'Spanish firm built our bridge upside down'

The Local (Spain) ^ | 08 Jan 2014 17:05 GMT+01:00

[BenLurkin]

become an instant landmark

It did.

[Howie66]

No wonder our Congress is so enamored with Spanish speakers. They would fit right in!

[csvset]

Meanwhile the Italians and Spanish are working on the Panama Canal. What could go wrong?

[NonValueAdded]

Note there is no picture of the actual fail.

[Viennacon]

Dreamers!

[Alex Murphy]

The $30-million (€22-million) drawbridge project was supposed to open this month, and become an instant landmark connecting Valdivia with Teja island by bridging the Cau Cau River. But it has ended up a laughing stock in local social media, as Chileans wondered how construction workers managed to mess up something as seemingly clear as up and down.

Government overseers employing union labor. What could go wrong?

[cloudmountain]

The Chileans should have hired an Italian company.
They are the best bridge builders in the world. Have been for a long time.

[dfwgator]

“That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.”

[gorush]

How prescient was Ayn Rand?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That is because there is not much to see. Until you try to raise/lower the bridge. Then it doesn’t work.

[bunkerhill7]

“at least one traffic deck had been installed upside down.”

This company should be getting a lot of Australian bridge construction contracts soon.

[tet68]

Actually this is pretty simple, the bridge section was
fabricated in Spain which is above the equator and the
bridge was built in Chile below the equator. So it
was a case of simple misunderstanding.
If they take the bridge section back to Spain, every thing
will be fine...

[blueunicorn6]

Well, here in the good old USA, I saw a fire station built with doors that were too small for the firetrucks.

[mylife]

Gee, and Texas tried to get these chingalera’s to build our highways.

[RetiredTexasVet]

In government speak ... it meets the government requirements and specifications.

[S.O.S121.500]

Am I racist if I laughed?

[cripplecreek]

Years ago the company that rebuilt the main road through our hometown didn’t match the road to the side streets. The side streets met the road at a point about 3 feet higher than the new road.

When they tore up the old road they neglected to refill it to the right level. I don’t know how they missed it because the curbs went in before repaving and you would think someone would notice the waist high curbs.

They eventually came back and cut the side streets down to the new road grade. It looks kind of odd to this day because the curbs are 3 feet high everywhere but the corners and the side streets have a sharp little hill right at the corner.

[Kirkwood]

Italians do great with ships, sports cars, bridges, and canals. Spanish, not so much.

[wally_bert]

Scetv’s new facility built in the mid 90s had hallways big enough to drive a car though. Why is anyone’s guess but the great architect forgot to put a large enough door in the plans.