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Newly Constructed Bridge Features A Nearly 90-Degree Turn
Photos of a road bridge built over railroad tracks, featuring a nearly 90-degree turn have been spreading on social media. People can’t believe such an idiotic and obviously dangerous design was not only approved but constructed with nobody stopping the foolish project.
A backyard go-kart track case has landed in court.
The all-too-real bridge in question is located in Bhopal, Mayda Pradesh, India where government officials have suspended seven of the eight civil engineers involved in the bridge project. The eighth is a now-retired superintendent engineer, but he’s now facing a departmental inquiry, reports New Civil Engineer.
In addition, the government of Mayda Pradesh has blacklisted the M/s Puneet Chaddah architecture firm and M/s Dynamic Consultant design firm involved with the disastrous project.
Apparently, the odd design was somehow borne out of the fact the bridge had to be constructed under challenging constraints with the surrounding land and a rail station situated nearby. That’s being blamed for the sharp angle in the bridge instead of a more gradual and traditional curve.
Even more unbelievable, the bridge has been planned since at least 2018 and the design was fundamentally changed three times. Reportedly, the first design incorporated a 45-degree turn. That and the second design were scrapped thanks to changes in the rail station, which was also in planning and then under construction.
We’re guessing the pressure was on to get the bridge designed and finally built, so in 2023 the third and final draft was approved.
This might be one of the most perfect examples of groupthink among otherwise intelligent individuals. Any of the engineers involved in the bridge project could have easily stepped back and objectively concluded the nearly 90-degree turn was a bad design. But none did.
Now the government is trying to figure out how to fix the constructed bridge, which undoubtedly will cost far more than if that little detail had been rectified back when everything was just on paper.
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