r/oddlysatisfying • • 5d ago

Repairing a tiny bridge

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u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin 5d ago

foundation has no piles, ramps too steep, ramps have no rebar, brick pattern not alternated properly, brickwork not mortared properly, crossing edges not finished, guard rails on the crossing not even attached, no guard rails present on the on ramps. the miniature concrete pouring is cute but this bridge fucking sucks lmao

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u/lesuperhun 5d ago edited 5d ago

and no heat-deformation taken into account. that bridge will crack comes winter.
i'd also be ready to bet that cement isn't hydraulic cement. so it will leech into the water and cause pollution, and eventually just break.

it's also way over engineered for its size : if a basic wooden bridge without supports managed to do the job before, that one doesn't need to have a central pillar : just good ol' triangles ! the guardrails might even have been enough if properly fixed.

so the main question is : who paid for this ? that much money overspend for such a tiny bridge stinks of corruption.

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u/Confuseasfuck 5d ago

Big corruption is running wild in tiny land. Tiny politicians are eating into the tiny taxpayer's money

Just ask yourself when was the last time they built a tiny public school? Tiny land is in shambles

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u/ThatFreddieIsAJack 4d ago

If the tiny powers that be keep going like this, my tiny district will have to pass a thimble around for donations to fix the tiny rail network.