New sidewalks crumble in Beijing ahead of Olympics

FTV’s latest report about Beijing making final preparations for the Olympics was filmed at a spot in front of the Bird’s Nest stadium where a newly built sidewalk has begun to cave in:

According to the reporter, such crumbling sidewalks are not an uncommon sight near the Olympic venues.

5 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 4, 2008 at 12:40 pm

Categories: Japanese TV Tags: Beijing, china, olympics

James

uh oh…
It starts with crumbling sidewalks…
it ends with all the stadiums collapsing….
parcivale

I’ve seen this type of shoddy construction and engineering throughout most of East Asia. The exceptions being Japan (one example of one of the reasons I’m comfortable living here) and Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, places in which their engineers were trained by the people who were trained by British Army engineers not to cut corners and to do a job right the first time.

Just look at the roads and sidewalks in Bangkok or Jakarta once you get 500 metres from the airport or big international hotels and you’ll see the same results of a half-assed slapped-together mess as this photo shows.

I’m sure the mega-projects are safe enough; they’re high-profile enough and expensive enough that sub-contractors brought their A-game and those projects were overseen by construction firms with international reputations to protect.
Eddie

Oh well. At least it’s only collapsing pavement, and not collapsing bridges like in America.

Reality Check

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/19/asia/AS-GEN-China-Bridge-Collapse.php

Eddie

You win.

New sidewalks crumble in Beijing ahead of Olympics

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