A small miscalculation can be fatal if it accumulates throughout an entire chain of command. A deviation of centimeters can, for example, become a road that deviates several meters from its destination when tens of kilometers have been laid out.
These are things that can happen and what they can have dramatic results when someone, very far into the project, realizes what happened. They are small deviations, very small errors in calculations that designers, draftsmen and engineers try to correct throughout an entire project.
In the end, the possibility of someone screwing up is there and it is something that can happen. Of course, there are cases and cases. They are called “invisible errors”those that only appear when one is already involved in the work or has even finished it.
But what happened in the city of Aishbagh, an industrial area in northern India, does not quite fit the definition of “invisible errors.”
For example, the image that heads this article.
Seven engineers suspended and 2.3 million thrown in the trash
“Controversial.” This is how they define NDTV to the so-called “90 Degree Bridge”. A definition that, evidently, seems to fall too short for those who decided to suspend the seven engineers in charge of the project (two of them chief engineers) and investigate the companies involved.
The problem was as simple as the name is explicit. The Public Works Department (PWD) needed to erect a bridge to save some train tracks. Construction progressed and last year the opening day arrived. A festive moment if it weren’t for the fact that the bridge instantly became a meme.
And on one side, the curve was little more than a corner. A fold that evidently prevented two cars from circulating at the same time through this space and that could cause very serious accidents. In Tribune India explain that the bridge issue led Mohan Yadav, head of Madhya Pradesh, the region in which Aishbagh is located, to give explanations for X.
In them they indicated that they were committed to finding a solution to the bridge issue and that, evidently, it would be impassable until they found a way to repair the damage. Essential, of course, for a space that was intended to be key for the passage to either side of the tracks of up to 300,000 people, they explain in Vice.
Since then, the issue of the bridge has been on the table of the two main administrations involved, the one responsible for road traffic and the railways. A problem that has lasted a whole year and it was not until a few weeks ago when it was decided that the curve would be softened taking advantage of the fact that the path was going to be widened.
The most curious thing is that, explain our colleagues from Motorpasión Mexicothe bridge It does not have a 90º turn. This is the colloquial way of referring to the bizarre design. The bridge actually has a bend of 118º, as stated in a report that It also surprised in India.
A year later, the administrations have already agreed and the bridge should be being renovated. The companies in charge of its construction and design, which, as political leader Mohan Yadav explained, have been included on a blacklist, will not do so.
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