Huge Japanese sink-hole fixed in 5 days
Huge Japanese sink-hole fixed in 5 days
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55palfers

Original Poster:

6,389 posts

195 months

Tuesday 15th November 2016
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3936796/Ja...

This is an amazing job of work by the Japs.

Perhaps we should send a delegation of council highways bods over on a fact finding mission.

How long would it have taken to repair over here do we think?

A year?

rossub

6,050 posts

221 months

Tuesday 15th November 2016
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55palfers said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3936796/Ja...

This is an amazing job of work by the Japs.

Perhaps we should send a delegation of council highways bods over on a fact finding mission.

How long would it have taken to repair over here do we think?

A year?
It'll take 2 years to risk assess the trip to Japan, another year to shortlist who is going to go and a couple of years for the council to approve the funding for the trip.

By that time, 50% of the original shortlist will have retired and the rest will be on sick leave with the stress of the possibility of having to go to Japan.

Huff

3,445 posts

222 months

Tuesday 15th November 2016
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If that happened in Bristol the Council would (after2yrs of inactivity) call it essential to reducing pollution and discouraging car use, and so leave it...

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

259 months

Tuesday 15th November 2016
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Cripes. Second one fixed today. They are efficient:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

55palfers

Original Poster:

6,389 posts

195 months

Tuesday 15th November 2016
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funkyrobot said:
Cripes. Second one fixed today. They are efficient:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Hey-ho. If only we were allowed descriptive thread titles!

Equilibrium25

689 posts

165 months

Wednesday 16th November 2016
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Huff said:
If that happened in Bristol the Council would (after2yrs of inactivity) call it essential to reducing pollution and discouraging car use, and so leave it...
Spot on (I'm another fed up resident of Bristol)

EarlOfHazard

3,630 posts

189 months

Wednesday 16th November 2016
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From what the Japanese have learnt from this situation, if it were to arise again, it would probably be fixed in 4 days.



Edited by EarlOfHazard on Wednesday 16th November 08:36

Sheetmaself

6,128 posts

229 months

Wednesday 16th November 2016
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In fairness though this is right outside Hakata station, think Kings Cross in London.

Im not knocking them and indeed i love Fukuoka if only because it always triggers swear filters on emails, but there are lots of people pointing out tht there are sink hole in the UK from months if not years ago still not fixed, i suggest this is hardly a fair comparison. As stated earlier lets get one in the middle of London and see how quickly it is repaired, i agree it wont be near this time frame but it might not be as far off as we think.

Id also like to point out that whilst i am not in the city at the moment the first my mate had heard of this was when i emailed him to ask if he had seen it.

Just another point if anyone fancies a trip to the area, go into the station and go to sub level one, there is a little shop there which makes and sells theor own crisps which are served warm and are lovely.

Sheetmaself

6,128 posts

229 months

Monday 28th November 2016
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Whoops, its started to sink again.

Have asked a few mates to get down there and take some photos or videa but last time you couldnt get close for all the people wanting to take a look.