there're lot of these types of bridges in Florida or in the Gulf area(highway over water).
Quote from Sam Mcgee:
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h...sa=1&q=usa+bridge+collapse&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Quote from short&naked:
It takes a bit longer in the USA to build bridges... we actually still have regulations (believe it or not). In china they use sand cement and hope it lasts the next 6 months. I mean how much of the crap coming out of that shithole is actually worth buying?
Quote from newguy05:
Exactly. Everytime someone mentions how china is kicking our ass, you always have the same sheeps who still believe it's the same china 30 years ago, and love to bury their head in the sand and justify our failures by pointing at china and yapping about their regulation/safety/crappy construction yada yada. That might be true for some small private projects still, but for large scale constructions china is far more advanced and efficient than usa is now.
Quote from blackjack007:
and when an earthquake happens in china, how many 10's or 100's of thousands of people die from thousands of collapsed structures? in the US, a major quake might kill 50 people.
it's easy and cheap to build things when you don't care about the environment, worker safety, or longevity. the golden gate bridge was built in a couple of years, but that was back in the 1930s when we didn't care about how many workers died and minor concerns like that. if we went back to those days, we could easily have built your 2 mile tunnel in several months, and cheaply.
Quote from Sam Mcgee:
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h...sa=1&q=usa+bridge+collapse&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Quote from newguy05:
This is how you do infrastructure projects.
Meanwhile in the US, citing budget concerns a much needed new tunnel linking NJ to manhattan was canceled AFTER wasting $700 MILLION already.
Add insult to injury, it took the chinese FOUR years from start to finish to build the 27mile bridge, it took usa FIVE years and $700 million to come up with a fucking PLAN to build a <2 miles tunnel, only to get canceled before construction even starts.
I really want to be hopeful, but we are not just falling behind, we are getting left in the dust like a third world country by china...
Qindao Haiwan Bridge:
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