a shameful waste of madhouse time

Well, no one knows, just yet. There are no official answers, but from what i’ve been able to cull from the internet, there were several factors. Some people have said that the tubes used to prop the tunnel up were of inferior quality. Others have said the collapsed site was near a heavily trafficked road, upon which there had appeared cracks and little pits weeks earlier. There was also, mentioned in some other article whose links i’ve lost now, the issue of how the route was changed, and how the project was hastened by a whole year, which perhaps lead people cutting corners or making less than sound decisions. If, as mentioned earlier on this blog and all over the internet, suspicious problems were discovered weeks before the collapse, then there is some huge problem with the way that problems are treated, reported, and dealt with. “Bureaucracy with Chinese characteristics was responsible for the deaths of these people” is how one commenter put it.

Now, every aspect of this subway is going to be examined. I have read some brief snippets on the web about bidding process for this contract…in any case, i hope that even if there is no courageous muckracking by any one individual or outlet that at least, collectively, people can arrive at something approximating the truth.