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dogsent t1_iugpysm wrote

Bridge collapsed in India a few days after opening. Oops! At least 130 dead. Fingers pointing all around. Did the engineers have a maximum capacity? Was that ignored?

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Shiplord13 t1_iugqyri wrote

Could be a capacity issue, could be laxed construction standards, or could even be corruption where supplies used for it were not bought and money was pocketed. The point is someone will have to answer for this and it was in no way just some random accident and was clearly negligence or possibly willful disregard for safety at the very least.

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[deleted] t1_iuhduce wrote

All of the above most likely. It’s 140 year old bridge so even with qualified maintenance which it doesn’t look like they had I don’t think the people should be out there doing that and there should be a weight allowance respected and enforced.

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tekina7 t1_iuh257q wrote

Just for clarification, was a ~100 year old bridge that was recently re-opened after repairs.

To me, stinks of corruption, where government officials and MPs/MLAs would pocket up to ~50% of the tender amount in various bribes, leaving only the rest for the actual construction and margin for the construction company.

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slipnips t1_iuh43j6 wrote

While this corruption almost certainly did happen, it's also likely that the bridge was way overloaded due to poor crowd management

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[deleted] t1_iuhdqz5 wrote

In service for about 140 years and it had been closed for 7 months for repairs. it has been reopened for 4 days before it failed. They hired a clock company or something to do the repairs and even in the best scenario of xompetent repair I'm not sure the people should have been out there pushing the Bridge to it's limit. It's just an old bridge they've repair several times over the year, including major damage in a 2001 earthquake.

Most of this data is available in the article you didn't read, But I also looked up a few more details because you know Google is easy if you use it.

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stickylava t1_iuh4uca wrote

Apparently they put a clock company in charge of that.

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screwracism147 t1_iugy72a wrote

Over a hundred people died. Regardless of your thoughts on the government, could we not be callous?

Also, no country, superpower or not, is immune to disasters like these

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