[India] Kolkata flyover collapse

[J--M--B]

On India Today with picture

Kolkata flyover collapse LIVE: Tragedy an act of god, says builder

An under-construction bridge collapsed near the famous Ganesh Talkies in north Kolkata's Girish Park area today. 150 people are feared to be trapped under the debris in the busy neighbourhood.

[A303Paul]

On India Today with picture

Kolkata flyover collapse LIVE: Tragedy an act of god, says builder

An under-construction bridge collapsed near the famous Ganesh Talkies in north Kolkata's Girish Park area today. 150 people are feared to be trapped under the debris in the busy neighbourhood.

Well the builder would say that, wouldnt he!

[RichardA35]

Since the Bragg report into the Loddon collapse we have been reasonably free from major incident. The TWC role has been taken very seriously on all projects that I have worked on and we should be thankful for a relatively mature industry in the UK in this area.

[paully]

Who thought building this in the first instance was a good idea? Look how close the flyover is to the buildings! That'd be like running an elevated motorway along Oxford Street in London.

[A303Paul]

Who thought building this in the first instance was a good idea? Look how close the flyover is to the buildings! That'd be like running an elevated motorway along Oxford Street in London.

Like this? or this?

The Kolkata example looks a bit extreme,but chicago did much the same with their overhead metro railway a century ago.

[roadtester]

Who thought building this in the first instance was a good idea? Look how close the flyover is to the buildings! That'd be like running an elevated motorway along Oxford Street in London.

Like this? or this?

The Kolkata example looks a bit extreme,but chicago did much the same with their overhead metro railway a century ago.

Fair point but from the pictures I've seen, the Kolkota one seems quite a bit more extreme in terms of how close it is to the adjacent buildings.

[jgharston]

Who thought building this in the first instance was a good idea? Look how close the flyover is to the buildings! That'd be like running an elevated motorway along Oxford Street in London.

Like this? or this?

I used to work here, more or less in the centre of the picture.

[A303Paul]

Who thought building this in the first instance was a good idea? Look how close the flyover is to the buildings! That'd be like running an elevated motorway along Oxford Street in London.

Like this? or this?

I used to work here, more or less in the centre of the picture.

I thought that was Croydon until I saw the chinese script and realised there was one too many lanes for Croydon flyover

Compare here and here

[firefly]

Who thought building this in the first instance was a good idea? Look how close the flyover is to the buildings! That'd be like running an elevated motorway along Oxford Street in London.

That was my thought as well. It is sad to see that some parts of the world still sacrifice the integrity of a well-established urban area to the excessive space-demand of the motorised road-traffic.

[bothar]

Another bridge collapse in Kolkata

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ns-injured