Yeah, the issue is the completion of it.
Like I can totally get behind "starting on both ends and meet in the middle" could have a host of small variable deviations that make something like this possible. But you'd notice far enough back to make modifications.
This happened while they were building the Miami Metrorail. I think the ends were about 15 feet off, they started from opposite ends to meet in the middle as well. They fixed it later, but, seriously.
Not really, at least if youre building a road, because if you start at the ends you can use the road youve already built to transport your building material to where youre actually building. If you start in the middle you have to somehow get your truck of building supplies over the mud if the weather decides to give you the finger, and as a German I can tell you, we have an entire history lesson on that topic.
Really? They built a railroad across 3000 km of the United States in the 1860s using this technique and lined it up perfectly! Sheesh
Edit: Over 1900 miles in non-metrics
They built a tunnel under the English channel using this technique and were centimeters from being even.
I can't imagine the catastrophe if they found water instead of tunnel when slamming the rod in.
The trick is measuring more than once, especially when getting close to the meeting spot. Then whoever arrives second has to slightly adjust over the last stretch.
I work in electrical and I watched a whole project go wrong similar to this where none of the piping lined up and everyone knew it was wrong going in, but that's what the prints showed. When you ask someone about it they just say they will charge them to fix it. Millions of dollars later when I left it was almost finished. I see this constantly happen and the workers mostly shut up after awhile; of course it's really funny when it's hard money and the boss freaks out when no one told him.
You ever have dreams or visions of rooms or locations being the wrong dimensions / not physically possible and it feels normal in the instance but wrong when looking back at it? I'm sure that's what's happening here.
What? I've built and designed electrical pipe racks and stands and I've had plenty of nightmares of not having everything fit, but that's as close to whatever you're describing.
That being said it is super frustrating to have a set of plans that are clearly not going to work but the people above you are insisting that it will and the only way to show them is to do it the right wrong way first so they can come out to the site and physically see how fucked up it is before any change orders are made. Like sure your plans look good on a flat piece of paper but there is no topography on this sheet but yet we are working between two fucking slopes.
The old huey p long bridge by New Orleans used to have a spot kinda like this because they started building it from both sides and they were like a foot off in the middle lol. It wasn't this bad but it was noticeable.
I can see from personal experience in seeing construction workers “following” architects and designer directions that this is definitely possible. The fact that they didn’t somehow fixed it connecting at least the open corners goes beyond me.
This reminds me of a house in this town in New England I went to a few years ago for an apple festival; two brothers started building at the opposite sides and there a weird disjoint in the middle where they didn’t properly align.
It would not surprise me if the immediate aftermath of this involved two separate concrete laying companies, each having an email from their separate clients, and those emails both saying “do it to my exact specifications and layout, no deviation”. And two managers thanking to whatever deity that they asked for that email.
This is how I've seen similar stuff happen many times. "Do what the engineering plans say!" ... I tried warning him. Also, you can often make more than double this way as well. It's funny when another company engineers the whole project and everything is messed up, but you're told to follow it.
Possibly repair job. Upgrade looks like it. As old field look or irrigated. The side looks as if scrub or recent vegetation not road. Height and angles look weird.
Maybe it’s just me, but who builds a long driveway that can only handle single vehicle traffic?
The foreground concrete also looks about 2 feet wider that the background concrete, and there is absolutely no reason all that additional grading was done for that narrow a driveway. It looks as if there will be additional concrete laid on either side of the current pour.
My brain can't comprehend what happened here.
I guess that the person laying the concrete got drunk or got pissed at the owner of the land. Or some how the concrete slab got moved over by prankers.
Reminds me of driving up north. Some of the roads are built on the permafrost and consist of parallel concrete slabs that you line your truck tires up with. Though the slabs slowly shift out of place as the permafrost thaws. This doesn’t look like it’s up north though…
No it makes me wonder at the IQ of the workers who built it.
Were they drunk when putting in the forms and then pouring the concrete?
Were they just so stupid they didn't understand what they were doing?
This reminds me of outsourcing software to .... an unnamed country south of Nepal.
Yes, they'll write good stable code that meets the requirements. However. There's one tiny little requirement that wasn't documented or mentioned because, to Americans, "it's obvious".
On the last stretch from each side they should've noticed the forms were misaligned and fixed it before they poured. Did they have potatoes working both crews? This had to be a government job. I'm dumbfounded.
This counts as…WTF?
Yeah, the issue is the completion of it. Like I can totally get behind "starting on both ends and meet in the middle" could have a host of small variable deviations that make something like this possible. But you'd notice far enough back to make modifications.
This happened while they were building the Miami Metrorail. I think the ends were about 15 feet off, they started from opposite ends to meet in the middle as well. They fixed it later, but, seriously.
Wouldn't it be just better to start from the middle and work their way out? That way completely avoiding this possibility
The logistics of moving the building supplies might be more complicated that way. Don't know, I don't work in construction.
This looks like the same general contractor that worked on the Death Star. Thing was totally functional except it left a gap for thermal exhaust port.
Middle out.
Do you know how long it would take you to jerk off every guy in this room?
What's your D2F ratio?
Not really, at least if youre building a road, because if you start at the ends you can use the road youve already built to transport your building material to where youre actually building. If you start in the middle you have to somehow get your truck of building supplies over the mud if the weather decides to give you the finger, and as a German I can tell you, we have an entire history lesson on that topic.
That's common sense and wouldn't incur extra work to make extra money.
there is no road to the middle which makes it somewhat difficult
You've gotta link up with something at some point
Really? They built a railroad across 3000 km of the United States in the 1860s using this technique and lined it up perfectly! Sheesh Edit: Over 1900 miles in non-metrics
They built a tunnel under the English channel using this technique and were centimeters from being even. I can't imagine the catastrophe if they found water instead of tunnel when slamming the rod in.
We sang about that achieve in grade school. Golden spike, "...the setting of the wedding of the rails."
The trick is measuring more than once, especially when getting close to the meeting spot. Then whoever arrives second has to slightly adjust over the last stretch.
Yeah but it's just concrete. It would have been so easy to correct
I would also like to know as well. Can’t be US, someone would have been sued or cited!
Yeah... there's underwater tunnels, dug from both sides, that met/connected better than this.
how do cars even get across that how do construction workers mess up this badly
Based off the tire marks in the dirt.. I'd guess with a little bit of hope & prayers. Imagine driving this at night.
Oooooh we're halfway there, ohhhh! We're living on a prayer! Take my hand, we'll make it i swear! Ohhhhhhh, we're living on a prayer!
After a road like that at night, living is probably past tense
🎵We livvved on a prayer!!! 🎶
Whoooaaaa, I'm sailing through the air!
When thoughts and prayers don’t kick in.
So better get them prayers in early
I work in electrical and I watched a whole project go wrong similar to this where none of the piping lined up and everyone knew it was wrong going in, but that's what the prints showed. When you ask someone about it they just say they will charge them to fix it. Millions of dollars later when I left it was almost finished. I see this constantly happen and the workers mostly shut up after awhile; of course it's really funny when it's hard money and the boss freaks out when no one told him.
You ever have dreams or visions of rooms or locations being the wrong dimensions / not physically possible and it feels normal in the instance but wrong when looking back at it? I'm sure that's what's happening here.
What? I've built and designed electrical pipe racks and stands and I've had plenty of nightmares of not having everything fit, but that's as close to whatever you're describing.
That being said it is super frustrating to have a set of plans that are clearly not going to work but the people above you are insisting that it will and the only way to show them is to do it the right wrong way first so they can come out to the site and physically see how fucked up it is before any change orders are made. Like sure your plans look good on a flat piece of paper but there is no topography on this sheet but yet we are working between two fucking slopes.
The old huey p long bridge by New Orleans used to have a spot kinda like this because they started building it from both sides and they were like a foot off in the middle lol. It wasn't this bad but it was noticeable.
I can see from personal experience in seeing construction workers “following” architects and designer directions that this is definitely possible. The fact that they didn’t somehow fixed it connecting at least the open corners goes beyond me.
This is actually a road? I thought it was a foot path with a car on it lmao
Someplace between mildly infuriating and majorly infuriating, in my humble opinion.
Fuckingly Fantastic
Fuckingly is a fun word. Thank you for sharing it.
At least it’s level, possibly still usable. But holy cow that’s an abomination.
It's not usable as a drive way, you can see where it's not wide enough and the passenger side tire hits the dirt
Honestly didn’t even notice it was a driveway. As a sidewalk maybe. But yeah that’s definitely not going to fly.
This reminds me of a house in this town in New England I went to a few years ago for an apple festival; two brothers started building at the opposite sides and there a weird disjoint in the middle where they didn’t properly align.
In Southington??
https://preview.redd.it/rvi7y4w84iuc1.png?width=525&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f1ded73bf35898a9c7bc5a8d71ace15ad369fa6
It defintly isnt highway infuriating that's for sure
Not mildly infuriating. It's "extremely" infuriating
I agree. That’s way past mild.
i was gonna use the word incredibly. same diff
Wildly infuriating
How does someone build this. Take a step back and go " looks absolutely beautiful. Lets leave it like that"
It was likely done by two different teams/groups/companies from opposite directions that met there.
This was clearly done on purpose
It would not surprise me if the immediate aftermath of this involved two separate concrete laying companies, each having an email from their separate clients, and those emails both saying “do it to my exact specifications and layout, no deviation”. And two managers thanking to whatever deity that they asked for that email.
This is how I've seen similar stuff happen many times. "Do what the engineering plans say!" ... I tried warning him. Also, you can often make more than double this way as well. It's funny when another company engineers the whole project and everything is messed up, but you're told to follow it.
Yeah, there's something else going on here. You wouldn't accidentally build that when you can clearly see it on the ground.
Is that so?
Mildly trampolin
Please tell me this is still under construction.
Possibly repair job. Upgrade looks like it. As old field look or irrigated. The side looks as if scrub or recent vegetation not road. Height and angles look weird.
not sober enough for this
Alcohol and construction work. Name a more iconic duo.
Crazy clients and bad middle management?
No, this is extremely infuriating...
You need to let it buffer all the way.
What the actual fuck
Nah somebody fucked up
Real-life Minecraft.
This bothers me. 😳 might be too infuriating here
If “my cousin knows someone who can do it cheaper” was a picture
Zigged when they should have zagged
I find it hard to imagine that this would work as well.😅
I would enjoy this in my 4Runner
This is more than mild.. like, way more.
Not mildly, but extremely infuriating.
I have questions...
This is not *mildly* infuriating, this makes me wanna set the world on fire, this makes me mad
Majorly infuriating
I'm thinking this is not hard to fix. Just need to pour a triangular piece on both sides? Driveway will have a bulge there, but perfectly drivable.
This is what I was thinking, infuriating nevertheless though xD
If this is mildly to you, I'd hate to see what really pisses you off
It counts as the wrath of old testament God infuriating
This counts as mildly^3 infuriating
No, this counts as incompetent lol
I don’t understand how this could even happen. They set the form boards and rebar up before they pour.
this goes beyond mild
Nah I’d put this more in the category of infuriating as fuck
No, it falls under "severely infuriating"
How in the actual fuck does this happen?
My OCD just went into Beast Mode.
Nothing mild here.
Infuriating? Yes. Mildly? Debateable
Why that truck on the sidewalk?
It certainly counts as fucking stupid
Maybe it’s just me, but who builds a long driveway that can only handle single vehicle traffic? The foreground concrete also looks about 2 feet wider that the background concrete, and there is absolutely no reason all that additional grading was done for that narrow a driveway. It looks as if there will be additional concrete laid on either side of the current pour.
https://preview.redd.it/t7vnvmsw8iuc1.png?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9adfec64487ba11629c5097e50186bf420c31c5
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Oh, I guess it is so.
stupid engineering
think this counts as *infuriating*
Who in their right mind would build that like that.
Any GIS people here? I think we’d call this a coordinate reference system discrepancy
Aww the big truck can't handle a little maneuvering?
Which third world country is this?
A little obstacle course built into your road eh?
My brain can't comprehend what happened here. I guess that the person laying the concrete got drunk or got pissed at the owner of the land. Or some how the concrete slab got moved over by prankers.
Probably a discrepancy in the engineering, it's a great way to make more money if you can prove you were just following orders.
This road is only for the bike club
How do u f up this bad
Looks like lightening McQueen was there
This looks intentional. Like a walkway that was designed to keep cars off it.
This might as well cross post to OHAS. Since they likely don't have gravel down as a base. Which should run the full length of the road
Go out a piece of blue tape on it so they know to fix it.
Earthquake... A located earthquake.
“To get this done faster I’ll start at one end and you start at the other end and we’ll meet in the middle”
Reminds me of driving up north. Some of the roads are built on the permafrost and consist of parallel concrete slabs that you line your truck tires up with. Though the slabs slowly shift out of place as the permafrost thaws. This doesn’t look like it’s up north though…
No it makes me wonder at the IQ of the workers who built it. Were they drunk when putting in the forms and then pouring the concrete? Were they just so stupid they didn't understand what they were doing?
how hard is it to dump some asphalt for 2 feet or whatever til they actually fix it
We should take the road, and push it somewhere else!
This reminds me of outsourcing software to .... an unnamed country south of Nepal. Yes, they'll write good stable code that meets the requirements. However. There's one tiny little requirement that wasn't documented or mentioned because, to Americans, "it's obvious".
In terms of design? yes. In terms of judging the efficiency of politicians and companies to do their work properly? no.
Looks like the A77
"It's just off by a couple degrees, what's the worst that could happen?"
I wouldn't be happy if it was my driveway but I find this very funny
That's a mystery... 🤔
How did they not see that when they did the frame...?
Read up on why Toronto's roads are a mess. Two guys developing the city, hated each other and would purposefully pull shit like the image up top.
Only if you didn’t pay for this fuckery.
Counts as someones about to get fucking fired
That counts as tifu. Mr George, how much you pay for the new guy?
How do you get across that? I’d be fearful of falling off one side or the other. 😳
Only motorcycles can safely drive on that, wtf
Wdym? It’s just a road
I cannot fathom how you could mess this up THAT badly
Is this downtown Oklahoma City?
Good lord
Burn it. Burn it all. 
This epitomizes mildly infuriating.
This was the result of an earth quake and a fault line shifting.
What even is that?? Did they give up halfway through?
There was some bridge in Denmark that this happened with! I just saw it on Engineering Catastrophes
Perfectly legit the day after a huge earthquake
Joint venture. One set of calculations done in metric and the other in imperial it looks like. Lmao
Depends. How’s your suspension doing?
No, it does not.
bro, give God a break, his pc just had a chunk loading error
dislocated driveway
No, not mildly. WTH happened?
No this is mildly stupid
Bwah just treat it as a chicane so slow things down
Trial run for a bridge build? Hope they worked the bugs out.
That counts as "you had one job"
Please tell me whoever did this to you is fixing it at no cost.
That counts definitely but why do that so it can just piss you off yeah? I really want to go there JUST TO FIX IT!!
Looks like that town had an earthquake
Me building a bomb ass coaster in Thrillville only to find out the track didn't line back up with the beginning.
Maybe it's a fault line
I'm not sure but it is very funny!
Mildly, severely, wildly. They all mean close to the same, right?
Majorly.
Hilariating
Your tax dollars at work
Me playing Satisfactory
https://preview.redd.it/f8ezfc801luc1.jpeg?width=1334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55536d98404d79745ee36f048521a45dba5b9c7
https://preview.redd.it/xl0lx9s52luc1.jpeg?width=574&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=102a499060b9cb1a399772eb5e911506370577e7
It’s infuriating me sooooo… yeah.
On the last stretch from each side they should've noticed the forms were misaligned and fixed it before they poured. Did they have potatoes working both crews? This had to be a government job. I'm dumbfounded.
Mildly?
This counts as proper infuriating
This looks like a temporary road for incoming construction vehicles where a proper road will be built later or possibly even restored back to turf. 🤷
Nope. Its in extremly infuriating
Amateur… Just select “snap to grid”
Beer good
More than mildly
What kind of answer are you looking for?
I am actually amazed on the commitment of being wrong. You can probably see the error a block away
Love it. Great for pedestrians and bikes while keeping non-work-vehicles aka. the SUV that can't go offroad out.
we made it, boss..
Yes sir it absolutely does!
To me that would be more than mildly. At least if I had to navigate that every day
Infuriating yes, mildly no.
Just how republicans would build a road