IN 7 Engineers Suspended Over $2.3 Million Bridge with 90-Degree Turn - I don’t see the issue here.

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Central India’s Madhya Pradesh Government recently suspended seven engineers for the faulty design of a 200 million rupee ($2.3 million)bridge with a 90-degree turn.

The new Rail Over Bridge in Bhopal was announced 10 years ago and cost the state of Madhya Pradesh over 200 million rupees to complete. It was supposed to improve connectivity between Mahamai Ka Bagh, Pushpa Nagar, and the station area with New Bhopal, but all it has managed to do so far is spark controversy over a major blunder in its design – a nearly 90-degree turn built into the bridge. Photos of the questionable feature recently went viral on Indian social media, raising concerns over safety and how engineers could have overlooked such a critical error.

After the controversial bridge started trending on X (Twitter), Chief Minister Mohan Yadav launched an inquiry into the situation and subsequently announced the suspension of seven engineers involved in its design, as well as another inquiry into the activity of a retired superintendent engineer in connection with the faulty design.

“Seven engineers, including two chief engineers, have been suspended with immediate effect. A departmental inquiry will be conducted against a retired sub-engineer. Both the construction agency and the design consultant have been blacklisted for submitting faulty design of the ROB,” Yadav said.

Both the design consultant and the architect firm involved in the construction of the Rail Over Bridge have been blacklisted by the local government, but VD Verma, the chief engineeron this project, previously said that he and his team had no other choice but to build the 90-degree turn due to limited land space and the presence of a metro station nearby. Bhopal authorities are now proposing that more land be purchased, which would allow the implementation of a safer turn.

The 648-metre bridge, which cost 200 million rupees to build, was meant to eliminate long delays at railway crossings and shorten the commute for nearly three hundred thousand people, but so far it is only generating controversy.
 
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Don't get me wrong, the engineers and firm who did this do have fault. But no one from the government who may have discussed plans, signed off on the work, and a myriad of other things never looked at the proposition and asked WTF? Oh wait, it's India, the proper people got bribed, and since they're government, they're untouchable.
 
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1886: A white man with nothing but pencil and paper designs and builds the Brooklyn bridge. Over a busy river. I still stands today.
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2025: 7 jeet "engineers" with access to computer aided design software, satellite mapping, and preformed concrete technology come up with this
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Sam Losco said:
That's not 90 degrees. Also not a big deal if the speed is kept low. It's not like cars can't turn that sharp. It's not a highway bridge anyway so the speeds should be low.
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*A* car navigating the outside of that turn could do it.

Now picture a decked-out jeet lorry driven by a man with tertiary syphilis trying to navigate the inside of the turn while a busload of polio-affected orphans is coming in the other direction.

"Do not redeem the turn saaaaaaaar! You bloody benchod maader chod! You dalit who eats shit! You goat fucker whose women relatives are all randi whores and whose men relatives are all hijra! Do not redeeeeeeeeem!"

They should have just punched a bunch of holes in the thing and made it the world's largest open-air shitting bridge.

I look forward to seeing this on "Watch People Die."
 
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Internal PWD documents show the original 2018 plan featured a more manageable 45-degree skew. That plan was scrapped after the Railways refused to approve construction on its land. A second design attempted to accommodate the Metro line. A third version adjusted for alignment errors, though the Railways later admitted that the final result “is neither fulfilling the functional requirement nor safe for road users.”

Now, Bhopal authorities are discussing buying additional land to fix the turn, but that means more money and more delays.
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While it would be easy to take the expected stance of "pajeet engineers are dumb", I think this story speaks to Indian offical and management retardation, with the engineers being scapegoated for an outcome they foresaw and tried to prevent.

It sounds like they were given a task with impossible constraints with the land available (and likely just got screamed at when they raised concerns), and so they just built the only thing possible with the retarded constraints they had, then when it was finished and the public pointed out how retarded it is, the same officials and managers felt the heat, and just scapegoated the same engineers that undoubtedly voiced concerns.

Maybe American civil engineers would have just refused to build it entirely and taken the chances they get fired, but idk. Sounds more like corrupt officials that blew the money on the project on other shit and powertripping Railway officials refusing an entirely reasonable request from the engineers.
 
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Sam Losco said:
That's not 90 degrees. Also not a big deal if the speed is kept low. It's not like cars can't turn that sharp. It's not a highway bridge anyway so the speeds should be low.
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Sharp bends like this don't exist for a reason. A huge number of cars on the outer side will understeer that bend without a high partition in the center. The inside being completely fucking blind makes it suicidal to approach.
If there is a partition, there will be total traffic constipation because nobody will be able to take the bend at a reasonable speed.
No, it's not 90 degrees but this was still engineered by retards who don't understand automobile traffic and think of roads as something for cow-driven carts.
 
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KiwiFuzz2 said:
On further consideration, one of the terrifying things about this is the lack of sidewalks.

People on foot, scooters, people with pushcarts, cars, buses, and trucks all competing for the same space.

Running across the tracks might seriously be safer.
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Are you joking? Indians basically live on the train tracks. One of their own ministers called the rail network "the world's largest open toilet" because all the jeets shit on the train tracks. They know jeets will continue to wander across the tracks and will never go the extra effort to go over a bridge instead, so they didn't even waste the resources on something that would literally never be used.

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still engineered by retards who don't understand automobile traffic and think of roads as something for cow-driven carts.
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ffs read the story. They initially designed something logical, but power-tripping jeet officials set them up for failure. The land space they were allotted to build on forced their hand.
 
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jertzog said:
Sharp bends like this don't exist for a reason. A huge number of cars on the outer side will understeer that bend without a high partition in the center. The inside being completely fucking blind makes it suicidal to approach.
If there is a partition, there will be total traffic constipation because nobody will be able to take the bend at a reasonable speed.
No, it's not 90 degrees but this was still engineered by retards who don't understand automobile traffic and think of roads as something for cow-driven carts.
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Every standard intersection in the states is 90 degrees for traffic turning right, and it works because they're made wide enough for swing room and then some so a misjudgement means a hopped curb and not a mating dance with a concrete wall.

The fundamental angle of that turn isn't the issue, just the fact there's no transition to a widened spot, it's not there... then it IS ... and then it's not.

And this means, as you pointed out? Nothing longer than a hatchback is going to be able to make that as-is.
 
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