Chinese expand road, fail to remove telephone pole
Scott Nazelrod
If you thought your local traffic-calming scheme was bad enough to
navigate, take a look at what Chinese drivers have to contend with.
A 40ft unmarked and unlit phone pylon is stranded in the middle of a
six-lane highway.
The pole used to be at the side of the road but when planning
authorities widened the road they didn’t think to move it.
A road arrow, less than 350ft away, directs drivers straight to it at
50mph, causing dozens of accidents.
Residents in Zhengzhou, central China, are learning to live with the
dangerous obstruction.
Local driver Chang Feng, 33, said: “We have complained to the council
but they say it would cost too much to bury the cables underground so
we are stuck with it.”
The offending pole belongs to the local power authorities, who blame
road planners for the problem.
A power authority spokesman said: “They should have informed us before
the road widening project, but none of us knew this. Now it’s too
expensive to move the pole.”
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The site I found this article on had a comment which said "So they
have PennDOT over there too, huh?"
elmer
> http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/140194/Driven-up-the-pole!/
>
> If you thought your local traffic-calming scheme was bad enough to
> navigate, take a look at what Chinese drivers have to contend with.
>
> A 40ft unmarked and unlit phone pylon is stranded in the middle of a
> six-lane highway.
>
> The pole used to be at the side of the road but when planning
>
> A road arrow, less than 350ft away, directs drivers straight to it at
> 50mph, causing dozens of accidents.
>
> Residents in Zhengzhou, central China, are learning to live with the
> dangerous obstruction.
>
> but they say it would cost too much to bury the cables underground so
>
> The offending pole belongs to the local power authorities, who blame
> road planners for the problem.
>
> the road widening project, but none of us knew this. Now it?s too
> expensive to move the pole.?
>
> ----
>
> The site I found this article on had a comment which said "So they
> have PennDOT over there too, huh?"
Nathan Perry
<088a56a3-125b-457c...@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
Scott Nazelrod <scot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/140194/Driven-up-the-pole!/
>
> If you thought your local traffic-calming scheme was bad enough to
> navigate, take a look at what Chinese drivers have to contend with.
>
> A 40ft unmarked and unlit phone pylon is stranded in the middle of a
> six-lane highway.
From what I've seen of Chinese roads and driving, this shouldn't be much
of a wrinkle in their style!
Michael Moroney
Also: http://failblog.org/2009/10/19/powerline-fail/
And, a section of MA 12 in Leominster MA has a series of power poles in
the (future) right lane SB, and they've been there about a year. The
electric co. has moved its stuff off them, but the phone company hasn't.
JG
The rubber flap over the headphone connector never stayed put on my
Mao-made cell phone. Stupid Japs outsourced the manufacturing to these
dorks.
Scott Nazelrod
And the drink holder is placed right in front of the climate controls
in my American-made car, making it impossible to access them when
using the drink holder. What's your point?
Michael Gronseth
The one drink holder in my car, assembled in Michigan, is in front of
the shifter. If the car is in park, the holder is pretty much
unusable. The other one is to the rear of the shifter, and always
accessible.
-Michael P. Gronseth
Wyoming, MI
Honorable Mention
Coming soon to American roads...when gumment is not accountable to
anyone, those kinds of things happen. Don't like it? You could go to
jail for complaining. Hit the light pole? Your fault, not theirs.
I've been noticing this kind of incompetence more and more here, just
not yet to this degree.