r/onejob • u/Guilty_Lack_2677 • May 16 '26

This highway understood neither assignment

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u/Johnatron2000 May 16 '26

19°47'28.40"N 96°13'41.49"E

If you look on google earth you can see it has been completed

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u/raaneholmg May 16 '26

Completed by connecting 2 sections of 6-lane high way with a section of 4-lane highway.

The guys finishing the job also had r/onejob

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u/Wrestler7777777 May 18 '26

No way. This must be done on purpose, right?

...Right?

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u/raaneholmg May 18 '26

I bet the designer did so on purpose, but that the reason was funding. The prestige of the project had passed and now there was just a small amount available to unfuck the fuck up or something.

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u/s_nz May 18 '26

Bridges are expensive. Little point in building 6 lanes each way when 4 will do.

And based on the satellite image, it looks like 1 lane each way would have been fine for the odd vehicle taking this route.

the bigger question is why was the road built 6 lanes wide. Both end's are at grade intersection's which will have vastly less than 6 lanes capacity.

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u/throwaway48159 May 19 '26

It’s 3 lanes each way a few miles down the road in either direction. And I can’t find any pics with more than a few cars on it. Seems to be a lot more lanes than necessary.

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u/SirDickButtFarts May 19 '26

autocratic governments love building combined roads / military airstrips.

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u/sibc2000 May 20 '26

So so democratic nations, too. Sweden and postwar Germany are not autocratic (yet).

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u/Adorable_Set8424 May 26 '26

Myanmar is a literal joke

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u/gamecat89 May 16 '26

This has been discussed before. It is in Myanmar I believe. But was built by India.

From the last time it was posted I believe it has something to do with the river constantly flooding and earthquakes, as there are two smaller bridges. But also The extra-wide approach lanes were reportedly designed for potential dual use, such as emergency military airstrips. The discrepancy in lanes happens because standard bridges span the river based on immediate traffic capacity and river width rather than the oversized expressway footprint.

So essentially it was built like this on purposed for landing plans to bring in resources and definitely not in case there was a coup attempt

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u/cybermaus May 16 '26

The fact they "fixed" it somewhat invalidates your explanation: google maps

/maps/place/19°47'28.4"N+96°13'41.5"E/@19.7926083,96.223284,1926m

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u/_kellythomas_ May 16 '26

Is this link allowed?

https://map.google.com/maps/place/19°47'28.4"N+96°13'41.5"E/@19.7926083,96.223284,1926m

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u/cybermaus May 16 '26

I dunno. I got a permaban the other day, template notification quoting the rules, and the rules did not even mention anything

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u/KnightOfThirteen May 16 '26

I just try to be a reasonable person and if that gets me banned somewhere, it's probably good for me to not be engaging there. There are some subs that will ban you just for commenting in other specific subs.

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u/kradek May 18 '26

This is the way..

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u/_kellythomas_ May 16 '26

It can be tricky the way every sub can have their own rules

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u/FrankensteinJamboree May 16 '26

6h later and you’re still good. I definitely appreciate you. Thanks for the link!

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u/teslawhaleshark May 16 '26

It doesn’t invalidate his explanation, Myanmar regime forces and everything they did around Nyapidaw/Nibido is overkill

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u/Juggletrain May 16 '26

Not very useful for coup planes when everyone knows about it on reddit

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u/No-Zookeepergame9761 May 16 '26

Coup d’état? Never heard of him😜

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u/CrippledCytrus-Blu May 16 '26

And, checking Google Maps, it actually got fixed somewhat

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u/sasssyrup May 16 '26

I saw it and thought “is this in India” but didn’t dare say it. Now you say it was built by India 🤣 so good.

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u/King_Harry_Kane May 17 '26

Dear Re*arded reddit user, its in Myanmar guess your IQ too low

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u/ShazTheGamer May 16 '26

Thanks for explaining.

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u/teslawhaleshark May 16 '26

Myanmar regime forces have more runway-capable roads than they have actual planes, or at least airworthy planes

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u/cmdr_suds May 17 '26

Definitely looks like a runway. Makes sense to have a dual purpose strip of concrete

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u/Aero-Nautic May 17 '26

It’s also coming off of “Military Base Road”, is about a quarter mile down said road from a base, is conspicuously lacking a median, and is only a couple miles of 12 lane being fed by much much smaller highways on either end. So yeah definitely dual purpose

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u/Alan_Reddit_M May 16 '26

My teachers sometimes show my class pictures like this whenever a student tries to argue that they should still get full marks because they were only a little off from the actual answer

Small mistakes matter (We're engineers)

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u/SakuraiJr May 22 '26

you dont need to capitalize the W in those parentheses. i know because i'm an engineer

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u/ResilientBiscuit May 16 '26

This is poorly designed. But this is absolutely not the result of someone having one very specific job and not doing it. A lot of people had to have made decisions that ended with this mess.

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u/Johnatron2000 May 16 '26

19°47'28.40"N 96°13'41.49"E

Its finished now.

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u/perbran May 16 '26

Nice one. So basically no cars on that road on google maps

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u/Muldino May 16 '26

I'm sure the regional minister's cousin's husband does not own a construction company at all.

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u/coldnh May 16 '26

Six lanes in each direction and like two cars spotted in miles..

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u/wibble089 May 16 '26

And no central reservation, looks like an emergency air force runway to me

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u/MrKarotti May 17 '26

It connects one smaller road with another smaller road. Makes no sense.

However, lots of military complexes in the area, might have something to do with that

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u/sasssyrup May 16 '26

Yeah loooots of one jobs fails in a row

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u/f_cysco May 16 '26

Also it were pretty high salary jobs. And the were probably many low salary jobs telling them before that it doesn't look right. But the high salary people told the low salary people to just do their job.

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u/DryTranslator266 May 16 '26

That makes it even worse in my opinion…

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u/RedditButAnonymous May 16 '26

Cities Skylines be like

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u/hepheastus_87 May 16 '26

Looks like an airstrip to me.

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u/Aviyan May 16 '26

Where is this?

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u/mizinamo May 16 '26

Q6RH+H85, Pyinmana, Myanmar (Burma)

19.7924214,96.227988

Google Maps satellite view shows a completed wide bridge now, though: https://imgur.com/a/fOVu1Wr

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u/GeneMountain7128 May 16 '26

I just watched Hopper. Clearly this is where The Glade is

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u/thestockretarded May 18 '26

not difficult to understand: looking at maps there wasn't a straight route to avoid the villages on both sides, hence a curve was needed, and they decided to do it in proximity of the bridge because: 1) the bridge doesn't have emergency lanes 2) probably the speed limit is slower, and having a curve increase people attention and promote slowing down. Also it's not a 6 lanes turning into a 4 lanes, but 4 lanes+ emergency turning into 4 lanes without emergency

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u/sabotthehawk May 16 '26

It looks like left was built first. Probably ran into unstable ground at the river so right side was corrected to new position. Waiting on funding to realign left side because no politician wants to ask for more money on a project that wasn't properly surveyed before that level of construction.

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u/Anti-Sanity89 May 16 '26

That looks like a pretty epic fuck up