Posted on 07/21/2007 1:52:58 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
More than 80 vehicles stranded by subsidence on Tibet highway
www.chinaview.cn 2007-07-20 21:52:07
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LHASA, July 20 (Xinhua) -- More than 80 vehicles have stranded on a highway by serious subsidence triggered by rainstorms in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
The subsidence occurred at about 5:00 p.m. on Friday on nine kilometers of State Highway 318 that links Tibet with neighboring Sichuan Province, said sources with the traffic management arm of the People's Armed Police.
More than 10,000 cubic meters of the highway bed had sunk in the Mangkam county in eastern Tibet's Qamdo prefecture.
Repair work is expected to be finished in five days, said an armed police officer.
Police have built a temporary road beside the highway, on which stranded vehicles are directed to pass slowly.
Ping!
Yeah...I always check my car & ‘scooter tires for ‘serious subsidence’ before I start my trips.
This is a problem we can look forward to seeing with
their rail road to Tibet, building ia an awesome challenge
as we found out in the Rockies but maintaining the roadway
and associated bridges in all weathers is even greater.
It’s that darn cheap counterfeit dirt the contractors used. It’s hard to tell from the real thing, but it melts when it gets wet. I think the guy that was selling the cardboard pork is one of the guys making it. Counterfeit water does not seem to hurt it, though.
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