Here's The Weirdly Mesmerising Sight Of 116 Excavators Tearing Up An Overpass

The main section of this overpass in Nanchang, China was efficiently taken down in just one night using an army of diggers

Matt Robinson

08 Sep 2016

This entire 24-year-old overpass was removed causing just 56 hours of traffic disruption, with the main part of the structure torn down in one night thanks to a massive deployment of diggers.

Impressive, no?

Video via Sploid

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Comments

So 2 days, and a quarter of a day of traffic disruption? Not bad…

It would be 56 months in the UK !

Brush the apocalypse would’ve come and gone by the time they’d finished

And 6 years in the U.s

“Ok, everybody stand around Steve wile he digs a hole and we all smoke”.

They would have never started in Australia because there will have been a change of government and they would have cancelled the funding for no reason.

Exactly what I was thinking. And four about four of those months there’ll be a temporary speed limit, a bunch of cones but no work started…

56 years in Slovakia :(

Meanwhile, it takes my local road work blokes about a week to paint a line and lay one square metre of tarmac. #justaustralianthings

Same a street in my suburb has spilt paint on it for about 3 months and they haven’t done anything.

#justaustralianthings

And the whole time they have a 25 sign and no end road work sign, then when they’re done they pack up everything except said 25 sign until about 3 months later #justaustralianthings

That’s some quick work. Meanwhile in the western world, in the same amount of time for the same amount of money there’s be about 6 guys, 5 of which standing around and one of which sitting in a truck waiting for the other 5 to take their fingers out and start working