The public sentiment regarding the inauguration of the Chenab Railway Bridge and USBRL project by PM Modi is generally positive, highlighting national pride in India's engineering achievements and PM Modi's leadership. There is admiration for the bridge as a significant infrastructure milestone. However, there are undercurrents of skepticism, with some commenters expressing concerns about corruption, government inefficiencies, and logistical shortcomings compared to global standards.

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All these projects are schemes to give money to private contractors who will kickback some of it.

ChepaukPitch

When we buy anything, we get a warranty. Why don't we get the same for government contracts ?

SpecificRound1

I honestly feel we don't have good quality civil engineers left..
Since early 2000s, Mechanical, Electrical and civil engineering was considered not so sexy...Most bright brands went to IT and CS.

And out of the three I mentioned, Civil was the least preferred ..

I think we just don't have good Civil engineers...It is beyond corruption...I mean even with corruption, you can still do good work...which was the case of earlier projects 

Now there is corruption and bad teams at work...hence this result.

Globe-trekker

GandaBerunda_09

That's the new system to clean trains 🤣

Mr_We1rd0

Impose 15 lakh fine on the builder and give public statement that Railway is inquiring into the incident.
Done !

Oh I got an Income Tax query asking for clarification of the 23 rupees difference in taxable income. Pathetic.

Lazy-Gelada

Ok-Working757

Breaking: ₹413 crore spent to gift Hyderabad its newest tourist attraction—Cherlapally Jal Vihar. Took 4 years, ribbon-cut by PM, and defeated in 4 minutes by rain. India doesn’t need enemies when we scam ourselves this hard. Project Utkrisht be like: ‘At least I do my job.’

iloveneoni_so-much5

this post surprisingly does not have as many upvotes as the other 'inaugurated by PM Modi' posts posted around the same time. Surprisingly.

Money-Machine-5296

suh_dud-007

LandCrazyM

In these projects, The cost is not of raw material or design or manual labour or effectiveness of the infrastructure. It is of the contractors and the officials + ministers who have to sit in biting cold AC rooms during hot summers and do the hard work of ensuring things are done.

didgeridonts

brought cherrapunji in cherlapally, contractor wants to give tourist experience

Wonderful_Potato_995

This is not a lack of engineering skills. This is simply because more than 90% of the money allotted is simply consumed in corruption and is never used in the project. Politicians and administrators have become billionaires in this country.

worldcrawler

Guys just chill , it actually an automated cleaning system [advance technology].
*only us modiFANS can understand this.

Dr_Doofenshmirtz25

Nice free shower while waiting for the train. Incredible India truly 😤

olmytgawd

Why are you making fun of the highly advanced Automatic Washing and Cleaning System? Do you hate development? /s

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That's pretty cool! Cherlapally Railway Station sounds like a big deal. Must be awesome to see such a huge project finally up and running! 🚄

yzzqwd

Oh, it was a brilliant move by Congress and Nehru because obviously, the best place for a train station is right under a waterfall.

Adventurous_Moment93

I have been there 2 times(old one). It was scary tbh

ZealousidealEarth921

Is 100 km/h really a 'high speed' in global context?

SCM_2021

Looks like they put the most random collection of coaches they could find. Never seen ICF and LHB coaches on the same train.

RIKIPONDI

Source- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCWXixrpkSw/?igsh=MWgyMmRoZ3VzeGZ2eQ==

AfterSomeTime

That type of fleets government's should be prompting

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Hope the tourism department makes a Glass Bridge and a Bungee Jumping spot attached to this.

churuli_thankan

That's pretty damn cool, but that looks really expensive.

jshultz5259

While the cost for something like this would be pretty high, think it would be a great investment. Doesn't inhibit traffic, might reduce accidents from people trying to merge recklessly, as well as protect workers from some of the harsher elements.

HintonBE

How does this work with curves in the road?

improvor

Imagine living in a country where municipal maintenance is considerate of the people who are the entire reason for municipality in the first place.

Sledgecrowbar

meanwhile their un-surfaced road looks like our surfaced roads here in the UK lol

CMDR_omnicognate

resjudicata2

In the U.S. we put out orange cones for years to avoid repair, then raise tolls to buy more orange cones.

NOGOODGASHOLE

I can imagine that here in Germany there are like 1 oder more stupid regulations which is the reason why we don't use such a thing.

Noname_FTW

never seen that in my 36years of living in switzerland 😅

TwoBaze

Not to mention road crews working in shaded conditions!

e4evie

Without a joke. Once during a college workshop our job was to invent a product that would probably not exist. The idea of this task was to learn how to sell and promote an object. The object that I came up with was "pop-up bridge" and was the exact same thought of these bridges. My idea was thought as not realistical but I still got a good grade for my presentation.

Sythrin

Damn, even Switzerland's asphalt laying equipment looks clean.

Bobmanbob1

That's cool, but I'd imagine setting up that mobile overpass bridge takes just about as much time as completing the road work.

Not going to lie though- Europe seems to have a lot of good road work systems, transit construction methods and practices. 

Wish the U.S would pick up a few tips. . .

TernionDragon

Wow I am amazed, I love that it protects the workers safety, gives them shade and shelter from the rain possibly.

LeicesterLiberal

Just-a-lil-sion

struggleLOLL

This seems exactly like something I would have come up with as a kid, only to be laughed at by my dad.

crackeddryice

Meanwhile it'd take 16 months to set up the overpass here lmao

racdicoon

If they were gonna use that in Australia with all the increases in ‘road works’ they’d need to cover 75% of the road.

Infamous_Network6641

This is what happens when a government invests back into their infrastructure. Imagine at the United States invested back into the United States instead of giving our money away to other countries.

boopboppuddinpop

I’m sure it pays for itself with efficiency of job completion time. Here in the USA we average 1 mile per year on road construction

Majestic-Pickle5097

BearKuda

hellpipe1337

Liseuuuu

I live in Canada and I really wish we'd do less things the American way and more so, pretty much every other way.

Uninvited_Goose

I live in Switzerland, never seen this shit, always just redirections and construction fucking everywhere i can see, this does look like Switzerland though, so i guess its just rare

D3strukt0r

Shouldn't this literally be in r/nextfuckinglevel?

Cheaper_than_cheap

God the US is so far behind it’s not even funny

Absurd_Uncertainty

Around here we just decide to put up with a 2 hour backup instead.  Peak efficiency

zimurg13

Construction companies with too many contracts should be forced to use these. Like if you have more than x amount of contracts, you need one of these at one of the sites contantly rotating as the work is completed

Psychl0n

Jwit9919

Fantastic-Platform73

In the Netherlands we do it overnight in stretches. Because so many stretches of road have matrix signs overhead it’s easier to warn drivers and to inform them. Then we also have the giant arrow signs if the decide to do one lane at a time. Works very efficiently and like magic. There have been many times where I drove over a stretch of new asphalt that was old the day before!

SpeedyK2003

117tillweoverdose

Fuckers really have everything, don't they.

Sprogdoc

Switzerland roads, especially those in cities, are quite narrow (usually 1 lane per way on 2 way road) and going throug hilly or mountainous terrain. I imagine they cannot just divert traffic to parallel nearby road or temporarily make 2-way by 2-3 lanes in each way road to be a 2-way by 1 lane road in each way. Therefore, this seams like a great solution to a problem in such conditions.

pera001

the jealousy on reddit whenever switzerland gets mentioned is sad

SaltySolomon9

it is a old concept, austria use it on the A23 since 1999

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-over](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-over)

Knuddelbearli

I’ve been using it since last year. It’s really amazing

homebridgeenthusiast

Wouldn't they have to close the road to put the bridge thingies in place?

RoverandFido

The bridge has increased its normal load capacity by at least three times. I can't imagine that this is good for the bridge.

Milling and paving in an enclosed space? Triple cancer multiplier

Crunchiestriffs

That is needed here since they do the roads so often.

Pinku_Dva

The Swiss just love rubbing their superiority in the rest of the world's faces.

gulogulo1970

Einzelteter

In Japan, road work is only done at night in major cities.

Right-Ad2176

I guess this mobile bridges have some sort of a lifetime. I don't think that we can finish roadworks in Germany before this mobile bridge failed to work properly. It takes so long that sometimes I understand why it took 623 years to finish Cologne Cathedral and why it's always under construction since it was finished.

sakallicelal

if they only put half of the effort given to road infrastructure towards public transportation, we’d have super fast trains connecting all the major european cities

i hate this timeline

ar3s3ru

How long did they have to stop traffic to put it in place? xD

Nero1297

Damn, thats something i have never thought about. Looks like a good plan but would get really costly with distance

So how does that bridge move around and how long does it take to assemble and deploy

Foreign-Teach5870

How long does it take to assemble this thing keeping the transit stopped?

Definitely great idea. But i live in the US and our government doesn't put money into our infrastructure unless it's either too late or absolutely necessary. They only put money into their pockets

drin8680

I wonder how much disruption it causes to set up and take down this ramp - it looks so substantial that I reckon it's probably a day each side unless you're doing a big resurfacing job along a very long stretch of motorway that allows you to set it up once at each side and then move it with the work. Even then you'd need to stop the flow of traffic to move it...

MainliningSkittles

Probably have to stop traffic to install and uninstall this massive overpass.  I wonder how long that takes.

It must be specifically for highways that will move down the long road over the course of weeks for it to be worth the trouble.

tidder112

No no no! Fuck! Switzerland, you're doing it all wrong! You gotta reduce traffic to 1 lane for the 6 months and make sure everyone drives at the speed of sleep. Ugh! You'll never be cruel and efficient as America with all this progressive woke traffic. /s

EvilMoSauron

I swear Switzerland is one of the few countries with common sense

SirLemonThe3rd

Meanwhile, on I-fucking-5 I just north of Seattle….

Aye_Engineer

But they will have to reduce the traffic to 1 lane anyways just to set up and tear down the bridge.

ItalicisedScreaming

whinsk

America is a third world country. We are so far behind the civilized world when it comes to maintaining infrastructure and creating ways to get shit done without inconveniencing the masses.

dsaiken

That’s brilliant. I wish we had that here instead of shutting down the motorway and redirecting traffic through the streets with all of the traffic lights.

call_of_the_while

engineering like this always fascinates me, how do you even begin to calculate how much weight the legs of the overpass will bear?

everyusernamewashad

The type of things societies can do when not wasting money on destruction and murder...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the Chenab Railway Bridge, the world's highest railway arch bridge, marking a significant milestone in India's infrastructure development. This forms part of the 272-km Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line (USBRL) project, which aims to improve connectivity and support economic growth in the Kashmir Valley.

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