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dan-o

Turbo Monkey
Jun 30, 2004
6,499
2,805
Enough with the stereotypes already.
Actually, carry on.:rofl:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2965078.html
Ananova:

Builders bungle train tunnel
Bungling engineers have been left red-faced after building a railway tunnel that's too small for trains to actually fit through.

The costly mistake was only discovered when inspectors measured the finished tunnel in the Polish capital, Warsaw, and realised the roof was so low that no trains would get under it.

Rail bosses claim the mix-up happened because workers who were laying new tracks didn't talk to the team that was building the tunnel.

"During work on the tunnel, tracks were laid down on newly-raised ground which meant the distance between the tracks and roof of the tunnel became shorter," said Polish Railways spokesman Marta Szklarek.

The cock-up is the latest in a series of public transport construction fiascoes in Poland.

A tunnel built recently to divert lorry traffic in Warsaw turned out to be too low for lorries.

Last year, the Polish road authority produced plans for two sections of major motorway that would have missed each other by five miles - each coming to a dead end in the middle of the countryside.
 

norbar

KESSLER PROBLEM. Just cause
Jun 7, 2007
11,346
1,587
Warsaw :/
Enough with the stereotypes already.
Actually, carry on.:rofl:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2965078.html
Ananova:

Builders bungle train tunnel
Bungling engineers have been left red-faced after building a railway tunnel that's too small for trains to actually fit through.

The costly mistake was only discovered when inspectors measured the finished tunnel in the Polish capital, Warsaw, and realised the roof was so low that no trains would get under it.

Rail bosses claim the mix-up happened because workers who were laying new tracks didn't talk to the team that was building the tunnel.

"During work on the tunnel, tracks were laid down on newly-raised ground which meant the distance between the tracks and roof of the tunnel became shorter," said Polish Railways spokesman Marta Szklarek.

The cock-up is the latest in a series of public transport construction fiascoes in Poland.

A tunnel built recently to divert lorry traffic in Warsaw turned out to be too low for lorries.

Last year, the Polish road authority produced plans for two sections of major motorway that would have missed each other by five miles - each coming to a dead end in the middle of the countryside.
Should have seen our bike prices. That a joke ;)

BTW. The London subway had the same ****up at the time it was built ;)
 

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
Staff member
May 23, 2002
21,031
5,921
borcester rhymes
They are still trying to get the lightbulbs installed at the factory.
Jan is holding the lightbulb, and the rest of the employees are trying to spin the building around it.
i thought he was just holding the lightbulb, and waiting for the world to rotate around him.
 

wood booger

Monkey
Jul 16, 2008
668
72
the land of cheap beer
Does this mean Jan can finally get that bionic finger (or thumb, I can't remember) that he has been dreaming of since whacking his off?

Maybe a little extra coin in the bail bond fund when he gets caught w/ the latest jailbait?

All joking aside, those bikes killed it @ Northstar when they weren't broken or waiting to get repaired. They eat baby heads for breakfast.