CN Bridge partially collapses in southwest China, months after opening - Quality Chinese Engineering

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BEIJING, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Part of a recently opened bridge collapsed in China's southwestern province of Sichuan along a national highway linking the country's heartland with Tibet on Tuesday, local authorities said, but there were no reports of casualties.

Police in the city of Maerkang had closed the 758-metre-long Hongqi bridge to all traffic on Monday afternoon, after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads, and shifts were seen in the terrain of a mountain, the local government said.

On Tuesday afternoon conditions on the mountainside worsened, triggering landslides, leading to the collapse of the approach bridge and roadbed, it added.

Construction of the bridge finished earlier this year, according to a video posted by the contractor Sichuan Road & Bridge Group on social media.

(This story has been corrected to say that worsening conditions and landslides led to the partial bridge collapse, not that the bridge collapse triggered landslides, in paragraph 3

Reporting by Xiuhao Chen, Yukun Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Andrew Heavens

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quaawaa said:
Police in the city of Maerkang had closed the 758-metre-long Hongqi bridge to all traffic on Monday afternoon, after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads, and shifts were seen in the terrain of a mountain, the local government said.
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the most suprising thing about this story tbqh
 
Pretty much mandatory Chinesium joke aside, that's some damn good collapse footage. I'm surprised the Farms doesn't have a dedicated thread for natural disasters, structural collapses, etc.

User names must be unique said:
the most suprising thing about this story tbqh
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Reading it, it sounds like they didn't reinforce the points it connected to, rather than the bridge itself for once. Guess that bit's unusual for Chinese Quality™ construction.
 
This isn't possible. Twitter told me how much China is advanced than everyone else because of their pictures of buildings with neon lights.
 
Looks like the grade of the sideslope was way too high for the mountain to hold itself up
 
Not surprised, it's pretty common for this kind of thing to happen in China. Glad there were no casualties.
Punished Benis said:
Pretty much mandatory Chinesium joke aside, that's some damn good collapse footage. I'm surprised the Farms doesn't have a dedicated thread for natural disasters, structural collapses, etc.
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That dust cloud was absolutely beautiful. And I agree, we really should have a thread on natural disasters/structural collapses. It'd be great to have footage like that all in one place.
 
Punished Benis said:
mandatory Chinesium joke aside
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Tasty Tatty said:
Twitter told me how much China is advanced than everyone else because of their pictures of buildings with neon lights
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I also used to be of the "it's all Chinesium junk" view. The problem is, that's not incompatible with "they can build gigantic state of the art things", being a country of 1.4 billion.

When life is valued that little, or their system ensures built-in incompetence, you're going to have bridges, dams, and planes fall down at, say 10x the rate we'd find acceptable. But because they can bulldoze a gorillion regulations and pressure groups, they can build 10-20x as many, watch 3-5% of them fail, and end up with hundreds of nuke plants or trains or whatever that do work.
 
JohnnyG said:
watch 3-5% of them fail, and end up with hundreds of nuke plants or trains or whatever that do work.
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What about those 3-5% of nuke plants that don't work?
 
quaawaa said:
Police in the city of Maerkang had closed the 758-metre-long Hongqi bridge to all traffic on Monday afternoon, after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads, and shifts were seen in the terrain of a mountain, the local government said.
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User names must be unique said:
the most suprising thing about this story tbqh
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That makes the Sampoong Department Store collapse in South Korea way worse, since the owner kept the store open until the VERY DAY IT COLLAPSED, even though cracks were showing that the building would collapse, because HE DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE A DAY'S WORTH OF INCOME, and yet he and the other executives evacuated the building without issuing an evacuation order beforehand.
 
CAPTAIN HAPPY said:
What about those 3-5% of nuke plants that don't work?
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Well it might suck for the project manager in charge, the local mayor, and the villages that were going to benefit from them, but luckily there are another 10,000-100,000 of each.

It's like Russian or Vietnamese war losses...you can brag about taking out 5-10x as many of theirs as they take out of yours, but if they can and will throw 50x as many at the problem...
 
I'm assuming "Ho, ho, chow ma dillo" is chink for "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams."
 
Übertroon said:
Better to have a couple of Fukushimas than no nuclear power at all, just ask your electricity bill
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Knowing this is China, it's more of a couple of Chernobyls, and they'll do their damnest to cover those incidents up, while people die from radiation sickness left and right.
 
JohnnyG said:
Well it might suck for the project manager in charge, the local mayor, and the villages that were going to benefit from them, but luckily there are another 10,000-100,000 of each.

It's like Russian or Vietnamese war losses...you can brag about taking out 5-10x as many of theirs as they take out of yours, but if they can and will throw 50x as many at the problem...
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Field of corpses aint the same as an irradiated field of atomic waste.
 
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