wendover guy: Planes
A short video about transportation, decent and well-balanced humor bits, an NO mention of airplanes?
You've changed man...
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
I owe my success to having listened
respectfuly to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
How do we get paid?
Is it through online investment platform?
Yes through online investment platform
i get paid directly to my bank account
Wow, I don't know why, but the fact that you used stock footage from the Vienna metro twice (0:20 and 4:04) in one video makes me very happy. And yes, I'm Viennese
fix oida
4:25 Oh boy, guess I’m Muslim now
LOL at the Greenbay remark. I was not expecting that.
The shade being thrown in here is out of this world! xD
Do a video on the biggest book in the world or the Biggest bell.
0:41 Have you seen how many people can fit in one Mumbai local train?
He talked about metro lines not train lines
The statement about statistics is... 100% accurate!
My family isn't Muslim but there's more than 4 of us and I was the one who was picked to go to Mecca. I even rode this exact train!
How was it?
If you aren't Muslim, how come you visited Mecca?
@@roteschwert (that was the joke)
4:37 Yaay! It's the Széll Kálmán tér station of Budapest Metro Line 2! HAI featured my hometown!!
As soon as you said "Saudi Arabia" I knew exactly where this was going.
0:40 sometimes trains in Tokyo operate at like 200% capacity so it may not actually be the biggest.
For everyone's information, dying at Hajj was always a risk throughout the history, and it is recommended that Muslims pay their debt and write their will.
No joke. My neighbor was a victim during last hajj stampede ini 2015
@@Dfathurr Bro I feel like HAI predicted the future since this video was published the day before a stampede/crush event killing 9 people at a concert...
i sure do hope the comments arent controversial
Budapest metro line 2, Batthyány tér (Batthyány square) station escalators visible at 4:38 :)
Fun to imagine that the equivalent motorway would be 42 + 42 lanes. (assuming about 1700 per lane per hour)
I am very very very curious where you got the stock video of that “pilgrim” holding the passport…
I will wager up to $0.17 that it's stock footage shot by a company that helps organise people's Hajj that ended up public domain.
1:21 Hajj gameplay: stoning 3 pillars with stones
Hajj lore: Satan and it's devils get tied into the pillars and people stone the hell out of them.
1:14 - "A religious *Pyramid*" Lol. I was waiting for a pyramid scheme joke.
Pretty sure it was a mistake and that he meant to say "pilgrimage"
love how 'logistical nightmare' comes up when a dc metro train appears
0:50 "To explain the problem" Shows footage of mecca 😂
Normal transportation is NOT everyones way to get around. I mostly sit in a trance and hope to be teleported to my destination