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Or they could have just made a bridge over the river …
Then it would be a lot harder to do, since they wanted those boats to cross under it.
Trust me, I’m an engineer. If they did it this way, it’s the best way.
Anyway, now every tunnel and bridge is a win. I’m out of here.
Trust an engineer to find the best way to do things… Ah!
If an engineer did it this way, it’s the best way… Huh!
You guys are so full of yourselves. You engineers are also responsible when a structure fails, or when one of your genial ideas ends up costing 10x more than expected. I’ve met so many so-called “engineers” that I wouldn’t even trust to work at McD’s it isn’t even funny. My niece died when an overpass collapsed, days after it was inspected by engineers who certified there was no risk of collapse, whatsoever.
Right, if you guys say something, then it must be true. You keep believing that, I’ll keep believing I live in a world populated by morons, incompetents and people without enough honor to bother doing their job right.
That said, this particular picture is impressing. But how long before the tunnel floods?
consider the actual failure rates to the number of buildings/overpasses/bridges across the country. yes, it happens and its unfortunate when it does, sorry bout your niece thats part of life bro, every profession (doctors/politicians/bankers) fails at times.
Speaking as an engineer, screw you. I don’t know what you do for a living but I bet you don’t hold yourself to the same standard of absolute perfection you hold us to. Yes, an engineer’s job is to find the mathematically optimal way to do something. If this is the way that was chosen, then yes, it has to be the best way, assuming everyone was doing their job.
I don’t believe you that some engineer “certified” that “there was no risk of collapse, whatsoever”. No engineer I know would ever make a statement that obviously stupid about anything. And if they did, their bosses wouldn’t believe them.
As for us all being “morons, incompetents and people without enough honor to bother doing their job right”, why don’t you give it a try and see how well you do at it. If you’re too much of a coward to try, then shut up.
Regarding flooding: there are many, many, many tunnels and other below-sea-level structures in the world. Are they all flooded and useless? No. You see, we have these things called PUMPS.
Dude chill out that guy was clearly hurt by an error. Politicians and lawyers like to speak in certainties when trying to minimize or maximize the damage of accidents like this don’t blame a layman for misunderstanding rhetoric.
There will never be a pump strong enough to keep that from flooding that seems to be a tunnel built into a dyke. Meaning that if there is any breach or a flood large enough to fill that tunnel it will quickly need to be closed but good news it could be a great warning of a pending failure of the entire dyke
that all depends on the size and power of the pump, combined with the amount of water flooding in.
I mean, all you need to pump out 1200 m^3/h is a 1000 bhp diesel engine and a pump the size of a skippy-ball.
and when using an ancient/foolproof diesel engine it’ll go until the air intake submerges.
Um, it’s a tunnel. A very short, shallow tunnel. How exactly is this grander than the other thousands of tunnels in the world?
because most tunnels are build bellow the water, this time the water is put on top of the tunnel:p It’s less naturel.
Ummm… what?
I second that. What are you talking about. The tunnel is below the water. A win would be one of the many water bridges in Europe where the water is actually raised up. This is just a tunnel.
Guys, this is a channel bridge. It is by no means a “Tunnel” for the cars. A tunnel suggests that you’re actually moving under the Earth, but this is at most an underpass (Look at it! It’s just about twice as wide as that bus you can see on the road!). And the bridge for the water is still artificially created.
Because Water is the natural enemy of a tunnel. It creeps in at the walls, destroys the concrete, ruins the road and makes it hard to dig the hole thing in the first place.
That statement, water is the natural enemy of a tunnel, is exactly why the design is actually a FAIL in disguise.
One good storm or a large leak or a crashing boat and the entire underpass is flooded full of water, unusable. Any driver with enough experience around the world can tell stories of flooded underpasses.
It may look less cool, but a raised road really is the intelligent design choice.
This is an aquaduct.. we have soooo many of those here in the Netherlands.
It’s an aquaduct. How is this a win? They’ve been around for ages!
Romans Win!
The rivers near where I live are too shallow for boats, so they built canals along the one shoreline (no longer used). To cross over to the other side to go up a tributary, there used to be canal bridges, full of water, for the boats to cross the river.
Well I think its a cool tunnel, just sayin
OMG it’s like an un-tunnel!
I meant bridge
It’s a really cool build bridge/tunnel.
Got like 2 of those here in Frylan, Holland
such a thing is called an aquaduct. there are plenty of them here in the Netherlands and this is possibly the smallest, least WIN, of them all.
I call this type of aquaduct a fail. Ever seen one filled with water? They destroy traffic. I’d prefer the less-beautiful mounds of earth with a traffic overpass.
Welland, Ontario, Canada here. We have many tunnels and bridges, and an aquaduct in our area. We also have locks, that lower/raise ships a few hundred feet over the course of the seaway.
Its cool..till it breaks.
Now you’re thinking with portals
What happens when it floods?
water gets in..
Nah, first flood isn’t that high. second it’s just two lakes under high water height control here in the netherlands.
There is one in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fort+Lauderdale,+FL&hl=en&ll=26.117867,-80.137166&spn=0.001965,0.00246&sll=25.955622,-80.215387&sspn=1.002625,1.259308&oq=Fort+Lauderdale,+FL+&hnear=Fort+Lauderdale,+Broward,+Florida&t=m&z=19
(This image has been posted before)
Damn union hacks built the bridge upside down >:[
Come on guy, it’s all water over the bridge.
This is the aquaduct near Harderwijk, The netherlands. I’ve seen it getting built. But still i’ve seen more impressive aquaducts in my life.
For the google maps/earth fans:
coördinates: 52.36101,5.618402
So if thats a engineering win. what would u call this one:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserstra%C3%9Fenkreuz_Minden
i know its in german(maybe someone will find it in english..im too lazy) and u might dont get the texts, but just look at the pictures… its a watercross where they bridged two canals with each other
http://www.amtage.de/Wasserstrassenkreuz_Minden/wasserkreuz02_2009.jpg
It takes a very tall bridge to allow sailboats to pass under it. Easier to put the road under the water in this case. I believe all off the land in this area is “artificial” as it is reclaimed sea-bed, so the engineering efforts to put in a “boat bridge” like this are just a small part of the overall picture.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=knardijk&hl=en&ll=52.360817,5.618386&spn=0.002483,0.004823&sll=52.36103,5.618359&sspn=0.002483,0.004823&hnear=Knardijk,+The+Netherlands&t=h&z=18 Location. It’s the Knardijk in the Netherlands.
It’s an aqueduct. It’s how the canal gets over the road here in Lancaster, it’s also how the Princes Margrietkanaal gets over the motorway near Grou, etc. It’s nothing special.
This one is in The Netherlands, between Harderwijk and Zeewolde. It’s called an Aquaduct, and i pass through this one often. To google earth with you.
Yo dude, I think ya bridge is inside-out…
Boat bridge = cool
a strong rain = bad idea
any kind of accident = really bad idea
winter + water expands when frozen = wtf were they thinking
engineers do not always = smart
they built an overpass in Omaha a few years back, looks good, but it is in NE, guess what happens in the winter here? Where does the snow go?
engineers = do not always plan ahead = bad ideas = waste money
well.. this is one of the things that made dutch people famous around the world. water management. It’s safe to say the engineers working on this were well aware of problems of all kinds and back-up plans, as well emergency plans when back up plans don’t work are probably built into it.
We’ve got one of those in Montreal. The Lafontaine Tunnel, and it goes under the St-Lawrence.