Life is like a roller coaster... you can either throw your hands in the air and scream all the way, or you can throw up half way through... either way you have to wait until the end and will annoy someone along the way...
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Maybe I have a broken marriage, my wife is awesome! In fact I rub her head
Maybe I have a broken marriage, my wife is awesome! In fact I rub her head
I'm sorry, but your situation is not the norm, but the exception.
No no no, do not blame the engineers. Engineers designed it perfectly. It’s the bean counters that cut corners in the plan to “save costs” that led to short term savings becoming long term liabilities. A centimetre thinner here, a litre less of that in the mix there saves 10% on the total cost. Meanwhile a road that would have lasted ten years now needs to be rebuilt in three.
The only thing engineers are guilty of is their inability to argue with idiots.
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I'm a bit conflicted about having to agree with @Raindance .
When I was at university, during the last days of the dinosaur invasions, a special compulsory "communications" credit was introduced that all engineering students had to complete. Remarkably many of them found this credit to be one of the most difficult parts of their degree.
Communication is the tip of the iceberg ... Do you remember that optional 6 month part time module / course called Programming that you could do at Van Zyl and Pritchard in the late 70's? .... well that's now a four year degree and it's called engineering, (lower case purposeful). They no longer study the subjects we did back in Moses' time. The Lion's share of all engineering schools at bachelor level is now computer programming, and teaching that on a foundation of a 30% pass mark for Maths and Science is a challenge to say the least
So... depending which era engineer / Engineer we are referring too ... all parties above may be correct
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We have an unfinished bridge in Cape Town, but not the fault of the engineers.
"The Foreshore Freeway Bridge, also known as Cape Town's Unfinished Bridge, is an incomplete section of what was intended to be the Eastern Boulevard Highway in the city bowl of Cape Town, South Africa. Conceptualised and designed in the late 1960s, work began in the early 1970s with the freeway aimed at alleviating future traffic congestion in the city expected in the years to come. However, due to budget constraints in city expenditure at the time, the project never came to completion and has stood in its unfinished state since construction officially ended in 1977. While there has been much speculation in local press over the years regarding the freeway's eventual conclusion, the city council has yet to come to a decision regarding the matter. The structure has become somewhat of a tourist attraction over the years and is also a popular movie and fashion shoot location."
"The Foreshore Freeway Bridge, also known as Cape Town's Unfinished Bridge, is an incomplete section of what was intended to be the Eastern Boulevard Highway in the city bowl of Cape Town, South Africa. Conceptualised and designed in the late 1960s, work began in the early 1970s with the freeway aimed at alleviating future traffic congestion in the city expected in the years to come. However, due to budget constraints in city expenditure at the time, the project never came to completion and has stood in its unfinished state since construction officially ended in 1977. While there has been much speculation in local press over the years regarding the freeway's eventual conclusion, the city council has yet to come to a decision regarding the matter. The structure has become somewhat of a tourist attraction over the years and is also a popular movie and fashion shoot location."
We did something similar in Gauteng ... Anyone that used / uses the Linksfield offramp on the N3 would notice the "chicane" now included in the design. This was a claimed 6 month project, where they wanted to build a second bridge in parallel to the existing one to improve traffic flow ...
Planning of course began shortly after the disbandment of said Town Planning Department, and after some five years, (where they couldn't get the levels of old and new bridges the same), they decided to build a third bridge on the other side of the original bridge, and demolished their first attempt(s), and ... the new bridge was now half a metre taller than the original on the other side!
Thankfully at this stage they realised their limitations, (it only took five years
), and called upon the original town planning Engineers , who then blocked the entire road for another six months, built a floating slab on top of both bridges with a chicane to enter it from the east, and widened the opposite side of the road on the West side 
Just another f. UpWe did something similar in Gauteng ... Anyone that used / uses the Linksfield offramp on the N3 would notice the "chicane" now included in the design. This was a claimed 6 month project, where they wanted to build a second bridge in parallel to the existing one to improve traffic flow ...
Planning of course began shortly after the disbandment of said Town Planning Department, and after some five years, (where they couldn't get the levels of old and new bridges the same), they decided to build a third bridge on the other side of the original bridge, and demolished their first attempt(s), and ... the new bridge was now half a metre taller than the original on the other side!
Thankfully at this stage they realised their limitations, (it only took five years
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Today's take home message
Today's take home message
Thanks @Grand Guru. I'll remember that next time someone comes to my house at 10.45p.m. looking for vape stuff
