A Japanese sinkhole which threatened to swallow up an entire street is continuing to enjoy its 15 minutes of fame after Fukuoka City workers filled it in within just one week of its appearance.
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HOW LONG WOULD THIS TAKE IN A U.S. URBAN UNION PARADISE?
6 months in U.S. with union workers
The environmental impact studies of refilling the sinkhole would have taken two years by themselves, and the district and circuit court injunctions protecting the endangered Sinkhole Mosquito discovered during the study would have added another 10 years and forced the city to relocate to a neighboring county.
It would have taken longer than this for the city to acknowledge that the sinkhole existed in the first place…
I live in Minnesota ( Land of 10,000 Taxes ) for almost 40 years. MNDOT (MN dept of transportation) moves at a snails pace. There is Route 100, a road that is about 12 miles long, a highly traveled north/south road connecting the interstate that rings Minneapolis / St Paul. MNDOT has be ‘improving’ this road for 40 YEARS!!!!!!!!! That’s right, they’ve been fucking with it for 40 years. Many were beginning to think that the orange barrels were part of the highway. Finally, it’s just about finished.
I-45 runs up and down eastern Texas, notably through Houston, where I lived in the 80s. Routinely, the highway department would choose 8 – 10 miles of I-45, maybe just north of Houston, tear it up to shit and repave it; once that was done, move downroad ten miles and choose a new section to demolish and rebuild. Once that was done, choose another strip …
Shit went on the whole time I was there (five years?). I bet it’s still going on, and some sections redone multiple times over the last three decades. Perpetual employment!
What’s orange and sleeps 6? A DOT truck.