Why yes, I AM a Chinese road. How could you tell?

It's the same thing mines have you just think its impressive because they shoved it in the middle of nature

>maintenance
lol chinks don't do maintenance. when it falls apart and kills some people they'll just rebuild it exactly as it was.

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Looks fun to drive

>they were too cheap to dig the side of that mountain
they have a path on the side of the mountain

>We only build insanely wide and straight roads here.
It's the same In USA
you both have the same building culture/ style

ITT
>I know better than engineers!!

a dirt road, not a highway designed for high speed. Looks like they cut some of the mountain out but it'd be more effiicient to just do this on the mountainside and the level it out once the elevation difference between the saddle and the bottom are made up in the switchbacks.

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Yes you retarded.

fuck that's cool

> not a highway designed for high speed.
I suppose they should do that on top of the dirt road

i'm a civil engineer, the reason they built the roads over each other instead of building into the mountain is because it's cheaper up front. Building a road that's made to last in this situation involves blasting the mountain side away with explosives and then hauling away all of the rock which is very time consuming therefore expensive. Those highrises are expensive to maintain in the long run though and they're more expensive to repave because the concrete doesn't sit on a natural foundation as if it were on the ground.

>horizontal skyscraper

Why westoids didn't think about that before?

it must be a pretty steep grade, big trucks have a hard time with long steep roads and brake failure which is why most highways on steep inclines don't just go straight up against the hillside like that.

mountain roads are the best, I love to ride my ducati on them

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Just insectoid being insect

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why do you build your roads straight up the mountain sides instead of going through the lowlands?

>American civil engineering
Fucking lmao.

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The problem isn't our designs it's the huge lack of funding and the fact that people are dependent on cars.

>ducati
t. zio paperone

>The problem isn't our designs

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damn you sure got me with that cherrypick.

China Uncensored or those ADV China guys?

stupid fucking Spaniard, there are multiple problems with that shitastic road design, worst being, ding ding ding, the rain and floods

it's a big cunt

many of these roads were built during WW1, italy and austria mostly fought on mountains and having the higher ground was strategically important

Do you really think it's appropriate for a $20 million pedestrian overpass to collapse within 5 days of its completion? How does that even happen?

no, obviously corners were cut to make the budget work.

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interesting.

In other words, shit engineering from a country with third world tier infrastructure.

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pedestrian overpass isnt the same as that chinese nonsense

>How does that even happen?
you give the project to a private company, they ask double what they need because it a government contract anyway, they make a shit job of it, and then nobody checks what they did because that's just how responsible the local institutions are; probably also because to have a project like that properly checked will cost even more money, which they already gave away, because probably the construction company that built it promised them a nice sponsorship in their next election or some shit

we have a massive road network designed for large volumes of traffic, that's what most of our infrastructure budget goes to.

Australian projects aren't handled by contractors? None of them have ever fucked up?

>they ask double what they need because it a government contract anyway, they make a shit job of it, and then nobody checks what they did because that's just how responsible the local institutions are

As an infrastructure engineer I can tell you it's the opposite. To appease the taxpayers the government lies about the true costs even when told point blank. They still wont pay design what they need or give a realistic design window so design is under stress and management shoves a product out the door the design group isnt happy with just to appease the local government. Then design has to babysit contractors who cut corners but ask for money for everything else via change orders. If the contractor fucks up he can play dumb and blame design for not spoon feeding him what he should no. Engineers get paid less and less and contractors more and more when the contractor is the one really fucking the government. The government also stalls on payment and processing things which leads to delays.
I'll point out local politicians spread lies about projects to fire up their base. We worked on a drinking water treatment plant where the local politicians sold it as a sewage treatment plant that would small and the electric motors would make there kids retarded, neither was true. The land by the way was completely owned by the water department and the plant was going to be built below the surface of the reservoir. The locals were also people who'd change their oil by draining it into a storm drain.

Switchbacks fucking suck for trucks though. I'm guessing curve radius was a concern here. Maybe it's a major regional road.

Have you considered that sometimes there are no lowlands to go through, and that you have to cross a mountain range to get somewhere?

>We worked on a drinking water treatment plant where the local politicians sold it as a sewage treatment plant that would small and the electric motors would make there kids retarded, neither was true. The land by the way was completely owned by the water department and the plant was going to be built below the surface of the reservoir. The locals were also people who'd change their oil by draining it into a storm drain.
If stupidity had a smell ...

we don't have villages nestled deep into the mountains because it was all under protection laws before we could settle them. It just seems like a huge waste of money for access to tiny villages

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>we don't have villages nestled deep into the mountains because it was all under protection laws before we could settle them. It just seems like a huge waste of money for access to tiny villages
what law was this, sounds like a good idea, living inbetween the mountaisn is a logistical nightmare

europoor COPE

all of our steep mountain ranges in the west are protected by law, it's illegal to own private property on them.

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It's propably build like this to flatten the road so it doesn't go to hard up the mountain which will make cars not being able to get up.

>Do you really think it's appropriate for a $20 million pedestrian overpass to collapse within 5 days of its completion? How does that even happen?
when the bridge requires $40 million in funding but only gets half, because politics
it makes a lot of sense then

Big curves help long vehicles go up and down the mountain you dumb mutt

If they built a road for logistics in that kind of terrain it’s probably part of the B(ased) and R(edpilled) initiative

>We worked on a drinking water treatment plant where the local politicians sold it as a sewage treatment plant that would small and the electric motors would make there kids retarded, neither was true.
hearty kek

but yea doesn't sound too far from how things work here either
I find it amazing that somehow the current economy favors shitty contract work, with a few exceptions they are the worst in just about any field

>If stupidity had a smell ...
Jow Forums would reek?