Another Road Collaspe in China

[SpartanDem]

Scary. Overloaded trucks plus under built bridges is bad combination, a 88 tons on steel hauler on a bridge designed only for 15 tons which is for a low multilane bridge( you read through google translate). Some hold then up as model infrastructure investment they have gone from 7,000 miles freeway a decade ago, to around 46,000 mi a little more that Interstate system(they still have a way meet us when you facor non interstate freeways), but the quailty is very suspect. The truly scary thing is these incidents are happening when the roads are relativly new what happens 20+ years?


http://dyxwsyb.blog.163.com/blog/static/175121234201143184249906/




And the same thing happened in February
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359289/Drivers-escape-alive-motorway-section-collapses-beneath-sending-plunging-23ft-ground.html

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. That road looks pretty rinky-dink. Like that police car.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. yep. n/t

[malaise]

2. Bet some corrupt contractor made a bag of money

using inferior material

[spanone]

5. that will be america when the thugs remove all regulations

cause we know that policing business only kills jobs, right?

[malaise]

7. or Jamaica today

sadly

[formercia]

8. Well, you won't have to worry about the US invading

Armored vehicles won't get more than a couple of miles from the Beach.

[malaise]

9. They didn't have to invade

The IMF provided all the Shock Doctrine required since the threats from the 1970s.

[formercia]

14. Nothing left to steal

Best way to avoid having 'democracy' foisted upon your Country is to have nothing worth stealing.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Seems 10 years or so ago we couldn't get our hands on concrete and or steel cuz China

needed it worse than we did. Our bridge collapses are much more proper. They tend to drop straight down and not katty corner.

[underpants]

4. Over expansion, lack of planning. The Chinese avoid Chinese goods -can't avoid that though

I have heard from several reputable sources that the Chinese-above-poor never buy anything made in China (which they oversee the making of) because they know it is crap. Chinese concrete.... you can't really import concrete.

[matt819]

6. Hold on just a sec

The road may or may not have been poor quality, and corruption may or may not have been involved.

But. . .

The road was rated for 15 tons, and the truck that collapsed it was five times that. That's not necessarily a surprising result.

[pampango]

10. Good catch. n/t

[AndyTiedye]

11. Designed for 15 Tons? What Were They Thinking?

Looks like there were at least 2 semis on there when it fell.
Even if they were not overloaded, that would be way more than 15 tons.

[Mopar151]

12. Don't see ANY steel in those columns

And damm little (if anything) tying the roadbed sections together. Who needs those pesky DOT standards?

[Mopar151]

13. Fake roads to ghost cities..... n/t

[Shagbark Hickory]

16. Probably!

Those trucks were off to some construction site building condos in some deserted town.

[Mopar151]

17. The Daily Mail link shows worse

4 coal trucks in convoy.... at a conservative 35 tons apeice, 2 of them on a section would be 5 times the stated design load.

"There's no cops out today - we'll take the short cut!"