Chinese Bridges Menaced by “Magnitude 0” Quakes
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 16, 2012 09:22 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Buildings, Cars, China, Crime, Harbin, Made in China
The propensity of Chinese bridges to spontaneously collapse when subjected to weather, usage, construction, or what some wags have classified as “magnitude 0” earthquakes, is currently creating much controversy in China – and with even official statistics claiming a Chinese bridge falls down on average at least every 2 months, it is not hard to see why.
In some cases, such as this 1983 bridge in Shaanxi which is currently outraging Chinese online, the authorities have apparently decided to give up on fixing things and just leave the locals to it.
The bridge first collapsed in 2008 and again in 2010, but the government merely told locals not to use it whilst ignoring their repair entreaties.
Another major scandal erupted in August when a $300 million elevated highway in Harbin collapsed, overturning a number of trucks and killing 3 people and injuring a further 5. It only opened at the end of 2011.
According to official statistics, over the past 5 years 37 elevated bridges have collapsed in China, 13 of which did not even survive completion, in total killing 182 and injuring 177.
Bridges are calculated to be collapsing at a rate of at least 1 every 2 months – possibly making air travel a safer option than bridges.
A lack of safety inspections and construction quality which has seen such durable materials as polystyrene and rubbish employed in major infrastructure are amongst the factors blamed for the accidents, which show little sign of abating despite increasing criticism.
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China, whatever anyone tells you, keep making bridges out of styrofoam, you know it works!
If by works you mean "Will fall apart in less than a year"... yeah, it 'works'.
Must be their solution to population control.
Don't listen, styrofoam! You can be a bridge if you believe! You can be China and bridge, best friends forever, not listening to anyone who doesn't believe!
No, actually this is their version of a job program. They build it once, then when it falls apart, they tell the locals to repair it. Hence creating new local "jobs".
They should build bridges out of explosive fecal byproduct just as they do everything else
@ 11:34: Unpaid jobs you mean...
When it falls. It floats. Genius!
Disposable bridges... China, you're a genious!
hey, if china wants to spend 3 million dollars on styrofoam bridges, who are we to talk them out of it.
We are the ones who are sickened when innocent Chinese people get hurt because of this.
while they are at it, why not build skyscrapers out of styrofoam too? If it works on bridges, maybe it could work on skyscrapers too.
The advantage of using Styrofoam for skyscrapers is that because it so light, the foundation doesn't have to be as deep as it does for concrete.
Next chinese copypasta anime:
Beijing magnitude 0.0
Of course it works!! I made styrofoam bridges in high school! They could almost hold a bucket of sand!
China will one day perfect the polystyrene bridge, then who'll be laughing!? xD
The wind will laugh, because it doesn't give a fuck.
lolololololololol china fail
As will fire & direct sunlight.
Melting China, ha
Not only polystyrene, but garbage as seen in pic 12, actually even movie sets B should be more stronger than that!
If things get worse will begin using bodies, again like the wall of china! (Well. .. there worked very fine . :P)
It is clear why the china want to take other people's land, their natural resources are increasingly scarce.
You joking? They have just as much, if not MORE natural resources than America and the U.K.
No, the problem is that heads don't roll LITERALLY when something like this comes to light.
How are the Chinese not extinct yet? It's crazy. The amount of things exploding and contaminated food they eat should have killed them off YEARS ago.
Agreed. Either the Chinese are the human form of cockroaches or something else is going on here.
China quality at its finest XD!
Pic7 is Styrofoam...
Styrofoam is not the name; it's a brand.
But polystyrene is flammable so contact with something that can ignite say chemicals from garbage then .... facepalm never mind I know where this is going and its more on the sad/tragic side than funny.
I guess this comment blew up in your face, huh?
Stop making inflamatory remarks about China, please. Such incendiary remarks will not be tolerated.
@13:42
Me too
I like loliz in bags
Obviously this is a genius plan that mere mortals do not understand.
Of course it's an experiment designed to pit faith against reason.
sern must be behind this
All according to keikaku.
Whatever you do don't throw a lit cigarette out the window when traveling across a bridge in China. The Styrofoam may catch fire and melt the bridge!
I like how there is different qualities of rubbish used for chinese construction-- standard grade neighborhood garbage, and big spender styrofoam.
and this is the country western see as their most dangerous competitor,great this tells us how fucked we are here in the west
anyway news like this always put a smile on my face so i can't really complain
how much is the budget for that bridge?
I wonder, why they must cover Styrofoam with cement?
are those styrofoams suppose to be something else..?
they take literary of "made in china" to the next level..
So this is how they keep up that need for construction for GDP. Everything keeps collapsing, they then need to rebuild it and can claim it's an "increase in domestic infrastructure which is boosting GDP numbers". It's genius, really.
But magnitude 0 is..... the weakest... form of quake......
it means nothing happened or a fly just land there
What's with all the China posts?
Is China the new Japan?
"possibly making air travel a safer option than bridges."
...You know it's Final Destination all over again when you step into a plane maintained by even one Chinese crew.
I'd like to suspect that the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis was built in China and transported over, but that bridge lasted almost 40 years before it collapsed. So probably not.
And I thought China controlled something like 105% of the world's steel industry. You'd think they'd have better materials around...
This isn't about whether they have materials.
It's all about corruption.
Once again, this is why you MUST hold construction firms liable for damages, due to faulty designs & use of improper build materials.
From a legal standpoint, China is the wild west of the modern world. And no one over there is doing a damn thing to change that.
How do you hold construction firms liable if they disappear without a trace right after they're done?
Corruption in China right now is absolutely ridiculous. They 'construction firms' pay off the government official so they approve of their dodge designs and forego any site inspections.
Then they build the bridges with 0 cost materials like rubbish and rake in a massive profit. After they're done, they're gone for good and never to be found again.
Recycling is good, but this is not the right way!