Posted on 07/01/2025 4:39:00 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
I see why they did it, as stated, limited land space. It’s no different than a street with a 90 degree turn, and there are millions of those all over. That’s all it is, an elevated street that happens to be an overpass.
Now in the US that would not have happened because the governments would condemn any and all lands necessary to make a straight overpass. In the process of condemnation and construction there would be the typical graft. Land owners getting screwed while elites get richer.
FWIW, Amnesty International says 22,000 were killed and 500K suffered injuries.
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IIRC, it wasn’t even Union Carbide’s US operations, UCIL was a “separate entity, owned, managed and operated exclusively by Indian citizens in India.”
Correct. I just recall it being a horrible moment of mass carnage and prolonged suffering. I overlooked the precise details.
I know exactly the off-ramp you’re talking about. Even that is better that what we’re seeing here.
In India that means the crowds on top of the train would get scraped off when the train passes under the bridge.
I’d go with 80.
If they suspended the seven engineers from the bridge, is it now a suspension bridge?
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This is true and still exists: The Huey P. Long Bridge in Bridge City, La was built from each side into the middle instead of one side all the way across. The surveyors miscalculated so that the two sides did not meet exactly plumb. On the East side of the bridge there is a notable but small curve. I used to have to drive it every day for several years and I laughed every time I got to that part of the bridge! On the way home I laughed when I got to the slight curve when travelling in the other direction! ;-)
It probably can be seen in photos or videos.
Back in college we called it “Close enough for tunnel work”. The guy that surveyed for the Eisenhower Tunnel outside of Denver was a professor there. He was off by something like a foot when he surveyed for the tunnel.
But - the survey was for a 10-foot diameter initial tunnel (coming in from both the west and the east and meeting in the middle). The error was easily smoothed out when building the much larger, multi-laned freeway tunnel that is over a mile long.
I don’t know the angle, but it is > 90 !
There was a vicious labor dispute in progress at the time of the incident. Strikers sabotaged the plant.
See also https://www.bhopal.com/bhopal-tragedy-cause.html
Investigators believe the saboteurs died in the cascading failures caused by their actions.
Some two and a half years after the tragedy, UCC filed a lengthy court document in India detailing the findings of its scientific and legal investigations: the cause of the disaster was sabotage.
UCC’s investigation proved with virtual certainty that the disaster was caused by the direct entry of water into Tank 610 through a hose connected to the tank.
All of this was supported by hard evidence set forth in the presentation made by Ashok S. Kalelkar of Arthur D. Little, Inc. at The Institution of Chemical Engineers Conference on Preventing Major Chemical Accidents in London, U.K., in 1988.
Early accounts of the disaster that focused on the GOI’s theory that water-washing caused the accident subsequently were disproved.
Really! I never heard about that side of the story till now!
All the smart ones died in the chemical accident, apparently.
That many were injured.
Only 16,000 were believed to eventually have died from it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Apparently they just noticed the problem about the time its finished? Wouldn’t someone look at the survey stakes of the support structures and begin to ask questions?
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