Can Japanese road crews fix the M25 after they're done?

[-Z-]

Incredible post quake rebuilding going on by the road crews in Japan.

MARCH 17:




MARCH 23 ^^^


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369307/Ja...

[Tyngwndwn]

6 Days ....never,......straight up, is that for real?

[Krise]

I doubt that is a main route, 6 days to do that, the groundoworks, and cement pouring would take that alone !!

[Switch`]

+1
Hire them!

[Tuvra]

Tyngwndwn said:

6 Days ....never,......straight up, is that for real?

Thats easily possible with enough (willing) men & resources.

Imagine it in this country, it would probably be left as it is whilst it went through a 3 month procurement system.....

[anonymous-user]

I love Japan.

[edo]

Amazing.

It took Chichester council 3 months to come and fill a pothole outside my house....

[Petrolhead_Rich]

If accurate, that is very impressive, I give it a year before everything is back to normal in japan infrastructure wise!

[mlj]

Remind me of that TopGear episode where they fixed a raod in 24 hours instead of the council saying it would take a month or so.

Top work Japan

[JeS10]

Pride in one's nation, and a solid work ethic go a long way to getting a good job done. Even then, impressive stuff.

[hondafanatic]

I'm would not be suprised if that was the case. I remember reading an article while going round the Hiroshima Peace Museum, that they had the railways up and running within 24 hours after the bombing.

When I was there last October, there was a monsoon battering one side of the island that took out some sections of the railway, as in, ripped the power lines out for example...they had it up and running again within a few hours after the storm passed.

[CommanderJameson]

I smell a rat.

Googling for this produces no reliable source other than the Daily Soovy story.

I hope it's true, though.

I just don't think it is.

[rallycross]

Looks real to me, newly repaired road v's damaged old road.

Just shows how useless we are in this country.

[renrut]

doogz said:

JeS10 said:

Pride in one's nation, and a solid work ethic go a long way to getting a good job done. Even then, impressive stuff.

This, Japan's people seem immensely proud of being Japanese, not something you can really say about the UK these days.

Probably to do with the internal divisions within the UK or the way the media portrays the UK and the English in particular.

[gareth.e]

I've seen this on bbc news the other day afaik.. Pretty sure the stats are legit

[anonymous-user]

Can't shake off the feeling that those two photos are the wrong way around, the quake that was strong enough to demolish the road seems to have left the buildings in the background (photo 2) intact.

[aizvara]

This is something which regularly annoys me; here in Cambridge we had roadworks on a particular bridge for five months; the purpose was to alter a cycle lane. How is it possible that it takes this long? There's a building a few hundred metres away from this, just started having the foundations dug and laid, its apparently going to take over a year. Fairly modest office block, too. I won't even go into the never-ending Cambridge Guided Busway non-construction/argument.

I suppose its the willingness to employ large numbers of people to get things done over there with the minimum of disruption. Makes our construction industry/planning look like a joke.

[r11co]

Symbolica said:

Can't shake off the feeling that those two photos are the wrong way around, the quake that was strong enough to demolish the road seems to have left the buildings in the background (photo 2) intact.

Nope. You can clearly see that what was an overgrown earth embankment in picture one is now a fresh concrete re-inforced one in picture 2.

[lenny007]

Should we not all be looking at these pictures and marvelling at the speed of work (and most likely quality) without sniping and scepticism?

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[otolith]

Look at the trees and bushes top left - those two photographs were taken pretty close together in time, certainly not far apart enough in time for the vegetation which is missing from the right hand side to have grown.