Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Wednesday, July 16, 2008


China's quest to build the biggest & tallest

...and ugliest....

Within days of its opening, the $1.76 billion Hangzhou Bay Bridge was becoming famous for an unexpected special feature: car accidents.

The special viewing platform built to the side of the six-lane bridge was nowhere near completion, leaving drivers with no space to pause. So many people were stopping to gawk at the much-vaunted engineering and causing so much mayhem that police began cracking down on dawdling drivers and enforcing a minimum speed of 50 mph.


That's okay; there's plenty of OIL where that came from.

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