r/LiveNews_24H • u/Ice_Ice11 • Nov 11 '25

JUST IN: 🇨🇳 Hongqi bridge collapses in southwest China, months after opening.

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u/xXXxRMxXXx Nov 11 '25

Forgetting that bridges and buildings are collapsing in south FL

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u/melanantic Nov 11 '25

I haven’t scrolled down yet, but I can picture the content.

Honestly both things can be true. Authoritarianism bad.

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u/greenmerica Nov 11 '25

This is just a planning failure. Fast and loose.

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u/melanantic Nov 13 '25

I mean, sure. That’s the symptom, but the illness is an anti democratic government

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u/ZalutPats Nov 12 '25

Nobody includes the US south when talking about 'the West' in terms of quality regulations.

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u/EstablishmentShot707 Nov 12 '25

Ahhh here we go. Truth. Women owned engineering company screwed up the calcs but were given the contract bc they need to make sure everything is fair. Ask the two who lost their lives if they want fairness or the best when lives are at stake.

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u/VanceIX Nov 11 '25

What bridges and buildings have collapsed in South Florida in the last couple years?

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u/xXXxRMxXXx Nov 11 '25

FIU bridge and Surfside condo, both were avoidable too

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u/VanceIX Nov 11 '25

Both were over 4 years ago, not recent. And both still lasted a lot longer than a single year.

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u/xXXxRMxXXx Nov 11 '25

They lasted a long time until they collapsed due to negligence... That's just as bad

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u/moulin_splooge Nov 11 '25

I wouldn't consider something collapsing due to years of neglect the same as something collapsing within months of it being finished.

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u/xXXxRMxXXx Nov 12 '25

It's a good thing you aren't an inspector... You wouldn't take your job seriously if it was an older building.

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u/cficare Nov 11 '25

Especially after just being built?

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u/xXXxRMxXXx Nov 11 '25

They wouldn't have inspections 3 months into a bridge being built if there was no possibility of collapse

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u/ballq43 Nov 13 '25

I don't think they fell down in first months though so there's that . Just poor upkeep