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The A-35 (a highway in Quebec) has been under construction since 1966. When finished, it will be 34 miles/55 km long. Two decades isn't very long for an infras
by saltminer 3y ago
The A-35 (a highway in Quebec) has been under construction since 1966. When finished, it will be 34 miles/55 km long.
Two decades isn't very long for an infrastructure project, which is unfortunate since long-term planning benefits greatly from political stability, and many areas are seeing large shifts for the worse in that regard.
- adastra22 3y agoTwo decades ought be a very long time for an infrastructure project. I guarantee you China and India aren't taking 47 years to build a 55 km highway.
- dmd 3y agoI would be stunned if it took 47 days.
- doubleg72 3y agoBut only lasts half that..
- dmd 3y ago??? I think you’re thinking of US roads, which are generally shoddily constructed and poorly maintained compared to chinese ones. No, what you meant to say was “and only 47 people died constructing it!”
- bonestamp2 3y agoChina has had more than 150 modern bridges collapse. Some of them collapsed in less than a year. China is not building or maintaining bridges any better than the US. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268466718_Statistical_Analysis_of_the_Causes_of_Bridge_Collapse_in_China https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268466718_Statistic... https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-19365886 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-19365886
- adastra22 3y agoMontreal roads are famously bad.
- jeromegv 3y agoIt’s an extremely poor example. It’s a multi phase project and for many years government didn’t provide any funding as it was not a priority. It’s not like they were actively trying to build it for 47 years, they built multiple small parts of it through multiple phases but they were never trying to build the whole thing. It was just not anything important to complete.
- adastra22 3y agoThe criticism still stands. It should not take 47 years from recognition that a road is needed to actually building it.
- KMag 3y agoWhat if sections will be needed now, and it's easy enough to make a plan to eventually connect all of the parts as needed? Get the zoning work done to prevent anything over 2 stories tall being built over the planned route, and then build the various sections as needed/as budget is available. I'm not saying that's what happened, but I can see smart, modular, as-needed infrastructure projects being drawn out over decades like this.
- phatfish 3y agoThe irony of software engineers complaining about a project not being feature complete and on time.
- adastra22 3y agoWhen a project that should take 5 months takes 500 months, this isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
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- m4rtink 3y agoThe Brno main post office building here in the Czech Republic has been built as a modular structure that can be moved and reassembled once the new main railway station is completed. That was in 1937 - the new main railway station does not exist yet (though it looks like it might actually be built this time) and post even moved out of the historic building last year. :P