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What if they are crap, but just by a metric that isn't "falls apart immediately"? I watched my state government build an overpass that wasn't needed and didn't
by coredog64 10y ago
What if they are crap, but just by a metric that isn't "falls apart immediately"?
I watched my state government build an overpass that wasn't needed and didn't even have an _exit_ for 3 years. It required multiple road closures and for several months made traffic awful and my drive unsafe. I call that "crap".
- jacquesm 10y agoI'm sure that there are organizations that will mess up if you give them enough rope. But that says nothing about the overpass itself and 'doesn't fall apart immediately' is not a standard that any civil engineer will want to be associated with, at least, not in the developed world and likely not in the third world either (but there due to resource constraints and corruption there may be a difference between what should have been done and what was actually done).
- pjc50 10y agoRather like software, it's possible for the client to decide to build the wrong thing for entirely stupid reasons.