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CommercialFly185 t1_iueautn wrote
Reply to comment by MitsyEyedMourning in At least 40 people killed in bridge collapse in India | News by LayfonGrendan
>The 230-metre historical bridge was built during British rule in the 19th century. It had been closed for renovation for six months and was reopened for the public last week.
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>Not inspected properly though.
Corruption?
Cheaper to bribe an official to pass a safety check on a bridge than to actually make it safe.
There's a nice video about corruption in the Russian army prior to the Ukraine war and why it's so corrosive (basically a small amount lost to corruption causes much more damage downstream, not having fuel in your tanks for your invasion of Kyiv costs millions of times more more than the fuel cost itself)
closetbimbosissy t1_iuebii0 wrote
Can’t blame the builders. Maybe they got their side commission but can’t say they did a shoddy job bcoz this is a old bridge with a reported capacity of 100. But around 500 were reportedly on that bridge overcrowding it.
The problem is with the administration that allowed such overcrowding and the people who thought it wouldn’t collapse…
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