Planned to be three times as large as CERN’s seventeen-mile collider ring in Europe, the Texas super collider was a planned 52-mile collider ring with tunnels measuring 14 feet in diameter and had a $6 billion price tag. These “ghost stories” provide a glimpse of just how different our nation’s built environment could have been if they had seen completion.īuried beneath the ground in the Ellis County town of Waxahachie, Texas, lays the flooded remains of what was supposed to be the world’s largest particle super collider.
Waxahachie supercollider series#
This is the fourth post in a series about projects that share the same fate of abandonment and the bitter forgetfulness of the passing of time. More often than imagined, major projects are started and never finished they are left to be forgotten, holding secrets of the past and sharing insights into what could have been.
While we only see the projects that reach completion, it is important to note that many designs and plans have come and gone before them. Much thought and planning go into the design of our cities and environments.
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