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This says less about cars and more about shoddy work and government grift.
Rails would not fuck up this fast.
Gimme €5.5b and I will build you some super fucked up rails.
Yeah but that would still be interesting fucked up, not boring fucked up.
Half ass stabilizing slope. One track sinks lower than the other. Track is now uneven, and no trains can run on it. Now pay $1b to level and stabilize slope
Add more mass under rails still easier than car paths.
And that is kinda interesting.
Or sinkholes are common in the area
Then they shouldn't be using materials that succumb to potholes this quickly.
We have potholes in Ohio. Mostly caused by salt on the roads, and lack of maintence over the years.
This road opened on June 5th. Should be no salt. And there hasn't been years of deterioration.
If this pavement material is this weak, then it has no right being used here.
If they didn't use sub-standard materials, there wouldn't be big repair contracts, would there? Guess who will land them.
This is par for the course in India. They siphon off taxes this way, and on environmentally-inadvisable things no less. But that is how it is structured, weak-to-non-existent urban local bodies, and tax collection and disbursement centralized like it was in the times of the colonizer. That big pot of money is intensively fought over.
You should probably look up what a sinkhole is
Road builder here. Nope, unless you are being very creative with the term 'sinkhole'.
First clue - a sinkhole propagates from UNDER the road, whereas the photos simply show crap asphalt which has been essentially 'plucked' out. This suggests either a crappy binder, or it was placed in the rain, or a number of other quality issues.
I mean, if these are caused by sinkholes, then that should have been addressed during construction. Roads can be very thick and are made of lots of different layers, each of which should be compacted very regularly and thoroughly during construction. If sink holes are common in the area, then they should have designed countermeasures to minimize their impact. My understanding of sinkholes, is that they typically form due to water phase erosion, which again, should have been known and at least partially accounted for. But, hey, I’m not a civil engineer, so I could wrong, but those definitely seem more likely to be potholes as opposed to sinkholes.
You ever been to a tropical island? They do not salt their roads, but still have lots of pot holes.
Graft could certainly be a factor, but I wouldn't rule out trucks or buses carrying severely over-weight loads contributing to the damage.
After THREE WEEKS???
Trucks carrying overweight loads can be an issue over long periods of time like years. Not weeks.
Yeah, on a normal road it would take years of wear and tear, but on a shoddily constructed roadway, three weeks could be all it takes.
I'd guess grift. The pic shows gravel beneath the asphalt in those potholes. For any major road, you should be having more asphalt than that. Ontario major series highways have large amounts - 200-350mm is standard, 400 I've seen in areas with constraints. From the pic, I'd guess youre at 1-2 lifts, so maybe 100mm, at most? Given the speed of deterioration, likely only 1 60mm lift.
That's why you don't hire PennDOT to make your roads, Chandrapuram.
I was waiting till fuck cars centered around india. Urbanism or Car centricisim requires infrastructure. But here in India, we got european level tax and sub saharan infrastructure. We got infrastructure to support neither.
This is what excessive corruption looks like in practice lol
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