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Japan fixes massive sink hole in only a few days
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Depends on the province. If Quebec, they would hire 5 full time government employees to debate the cost of fixing it for 5 years.
Then you'd have the contractors use three times as many people and three times as much time than is actually needed to get it done.
10% work, 90% standing around drinking coffee.
HammerOfThor
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Probably taking some of that filler from Naruto.
crazy monkey
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couldn't just you or some one pick it up and put it in garbage?
MatrixMan.EXE
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Even that's generous.
CrispyBoar
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Now why can't other countries & regions be such hard workers like Japan can? 
Wyndstryker
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Given how many times giant monsters battle in their cities with absolutely zero casualties and massive collateral damage, only to have everything rebuilt by the next episodes. This few days business is actually slow.
LoveCake
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Here in the UK they would spend a few days taking photographs of it, no I lie, a few weeks, it would take a year and a day at least to fix that here.
I often think of this when it comes to cars in Japan, Tokyo's attitude to cars - Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld
I often think of this when it comes to cars in Japan, Tokyo's attitude to cars - Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld
Tea and Toast
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Apart from reconnecting the electricity and
water etc, they just filled it with concrete?
I know no nothing about construction but that
doesn't sound like it should work.
water etc, they just filled it with concrete?
I know no nothing about construction but that
doesn't sound like it should work.
brianjones
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Reminds me of
lmao
Yeah, I'm wondering if what they did to fix it so quickly is structurally sound. If the filling material they've used shifts and cracks that sewage pipe, it'll probably happen all over again.
Reminds me of
It's been ages since I've seen this one. Watched the 1st and 2nd a few months back
Here's a nice timelapse video of the repair:
https://twitter.com/Kashaverak/status/798328343833677824?s=09
https://twitter.com/Kashaverak/status/798328343833677824?s=09
as someone else already pointed out, this isn't a specific skill but rather a sort of mindset, based on deeply ingrained values. Sadly not something people who got socialised in a different place can easily adopt, if at all. It has nothing to do with buzz words like "collectivist" though.
It's simply a combination of proper planing and following through. Most sociologists who wrote about it usually refereed to that specific "trait" as "the proper way of doing things" (shikata in japanese). It's great for production of goods and things like that. Basically it's good for everything you can plan out, but it's absolutely terrible for things that require on the fly thinking and improvisation - one of the reasons why japanese firms are rather inefficient when it comes to non-production and non-service industries.
see:
yeah... that almost never happened *cough* 80s *cough* reagan *cough* twice -_- *cough*
Amazing work indeed but no one should get a day off after that madness. It was a state of emergency so all hands on deck before the situation worsened. Now the hole is plugged and sealed (until they go digging underneath again), everyone can go relax.
Hope no worker was hurt.
No, they used liquefied soil stabilization method which usually used to stabilize foundation. That is the only method to ensure stability and time-effectiveness.
(I'm assuming it costed them more than just filling with concrete, which may be cheaper but requires time to settle).
My local train station is supposed to be getting an upgrade that basically just adds an enclosed building the size of perhaps two school-buses end to end. They had the signs up showing the plans over five years ago. I think they started actually working on it about a year ago. All they've done so far is totally screw up the parking lot on the inbound side, and have a couple of pilings driven into the ground next to the tracks. Can't imagine them getting it all done within the next two years.
Valkerionseven
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That night they began draining and filling it. If it were anywhere else like gaffers said, that hole would have been there for months.
Shit though, in my town they have been tearing down this old abandoned hospital for literally a year. The building itself has been down for months but they have been tearing out the foundations for it for a solid 5+ months (this is Japan by the way.) In the mean time two lots have been cleared on our street, a 10+ story bank has been built and opened, and now another new 10+ level building is almost finished.
Guess it depends whos in charge/priority.
Shit though, in my town they have been tearing down this old abandoned hospital for literally a year. The building itself has been down for months but they have been tearing out the foundations for it for a solid 5+ months (this is Japan by the way.) In the mean time two lots have been cleared on our street, a 10+ story bank has been built and opened, and now another new 10+ level building is almost finished.
Guess it depends whos in charge/priority.
Imperfected
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Industrialized shame.
They don't like you
Imperfected
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I mean, if they're just Yakuza, that's fine. The Yakuza are mostly above-board these days, anyway.
https://twitter.com/Kashaverak/status/798328343833677824
Someone shrunk the whole process to 100 seconds.
Someone shrunk the whole process to 100 seconds.
PdotMichael
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3 shift operation in the middle of the city. Isn't something you can do in other countries. People would complain about noise, dirt and traffic instantly.
Dhruv_hanom
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CadetMahoney
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underrated post.
Damn, really working non-stop
PHOENIXZERO
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It took a month to complete a resurfacing of a mile long stretch of road in front of my place. Hell, it's been almost six months since reconstruction started on a six mile stretch of highway that goes through my small town and that's not due to finish until the end of the month or early December.
man our elevator at work has been out for months.
Japan seems like a nice place to live. I always hear nothing but great things (a small few bad things). Seems like the Government really cares for you.
Is there a part of Japan that has similar year around weather to San Francisco?
Japan seems like a nice place to live. I always hear nothing but great things (a small few bad things). Seems like the Government really cares for you.
Is there a part of Japan that has similar year around weather to San Francisco?
Portugeezer
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They would still be in the planning phases in London. Then they go on strike before commencing the work.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
This would literally take years to fix in New York City. Not even kidding.
Strangely, though, the road building and fixing efficiency in Central Florida (Orange County) is absurdly fast. I've seen an entire massive highway get extended 10 exits in less than a year, complete with large overpasses and long exit ramps.
That same kind of project is taking 7 years in NYC. LOL.
There always seems to be construction going on in Japan, when I was there I saw construction workers out in the streets almost every day just in the short stretch between my apartment and my school. Seems like they're constantly looking for things to maintain, so it's no surprise they jump on a bigger project like this quickly.
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