A recently opened 758-metre-long bridge in China’s southwestern Sichuan province collapsed on Tuesday, with no casualties reported.
The Hongqi bridge, located on a national highway linking the country’s heartland with Tibet, had only been completed earlier this year.
Safety concerns prompted the closure, as conditions on the mountainside worsened significantly by Tuesday afternoon.
Landslides triggered by the deteriorating conditions ultimately led to the collapse of the approach bridge and its roadbed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZU6TU8nIQ8
Way easier to just watch a YT video than deal with their godawful website
Of course there are people using their xenophobia (in the comments) to laugh at this, when a fucking landslide caused this. AFAIK , landslides weren’t understood to be an issue in the area.
Presumably a massive construction near by could have contributed to destabilisation?
Naaaaaah. FAKE NEWS. Communist soil stands together against the tyrannies of giant concrete pilings.
I mean presumably in the course of such a large project this was done.
Presumably, it would be better to wait for more detail before wildly speculating that this was incompetence.
I live in Florida, flattest state in the Union. We still have to have professional soil reports to build anything. The is 100% a construction failure.
They should have detected the likelihood of landslides, maybe dynamited the mountain to mitigate.
They suspect water seepage from a nearby reservoir is the culprit…
And deep soil sampling should have caught that. I’m sure there are many methods I’m ignorant of that could have foreseen this.
Even America’s crumbling infrastructure doesn’t see monstrous failures like this. China: Is it Wednesday again?
Thanks! It looks like the hillside was unstable and the source. Something the geological survey should’ve caught, I’d think. Though I am no bridgeologist.
Good footage. AI slop commentary.
At first I thought you were referring to the comments. But no, the voiceover itself is slop. Mildest of surprises.
The unseen hero.
Junimos ain’t fixin’ that one, brother…
Don’t worry I already paid Robin!
I remember hearing something about how awesome his infrastructure was………
I guess they couldn’t cover up a bridge falling.
The infastructure to the bridge was pretty solid; the mountain it was built on, however, not so much.
Shitty engineers.
with no casualties reported
Of course none were reported. This is China.
The bridge has been closed for a while, of course there were no casualties…
The name of the bridge is pretty funny
