“When it was built in 1936, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was a Depression-era project that put scores of Americans to work. When its $6.3 billion replacement opens in two years, it will be an international affair from the bottom up, an example of massive outsourcing that has drawn both praise and criticism.
Half a dozen countries contributed expertise or materials, none more so than China.
“China was immensely helpful to getting this project built,” says California Department of Transportation spokesman Bart Ney. “They were able to turn the steel around and work directly with our own inspectors to make sure we met the specifications of what this bridge required.”
Several thousand Chinese workers spent five years fabricating the steel used to construct the roadbeds, cable strands, and landmark tower for the single anchor suspension bridge set to open in 2013.
But the project is sparking outrage among groups who argue the work should have stayed here.
Huge deck segments were shipped overseas from Shanghai, contributing to pollution, say critics, and delivering another blow to California’s battered economy and 12 % unemployment rate.”.................
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/20/san-francisco-oakland-bay-bridge-controversially-made-in-china/
Just some more infrastructure built with ‘coolie labor’.
Is “made in China” a guarantee that it’s inferior?
I will guarantee if the Obamacare system was made in China the quality would have been 1,000% better.
Why? In China poor performance and ineptitude results in removal from the job.....or worse yet.....removal from this earth.
In Obama’s world failure or poor quality is always blamed on some other factor and no one is punished.
China quality VS American quality? Used to be that the word “china” on anything meant sorry quality. Now, it’s the other way around.
Yes but the back story is that those same people who are crying spent the last 25 years running any business capable of making such parts out of Kalifornia.
Somewhere on the 'net there's a picture of a toppled Chinese high-rise building that had inadequate foundations.
Oh yeah, here it is.
http://constructionknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/why-are-buildings-falling-down-in-china/
"Lack of transparency" means no one knows how these things happen.
I am very afraid of the fate of this new bridge.