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Title: Those Chinese motorways again !
Post by: albitz on 21 February 2011, 23:22:28

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359289/Drivers-escape-alive-motorway-section-collapses-beneath-sending-plunging-23ft-ground.html

Title: Re: Those Chinese motorways again !
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 21 February 2011, 23:31:32

 :o :o :o :o :o :o

I blame the lorry drivers as it is obvious the lorries were too heavy for the fly-overs! ::) ::) :P :P ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Chinese concrete at its best no doubt! ;)

Title: Re: Those Chinese motorways again !
Post by: scimmy_man on 22 February 2011, 09:48:22

No reinforcement?

Title: Re: Those Chinese motorways again !
Post by: aaronjb on 22 February 2011, 09:51:30

So that's what communism gets you...


...dodgy concrete!  ;D


'course there could always have been a nearby earthquake or aftershock - though the USGS doesn't report any yesterday (I'm not sure, though, whether they actually have any tracking in mainland China,) that region is right on the east coast which is quite close to a fault line that terminates roughly in Taiwan.

Title: Re: Those Chinese motorways again !
Post by: aaronjb on 22 February 2011, 09:53:36

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No reinforcement?

You can see the steel in the roadway in the shattered bit.. but it looks very much like 'something' shifted and pulled the pylons out from under the roadway making it fall as two complete sections - I don't see anything tying the pylons into their foundations, though.. then again maybe that's normal?

Title: Re: Those Chinese motorways again !
Post by: Varche on 22 February 2011, 10:10:46

Expansion joint?

But gosh :'(

Title: Re: Those Chinese motorways again !
Post by: albitz on 22 February 2011, 10:16:45

If there was no reinforcement the concrete would shatter into many pieces the first time something heavy drove onto it. ;)