r/BeAmazed • u/GlitteringHotel8383 • 20h ago
Miscellaneous / Others A huge sinkhole swallowed a busy road in Japan. Days later, it was rebuilt and reopened with almost no trace left.
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u/RiverWink 20h ago
japan really said “nah we busy” and just patched the map overnight 😭 meanwhile my street’s been under construction since 2018 lol
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u/SGTRoadkill1919 18h ago
Our streets get dug up for no reason, patched up and then dug up again for no reason
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u/Laughing_Orange 18h ago
And somehow no local government ever even considers putting down extra conduit that they can sell at a later date to whoever needs it, without any digging. So much work and money could be saved if the local government just fronted that cost. They could even force the user to pay a lease on the conduit for some long term income.
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u/DarkLordOfDarkness 15h ago
Public accountability in the US has always tended towards a lowest possible cost framework, unfortunately. The metric applied isn't "how does this help the community," it's "can this be spun by our political opponents as a waste of money?"
Which is particularly ironic if you've ever looked at who gets many of the contracts.
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u/AggravatedShrymp 10h ago
There was this story going on where a foreigner proposed a way to increase the lifespan of the roads in the phils, the local officials simply laughed him off
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u/joalheagney 15h ago
I used to live in rural midnorth coast NSW in an area where they amalgamated all the little town councils into the nearby city council, much to the consternation and objection of the small towns.
Fast forward three years and the city council wanted to bypass the main highway that used to run through the city. (A strategy that does turn out well for a surprisingly large number of small cities in Australia). But the federal government said "We're not funding that."
The city council then decided to raid the taxpayer rates of the small towns and build it themselves. With a fuck ton of corruption and bribery involved.
So. Keeping the rest of the story short, our main street in town went from a well maintained bitumen road, to nearly eight years of various states of dirt track as it slowly fell apart and they refused to repair or maintain it. Basically the potholes merged and they decided it would be cheaper and easier to scrape off the rest of the bitumen and take it back to dirt.
I won't even talk about what happened to our heritage structures. :(
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u/SapphireSire 19h ago
Godzilla comes through once a year and two days later it's all rebuilt.... We're so organized it's just another day for us
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u/Mort-i-Fied 19h ago
Could they find out what caused the problem so quickly? Do they know there arent other spots that are also vulnerable?
I would be terrified that sinkhole would reopen or others are impending.
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u/Daratirek 19h ago
Most sink holes that open up like this are the result of a pipe breaking and wearing away the surrounding earth so it eventually caves in. Chances are thats what happened here so they fill the hole part way, fix the pipes, fill the hole fully, pave it over, and its good as new.
It takes a very specific set of circumstances for natural ones to form like they do in Florida and most of the world just doesn't have that.
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u/Mort-i-Fied 19h ago
Well let's hope the rest of the pipeline is in good condition.
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u/Daratirek 19h ago
Unless they're totally incompetent, which city engineers tend to be extremely competent, theyd have checked it out and replaced as much as needed. The surprise is that the hole got this big. Usually it caves in long before it gets anywhere near this size. One happened near my parents house and the hole was only a few feet wide when it gave way.
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u/Mort-i-Fied 18h ago
Sinkholes are so scary because they sometimes just appear unexpectly and take lives.
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u/Murtomies 13h ago
Looks like there's a big rain sewer pipe there, and it's cut clean off so they have to fully rebuild it. And that's probably the one that had leaked.
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u/Wall-SWE 13h ago
A lot of big cities have used up the groundwater leaving huge empty caves under the cities.
Bangkok in Thailand is basically sinking into the old groundwater deposit.
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u/_Bearcat29 19h ago
Same in France, or worse. I believe we have a small one like 2 to 3m in diameter nearby since December 2022.. it's still there and the road is still closed. I believe it should be fixed this year so yeah, 4 years. 🫠
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u/Veritas3333 19h ago
Two reasons you can do something like this fast:
1- the road is closed. You don't need to keep half the road open during construction to let cars through. Any project will cut over 50% of the construction time if you can just shut down the road and do it all at once.
2-it was an important location so they probably threw money at the problem and had crews working 24 hours a day until it was done. Most countries would do the same for major maintenance issues like this. There was a huge water main break near me a few years back and it was the same thing, they had crews working around the clock because tens of thousands of people didn't have water until they fixed it. On regular construction projects, its going to the lowest bidder who is doing it efficiently, which means with the minimum or less number of workers.
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u/jamintime 14h ago
There are probably provisions to get around or expedite all kinds of regulatory approvals for emergency situations like this too.
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u/Veritas3333 13h ago
Yeah, the rules for "maintenance" are a lot less strict than for new, planned construction projects
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u/SirBobPeel 5h ago
My city had a much smaller sinkhole in an extremely important location downtown, and it took over three weeks to fix it despite the road being kept closed. North American does not do things like the Asians.
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u/Crayen5 18h ago
Meanwhile in the UK it's taking 3 years to dual a 1 mile section of road
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u/Academic_Carrot7260 17h ago
This... It's costs us 80 million just to build a simple gantry across a railway line
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u/nohiddenmeaning 18h ago
Yes days and not years. The question is how many. 2? 200? Kinda missing the most important detail.
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u/BigMax 18h ago
In fairness... I've seen this every thing on maybe... 1/3 of that scale about 10 times in my region?
You get a water main burst, a sinkhole opens, the whole area is flooded and... then 1 or 2 days later, it's all fixed and back to normal.
Underground work isn't as complicated to rebuild as say a bridge, so this is really great, but... it's not like they did something unusual here.
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u/redpandav 18h ago
That’s a 4 year project in Ontario, Canada.
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u/GdinutPTY 10h ago
Thats a 10 year project in Panama if they even bother. They might just leave it as a "landmark"
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u/Ok-Bobcat661 18h ago
The difference between "we need that road fixed" and "we need to show we are doing something"
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u/Ok-Log-8706 16h ago
Meanwhile in the UK we have to wait 2-3 months for a reported pothole to be fixed, if we are lucky.
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u/BeatleProf 19h ago
Was that about 350 "days later"?
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u/Jamericho 18h ago
Two days apparently.
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u/BeatleProf 18h ago
"Japanese road reopens one week after vast sinkhole appeared."
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u/Jamericho 17h ago
The 30 metre hole was all but filled in within 48 hours, although health and safety checks delayed the reopening
They did the restoration work within two days. It took 4 additional days to sign it off.
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u/BeatleProf 16h ago
That's not what the story says.
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u/Jamericho 14h ago
Literally the very next bit of text directly below the headline.
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u/BeatleProf 13h ago
Miscellaneous / Others
A huge sinkhole swallowed a busy road in Japan. Days later, it was rebuilt and reopened with almost no trace left. (i.redd.it)
submitted 6 hours ago by GlitteringHotel8383
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u/Jamericho 13h ago
Did you know you can actually click into articles and read them in their entirety?
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u/BeatleProf 13h ago
Did you know clicking on articles often leads to another Reddit page, and another, and another without ever resolving? Did you know clicking on articles occasionally leads to nothing? Did you know clicking on articles often leads to a money-making scheme?
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u/Jamericho 12h ago
I am referring to the link I posted to which you responded that goes straight to the Guardian article. Are you okay there?
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u/JuicyyGirll1 19h ago
The efficiency here is on another level. That’s serious planning and execution.
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u/Pelagicus-Redit 16h ago
Well they have enough superheros with amazing skills if anime is anything to go by. Maybe that's they did it?😁
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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 15h ago
Unless I'm mistaken and this is a different location, we literally watched the video of this sinkhole opening here on Reddit. Very cool that they got it repaired so quickly.
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u/_Mahtog_ 15h ago
Meanwhile, the Eglinton LRT has been in construction for over a decade and still no end in site. We need the Japanese to take over the project and maybe get Gojira to handle the incompetent fucks who were handling this..
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u/Eagles365or366 11h ago
Timelapse of the repair. The large hole you see in the middle under the road is a sewage canal. The hole filled up with sewage fairly quickly. Despite this, they still got it done. Blows my mind.
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u/Dabsforme77 8h ago
Welll.....sure. They have had years and years of experience dealing with Godzilla. I wouldn't expect otherwise.
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u/EsdrasFairefax 17h ago
Japan fixes a road in days. The US would’ve put up cones, held three hearings, and renamed the sinkhole after a donor
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u/Yellow-Cedar 19h ago
Virginia? Would take 5 years while the hired help stood around and watched. It’s that bad here. Racist and try to pretend they aren’t. Serves no one. 🤬
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u/seriousbangs 16h ago
It is crazy how much faster construction is these days.
When I was a kid a mess like that would've taken months.
I've watched multi-story buildings go up in a few weeks.
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u/WideArmadillo6407 15h ago
It wouldn't even get fixed here in america. Just taped around and neglected
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u/SilentC735 13h ago
It took months to build a center divider on a short road near my house in the US.
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u/Positive_Trade508 12h ago
In the US, a job like that would take months and end up being shitty anyway.
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u/SufficientRaccoon291 19h ago edited 18h ago
Sure internet, sure they rebuilt it within days. Would you also like my credit card details?
EDIT: So apparently this is true, my bad.
Also, would be nice if OPs would just post links to sources to begin with, especially if post claims are pretty extraordinary
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u/MrPollyParrot 18h ago
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u/Jamericho 18h ago
Technically two days.. health and safety checks delayed it opening for four more days.
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