World's Longest Bridge Center of Safety Fears [China]

CRI English ^ | 2011-07-05 07:47:16 | Web Editor: Zhangxu

[Red Badger]

Cheap CHINESE JUNK...................

[ken5050]

They just finished building the pieces of the Bay bridge for Oakland...good luck with that..

[MaryFromMichigan]

And coming soon to a bridge in the U.S.- Bridge Comes to San Francisco With a Made-in-China Label

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Pinging a few of you who questioned this bridge’s quality in my post announcing the bridge opening.

[Past Your Eyes]

Fortunately, I have no plans to go to either Oakland or Quingdao.

[swain_forkbeard]

How about Mandeville?

[Bringbackthedraft]

Not to worry, it comes with a one year warranty. That means a new bridge every 90 days.

[Pollster1]

The man believed to be charge of the work said safety would not be affected by the loose bolts or the absence of barriers . . .

They should have left those safety barriers out of the design if the barriers don't contribute to safety.

[Red Badger]

Would you buy a bridge from this man?...............

[F.J. Mitchell]

They can spent that extra 20 minutes thanking God that the bridge didn’t fall down during their commute.

[lacrew]

I was involved in a construction project for a steel framed building (6 stories). The bolts which connect the beams are tightened with a very large impact wrench....and the torque can be set to the engineer's specs.

A large number of the bolts were shearing in two...so many that the contractor had to disassemble the building and start over with better bolts.

The culprit: Although they were allegedly American made, the bolts were traced to China.

Any large engineering project in China scares me to death.

[lacrew]

“some barriers and bolts had been removed by workers to adjust wiring, which was normal practice after a bridge opened to traffic”

I wonder how they ‘adjust’ wiring. Maybe they had to add wiring that they forgot?...not knowing alot about bridges, it doesn’t seem that ‘normal’ to me.

[Red Badger]

Just wait til they start selling cars here..............

[Haiku Guy]

I was hanging a TV, so I bought some fairly substantial wood screws down at the Home Depot (3”, #12). While installing the screws using a conventional hand screwdriver and my puny forearms, I snapped four screws off in a row.

I am not The Incredible Hulk by any means, but I could not get one of these screws fully into the wood, time after time.

I couldn’t figure it out until I took a closer look at the packaging. Made in China. ‘Nuff said...

BTW, if you go to Google Earth or Google Maps hoping to see a picture or map of this bridge, fuggedaboutit. I guess the Chinese are not ready to let Google share this information with the World, just yet.

[lacrew]

“Just wait til they start selling cars here..............”

I have long predicted that one day we will be able to buy a Chinese car from Sam’s Club...they will be stacked in open sided wood boxes, with shrink wrap on them....with a bar code to scan.

Others have cautioned me that the Chinese will instead enter into the luxury car market. You may recall that the original Hondas in this country were considered ‘cheap’; and, they took a while to become popular. So, to counter the ‘cheap’ reputation, many expect the Chinese to enter the US car market with higher end vehicles....which will likely just be copies. I am surprised they haven’t done it yet.

[Red Badger]

There were rumors and rumblings a couple years ago that they would have ‘maxed out’ luxury cars for the American market for 10-15k..................

[EQAndyBuzz]

Will the cars run on coal?

[griswold3]

Whenever anyone, ANYONE tries to tell you that China will surpass the USA as an economic superpower, just laugh! It’ll never happen until the people are the economy instead of the government.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Like a Bridge over troubled waters.....!"