New bridge in China collapses after a landslide

[WhatInThe]

A new bridge open only a few months in China has a partial collapse after a landslide.

Crazy footage shows China’s Hongqi bridge collapsing months after opening

 

[hawkdon]

OOOopppppppsssssss!

 

[RambleTamble]

Here's another video of it with an partial explanation of what happened...
"The cracks in the slope were caused by water storage at a nearby reservoir."

 

[Oldeagle66]

This could be the Tofu-dreg I've been reading about and watching on youtube. Things built so poorly they just fall apart.

 

[horseless carriage]

There was a program on television recently called Engineering Disasters, one such disaster was a bridge on the I-35W Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that collapsed in 2007. The catastrophic failure resulted in the deaths of 13 people and injured 145 others.

 

[Murrmurr]

The CCP prefers their builds get a win for looking impressive than for being sound.
Clearly, they don't understand it's possible to achieve both.

This could be the Tofu-dreg I've been reading about and watching on youtube. Things built so poorly they just fall apart.

What's really going on is; the Chinese gov't gives a construction company, let's say, a trillion ¥ to build a bridge. By the time four layers of city officials, CEOs of the construction company, and key members of the local police force pocket their cut, there's like 12¥ left to build that bridge.

The workers will use trash to build it. They will literally go to the local dump to collect cans, bottles, chunks of wood...whatever they can stuff into the mortar, between walls, in the foundation, etc. to get the thing built. And with a lifetime of experience, they are very skilled at making it appear solid.

 

[Tish]

Yikes!

 

[OneEyedDiva]

That's just crazy! It's a good thing, in fact amazing, that there were no casualties.