Subway Incindent
A while ago there was a story about one Moscow city street advertisement agency.
What made them famous? Their attempt to install a new street ad stand, so they had to hammer in a concrete pile into ground. They started doing this and suddenly the pile came down through ground layer and disappeared somewhere down there.
Yes, they were shocked but they had a task to accomplish so they started to smash in another pile – it also broke in through the ground. Now they got really puzzled.
So where have their piles gone? They gone right into a subway train, nailed a full of people subway train moving at 40mph (70kmh) down to the ground – right in the middle of the working day. They got extremely lucky that the subway car in which they hammered in a pile was almost empty and nobody got seriously injured.
This is how the metro car looked after the incindent.
And that’s those two piles. After the first one hit the car, the train was stopped, and the second one followed making another hole in the car’s roof.
That’s one of those holes.
And this is the view of this car in general. A layer of sand, dust and concrete crumb covers the floor and even falls out from the car through the opened door.
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Goodness! I’m glad nobody was hurt. I’ll bet that those workers were really puzzled to see the pilings disappear.
Yes, they got extremely lucky. Everybody knows that the Moscow metro is extremely overcrowded at almost all times of the day. Had this happened at another time, a bunch of metro passengers would have died and the drillers would have been sent to the koloniya.
Interestingly, there was an incident in 1995 in St Pete where a subway tunnel on the red line got flooded during a construction accident and it took them nine years to rebuild it.
It seems that after the first pile dissappeared in such a fashion, that the work crew would have figured things out and not attempted the second pile. Were they drinking on the job?
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They workers just do what they told, it was a planning and enginering failure. The agency is no more, because it got a huge bash from the authorities.
I personally think that authorities shuold be bashed as well. Same morons.
This is nothing compared to what happened recently in Portugal where a guy accidentally drove his car onto the subway tracks in Porto and went half of km inside the tunnel!! The authorities had to stop all trains and pull his car out. I mean, how stupid can you be, not noticing that you’re driving on railtracks in a metro tunnel?! It’s not like there are any other cars driving by!
TO: BelarusGuy
Tsk. Tsk. In Saint-Petersburg the story went like this: when they constructed metro (someday in ussr) they stumbled on an underground river (ther was no water in it, mud, in this case, but still it is called a “river”). So they just froze this place with some chemicals (nitrogen? i don’t know). This technology works this way: after the “freezing” the thing requires “renewal injections” of this chemical, to keep mud frozen (like every 50 years or so, not “daily”, anyway :)). But when ussr collapsed, they didn’t have money for that, so mud became liquid again and the “tube” was damaged.
Why it took so long? Well, the new governor of the city was a donkey (or even more stupid, this one is mostly “optimistic” diagnosis for him). So he tried different technics to rebuild this part. One of the “smartest” things was to buy italian underground excavator (a good machine, fully automatic, but it was not siutable for this terrain, it’s “jaws” got clogged every few meters). So, as old proverb says, “there are 2 problems in Russia, fools and roads”. If fools are doing something with the roads, problems grow exponentially
looks like you are not a great expert in mining and underground construction. The catastrophe in leningrad subway happened in soviet time in 1974. heaving sands need constant freezing, not once in 50 years.
I’d say ages ago, rather than “a while”.
[...] When you’re hammering a concrete piling into the ground and it slides out of view and disappears, just remember: it had to go somewhere. Thus, don’t grab a second one and start over until you find out what happened to the first, since for all you know it could have slammed into a subway train below you. [...]