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**Newly Built Highway in India**
The villagers were thrilled when the government finally completed the new highway—smooth, wide, and long enough to rival the Great Wall of China (okay, maybe not that long). Everyone rushed out to take a drive on it, only to find a cow comfortably lounging in the middle of the road, treating the freshly paved highway like her own personal spa day. As cars came to a sudden halt, frustrated drivers began arguing whether cows had more right to the road than they did.
It turns out that no amount of government investment in infrastructure could outmatch a local cow’s determination to claim her territory. One guy even got out of his car to reason with her, complete with hand gestures and a passionate speech about road safety, while she flicked her tail lazily, oblivious to the chaos around her. The villagers are now considering changing the highway’s name to “Moo-vement Lane” as a tribute to their newfound queen of the road.
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This looks like some shit I’ll make in Cities Skyline.
P
This looks like those Hot Wheels race sets where the loser car crashes.
K
They drive on the left side of the road in India don’t they?
S
They drive all over the road
N
Naw. They drive as the crow flies. A crow with a broken wing. That’s dead.
H
It’s not dead, it’s pining for the fjords
T
If you ‘adn’t nailed ‘is feet to the perch, ‘ed be pushin’ up daisies by now.
L
That is a former parrot
K
When I was India, nobody called shotgun. Everyone wanted the back seat so they couldn’t see the chaos. People hanging onto trucks, buses; tuktuks weaving between cars; no signals; lanes were vague suggestions; and at night — holy nightmares Batman!!!
G
My first drive in India was late at night (very early morning). The taxi driver was blowing thru red lights like they didn’t exist. Not even looking around to see if a car was coming.
S
There isn’t enough Xanax in the world for that.
M
LOL you ever seen those videos from the UAE where all these guys are driving on 2 wheels (one side) like it’s nothing?
D
I did two tours in Iraq but I was never more terrified than when we had shore leave in the UAE and took an unlicensed cab. That man had a deathwish behind the wheel.
R
In every direction is an understatement and using not only cars , but rickshaws/tuktuks, wheel barrels, bicycles , cows , etc. and somehow it just works. Oh and constant non stop honking
W
…and off the side of the road.
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Yes. As a former British colony they drive on the wind side.
M
We drive wherever we can fit our vehicle lmao
A
Why reduce road congestion temporarily with a good design when you can reduce it permanently with a bad design?
B
r/shittyskylines
L
The very first image I saw on there looks identical to this photo. God I hope that’s just a coincidence.
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It is lol. The pic was originally posted 6 days ago.
L
Superb lmao
W
Most likely not a coincidence as the photos of this bridge is all over social media here lol.
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I saw it there first and wasn’t sure what they were referencing lol
A
India also has [a 90 degree turn railway bridge](https://www.vice.com/en/article/7-engineers-suspended-after-2-3-million-bridge-includes-bizarre-90-degree-turn/). That’s the most Cities Skyline thing I’ve ever seen in the real world.
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That must be the worst thing that’s ever happened in Bhopal
T
I would have added /s to understand your sarcasm. I don’t think everyone knows the Bhopal gas tragedy.
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More should. It’s only the worst industrial accident in human history. And those responsible only got fined $2000, sentenced to two years imprisonment and then immediately got released after the judgement.
H
Not many people are interested in the history of our world, too obsessed with themselves to care.
E
Respectfully, please fuck off. A lot of people barely have enough capacity to deal with all the shit happening in their own country right now, and it’s not due to self absorption or a lack of empathy or anything like that. Plenty of us care deeply but don’t have the emotional bandwidth to spare. It’s not for you to cast aspersions on their humanity.
T
Judging by the “civil engineer” from India who couldn’t do the basic math in my introductory Accounting class, this isn’t exactly shocking.
B
India is in a really interesting place right now as I understand it. Culturally, parents want their kids to be engineers, doctors, or lawyers. And parents can put a lot of pressure on their kids. Meanwhile, the country has been doing a lot to develop. There is a lot of nuance and depth but overall some moves have been very good. College is relatively very cheap compared to other countries and suddenly available to tons of people who never had access. So a lot of students sort of feel they don’t have a choice but to go to college, and also have a fairly narrow view of their options because of their parents and upbringing. Understandably a lot go for plan B and become engineers. In my experience, there are just as many brilliant engineers coming out of those schools as anywhere else but they are also flooded with a whole lot of people whose heart really isn’t in it and instead just got good enough at going through the motions to graduate and get a job. I feel for them, I imagine it is pretty unfulfilling. But it definitely can be a pain for us too when working with offshore or visa coworkers. Sort of lose/lose in my opinion but probably not going to change for a generation or two as their situation normalizes. Because they didn’t really do it on purpose, it’s just the side effect of something that should hopefully be good for the country long-term. ^(To be clear I love Indians and wish them the best. As an outside observer I just think it’s an interesting cultural trap they’ve accidentally created for themselves. Those are hardly unique to India and I don’t mean to cast stones, in fact I think understanding the situation makes me more empathetic and work better together, rather than just making broad assumptions or generalizations.)
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After reading that piece I am a little more sympathetic. They designed one with a better turn. It impinged on some land owned by the railway company. The railway said “fuck you, that’s my land” and rejected a bunch of compromises. I think the road designers threw in the towel, said, “fuck it, whatever” and built what they could, and were then scapegoated for being put in an impossible position.
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I mean, the engineers should still have had the sense to just tell the local government that the project was impossible and just scrap the project completely instead of wasting time and money building a bridge that’s completely unusable.
W
I’d bet the local government wasn’t willing to hear that in any way. They’re probably never going to experience the consequences that they should, either, because there’s no way this blindsided them. Edit- If local officials were somehow actually unaware of this, then they were grossly negligent.
C
That’s what made no sense to me. If they didn’t know, they weren’t doing their jobs. If they did know, then they should be the ones going under the bus, not just the engineers.
V
It’s a “damned if I do, damned if I don’t” situation.
J
How the fuck does that happen in a county that lives for STEM education?
H
Lots of cheating and folks who get degrees in any way possible while having zero actual interest in the field
N
Corruption, the contract is given to a blacklisted company. So government gave the contract to this company whom they themself blacklisted. Corruption is so normalised, people don’t care. Attitute towards corruption in mild ao these things keep happening.
C
They all don’t stay?
L
Maybe the people who actually get the good education leave for rich countries?
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Sim City 2000
K
YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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At least CS adds merge lanes automatically.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyskylines/s/3mbY1RcTpV
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“Lane Ends 5 feet”
D
“Lane ends… now” \*smashes into wall, flies off highway\*
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“If you can read this, the lane has ended”
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That is some hilarious looney tunes shit
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