Experts????????

Dorsetmike

Dorsetmike

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There has been a delay opening a fancy new lifting bridge in Poole, (image from Wiki, attributed to Chris Downer)

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after load tests, some cracks appeared in the tarmac surface, then when they raised the bridge chunks of tarmac fell off! They are now "investigating" and tearing off the tarmac.

The contractor Hochtief are reputed to be experts at building bridges, makes ya wonder. > The other lifting bridge in town has been going up and down since the 1920s.

A New Zealand firm, ASR, contracted to install an artificial surf reef near Boscombe pier, it's not performing as ASR assured it would; I always thought a good heavy swell was needed such as bulds up over a long stretch of ocean, not the piddlin' little waves in the English channel. It appears it is mainly made from anchored sand bags, and cost £millions; some eejit drove a boat over and the prop ripped one or more of the bags; 3 years on and it still ain't sorted; Experts again?

Any more "expert" works out there?
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
The best definition of Expert was one I came across years ago:
X = an unknown quantity, spurt = a drip under pressure
 
Dorsetmike

Dorsetmike

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matsoljare said:
What i'm wondering is why the hell is it shaped like that :confused:
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That's what most of us who live here are wondering, I'm sure a conventional bridge could have been installed more quickly and for much lower cost. Methinks probably somebody got a few back handers along the way.

It's over 15 years since a new bridge was thought necessary, the main need is to help traffic from the cross channel ferries get clear of the town; the first proposal was for a longer, higher bridge which would have kept traffic further away from the town centre which would have been ideal, the local council held a design competition costing the odd million or two and took a couple of years to decide on a winner, after which the central government said no, too expensive. They have since spent far more than the original idea would have cost on further design studies and competitions and finally got this far. Plus it now has to go through some of the busier town roads.

The majority of the water traffic is private pleasure craft.
 
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John Watt

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I was just bike-hiking through Niagara Falls, seeing some photos of the bridge that collapsed in the fifties,
but seeing all this water reminds me of a greater meltdown.
A sixty foot fishing boat, one of the first big victims of the Japanese earthquake,
is now washing ashore in British Columbia.
 
GoneBaroque

GoneBaroque

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For the past 50 years the town (city?) where I live has talked about building a new bridge over the river which goes through. Well they finally decided to build a bridge identical to the ugly 100 year old one to handle North bound traffic and let the old one handle the South bound traffic. Well they built the new bridge at a cost more than double the estimate and added a $500,000 clock between the two bridges, and then discovered that the old bridge was structurally unsound and required extensive repairs. So finally after another extensive delay both bridges are finished and happily funneling three lanes of traffic per bridge onto a two lane road on either side. You tell me!
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
John Watt said:
A sixty foot fishing boat, one of the first big victims of the Japanese earthquake,
is now washing ashore in British Columbia.
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Keep well away it could be radio active as are the birds that have now left on their migration routes
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Puffinus tenuirostris - Tasmanian Shearwater aka Mutton Bird, they are a source of food in the Pacific they are reported as now being radio active and headed our way see the migration path that these birds follow in the link I have posted, so a lot of this kind of thing goes into the food chain and is kept very quite it has been going on for years remember Mururoa Atoll used as a nuclear test site by the Frenches in the 60s, I will say no more
http://www.port-fairy.com/shearwaters.htm
 
Corno Dolce

Corno Dolce

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Heavens to Betsy!!! First Tasmanian Devils and then Mutton Birds and then Bulldog Ants - WOW! All manner of fiendish things come from Tasmania - WHY? Maybe some secret nuclear testing has produced mutant and mutating species(every new generation).
 
John Watt

John Watt

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Too bad you didn't reference a far greater nuclear mutation, Bikini Island.
I still can meltdown, thinking about those.

I have to admit, this nuclear meltdown worries me in ways Chernobyl didn't.
The level of released radiation is a lot higher, but because it went into the ocean it's not as bad on land.
But that radiation bloom will travel through the ocean for thousands of years, killing everything it touches,
and mutating everything else.
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
John Watt said:
The level of released radiation is a lot higher, but because it went into the ocean it's not as bad on land.
But that radiation bloom will travel through the ocean for thousands of years, killing everything it touches,
and mutating everything else.
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Just stop eating anything that is from, or eats things from 'THE SEA' and to be on the safe side don't eat birds or cattle that graze on paddocks that could be contaminated by birds or fish, + be very careful of your corn flakes and stuff
 
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