My experience with a lack of hard shoulder on the same M1 they talk about here. I was traveling with a friend and we were moving at 95 kph when his motor simply cut out. We coasted for a while, hoping to make a refuge but never did. A faulty master computer had shorted and the car was never going to restart without the computer being replaced. We got stopped just a few CM from the wall and started to get out to climb over the wall. Somebody pulled in behind us and yelled if we were out of petrol. No, the motor just quit with a 'check motor' light on. OK, so he eased up and started to push us the 1/2 km to the refuge. We never made it. The bloke got hit from behind. He was killed and we were actually catapulted over the hard wall and into the woods beyond. That wall was nearly a meter high! While still alive, we were both in hospital a few days. The US has the same problem in many places miles and miles with no shoulder. Even police cars with lights flashing, or fire trucks, big, red, and dozens of red lights on them get hit. And not that a hard shoulder is all that safe, either. Fire trucks on the shoulder get plastered regularly, also. Cell phones now account for more of these collisions than alcohol. Straight up, our lives are a mess, and careless people are making them worse. And the judicial system does not take cell phone use/distracted driving as any type of danger.
I couldn't agree more. I was nearly killed because an SUV drifted into my lane. I was driving a full size old steel pickup otherwise I would not be here to type this. People take driving for granted, they are eating, texting, turning around to talk to someone behind them. I even once saw a woman putting on eye makeup. So sorry a decent, helpful man died but glad you and your friend made it
“Hard shoulders” make the utmost sense given what was presented here! I’d never heard of them; my state in the USA doesn’t utilize this smart concept. Sadly, it’s not surprising that given increased traffic (single-user large vehicles included), a dedicated strip of asphalt for broken down vehicles and ambulance travel would be stolen back in order to “clear the congestion.” It sounds as if two live humans were indeed tragically “cleared” from the roadway due to inoperable computer monitored “hard shoulder” lane access… There is much more to Getting Somewhere than yet another strip of roadway to drive upon!
As to the outrigger support, having worked as a rigger on a bridge, we would build "Pig Stys", a platform of beams with a good area, and then at least one other layer, at 90 degrees. Even with these measures, we had a load of concrete being swung over a pit to pour a foundation, and the wall of the pit collapsed and the boom of the crane dropped into the pit. There were about 6 of us in the pit for the two cubic yards bucket but we saw it coming and jumped to the side. Another crane was brought in to lift the boom up and get the crane on level ground. 1973.
In the UK they used the hard shoulder as part of the "Smart motorways", but it was the dumbest idea the road planners thought of. It should have been taken into account, inevitable even, that a vehicle would breakdown and stop on the hard shoulder that they had converted to a live lane. 2 lives lost for bad planning. I never take a chance using this "Smart lane" I stay in the normal 3 lanes and stay safe.
See 24:40 True. But what about the battle between "big engineering" and its lack of understanding of calculations based on lab results and how the real world actually fits over time, with time. Is stasis a dangerous illusion?
In Massachusetts we call them "breakdown lanes", unfortunately close to Boston our main north south artery I-93 lost them years ago with out any tech to compensate. I don't know if anyone has collected accident information on this change.
See 20:13 It appears that the designers of the 1928 build built the apparent backfilled section to what must have been apparently very close to today's standards as stated in the video. See also 24:16 Apparently the new $7,000,000 project will last at least a couple of years longer? See 15:50
I get having water high gives pressure by gravity but how do they pump it so high in the first place somesort of energy was used so why not just use it to pump water seems like a false economy wat am i missing guys im an aussie we dont use These water towers. We do have Some before evryone jumps me for that we do have them but probs count on a couple of hands max how many we have so yer i dont get it.
ALSO - When you are in the "Smart lane" to continue straight on and come to a slip road in heavy traffic the car on your left has to cross over in front of you to leave the motorway.
I have a hunch the retaining wall in this video I think they're a little bit overconfident. If they get another Year with heavy rainfall they'll find out as everything collapses all around their nice little wall. You gotta be smarter than mother nature and I have a feeling they're not quite there
Well I suspect they were up there to help position the tank, however they probably saw and possibly felt that the crane was getting unstable so therefore tried to climb down as quick as possible.
Ha! The Bri-ish don't learn safety lessons anymore, the authorities just evaluate financial risk. We are a broken country and if a government (doesn't matter which party) thinks it can save a few quid by not building a proper 4th lane that includes a hard shoulder, it will and a few deaths will not change anything, unless it is a coach party of billionaires, however they use helicopters and planes rather than share road space with the great unwashed! 💐🦕💃⚔️🤔🐈⬛😼♥️☕🥖🧀🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🏳️⚧️💐
Honestly I couldn't tell those roads from American ones there was so much traffic. I felt badly for that woman. I was nearly killed on a highway with no shoulder only cement Jersey walls (Don't know what they might be called in UK). A very supportive police officer said they had been complaining about that stretch of road for years to the highway people, too many accidents. No one listened of course.
In NYC we have a big crane fall about twice a year. I really don't see the point in asking what the "cause" was, because the answer is obvious. People assume risks that they haven't calculated properly. Maybe there's pressure, maybe someone's in a hurry. It's no different if you're planning something permanent and cause a landslide, for instance. We had such an incident along the Metro North Hudson River Line - formerly the four-track New York Central Railroad - recently. Somebody built up this big pile of earth on the edge of a precipice overlooking the river in order to "make more room" ...to built a RATHER OVERSIZED house and a VERY large swimming pool right at the very edge of the new, fake precipice. First big rain the whole mess slid onto the tracks. (well not the pool, though it remained intact in its new location) OH! CLIMATE CHANGE! shitheads. There are a lot of similar actions by engineers in the US now. A certain Interstate junction east of Philadelphia comes to mind, wher up is down an dnown is up. It's a common ploy that got it's start with the railroads. A studied look at the state of our railroads says a lot. It's a racket and that's how! Or see Boeing, for instance. The people in the ascendancy have become (as a rule) so dishonest and corrupt that it's impossible to get anything accomplished. I mean, what's an engineering mistake like that except dishonesty or seen in the proper light, LYING. We have to remove them from every phase of life that matters, before anything can get done.
P.S. The up-down, down-up mistake in S. Jersey will be preserved after the landslide. Which design issue was clearly the cause of the first landslide, before the road even opened. They will add massive unnatural infrastructure there to force their "mistake" to stay in place. Needless to say their reasoning is Way Off. And thus a comparatively simple project gets padded out to the max, and beyond.God, help us.
Yes while hard shoulders are vital the General public using these motorways must snap out of there half asleep mindset and start assuming some bloody responsibility for being smart enough NOT TO GET YOURSELF KILLED foolishly . Did they really have to stop in the roadway to exchange information Or could they have driven on with a flat tire for another 1/2 mile or so I say YES YOU COULD HAVE ..
I have a question in the United States. We have a thing that happens. To be called blowout. Were you tired blow out? I mean, cars break down all the time too, but you know, when it's terrible that you pretty much. Gotta get off the road, especially with the steering tire. You can drive a mile and what must be nice to be a politician. You have another car pick you up
This should be required viewing for engineering students everywhere.
My experience with a lack of hard shoulder on the same M1 they talk about here. I was traveling with a friend and we were moving at 95 kph when his motor simply cut out. We coasted for a while, hoping to make a refuge but never did. A faulty master computer had shorted and the car was never going to restart without the computer being replaced. We got stopped just a few CM from the wall and started to get out to climb over the wall. Somebody pulled in behind us and yelled if we were out of petrol. No, the motor just quit with a 'check motor' light on. OK, so he eased up and started to push us the 1/2 km to the refuge. We never made it. The bloke got hit from behind. He was killed and we were actually catapulted over the hard wall and into the woods beyond. That wall was nearly a meter high! While still alive, we were both in hospital a few days. The US has the same problem in many places miles and miles with no shoulder. Even police cars with lights flashing, or fire trucks, big, red, and dozens of red lights on them get hit. And not that a hard shoulder is all that safe, either. Fire trucks on the shoulder get plastered regularly, also.
Cell phones now account for more of these collisions than alcohol.
Straight up, our lives are a mess, and careless people are making them worse. And the judicial system does not take cell phone use/distracted driving as any type of danger.
They made the motorway smarter but not safer. In fact took away a safety feature to give room for more high speed cars and trucks. Makes sense!
I couldn't agree more. I was nearly killed because an SUV drifted into my lane. I was driving a full size old steel pickup otherwise I would not be here to type this. People take driving for granted, they are eating, texting, turning around to talk to someone behind them. I even once saw a woman putting on eye makeup. So sorry a decent, helpful man died but glad you and your friend made it
Bless that bloke
2:45 I love that grady from practical engineering is on here
I will NEVER!! understand why reinforced cement pads are not required for big and heavy installations. Unforigiveable.
“Hard shoulders” make the utmost sense given what was presented here! I’d never heard of them; my state in the USA doesn’t utilize this smart concept.
Sadly, it’s not surprising that given increased traffic (single-user large vehicles included), a dedicated strip of asphalt for broken down vehicles and ambulance travel would be stolen back in order to “clear the congestion.” It sounds as if two live humans were indeed tragically “cleared” from the roadway due to inoperable computer monitored “hard shoulder” lane access…
There is much more to Getting Somewhere than yet another strip of roadway to drive upon!
As to the outrigger support, having worked as a rigger on a bridge, we would build "Pig Stys", a platform of beams with a good area, and then at least one other layer, at 90 degrees.
Even with these measures, we had a load of concrete being swung over a pit to pour a foundation, and the wall of the pit collapsed and the boom of the crane dropped into the pit. There were about 6 of us in the pit for the two cubic yards bucket but we saw it coming and jumped to the side. Another crane was brought in to lift the boom up and get the crane on level ground. 1973.
In the UK they used the hard shoulder as part of the "Smart motorways", but it was the dumbest idea the road planners thought of. It should have been taken into account, inevitable even, that a vehicle would breakdown and stop on the hard shoulder that they had converted to a live lane. 2 lives lost for bad planning. I never take a chance using this "Smart lane" I stay in the normal 3 lanes and stay safe.
The road fix should have used an arch design to oppose the hillside load. That flat wall will eventually tilt with the weight of the slope....
MIDAS? The arrogant greek king who famously wrecked everything he touched when cursed by the gods?
See 24:40 True. But what about the battle between "big engineering" and its lack of understanding of calculations based on lab results and how the real world actually fits over time, with time. Is stasis a dangerous illusion?
The shed on the wall kills me
So Pittsburgh… lol. I love it here….
In Massachusetts we call them "breakdown lanes", unfortunately close to Boston our main north south artery I-93 lost them years ago with out any tech to compensate. I don't know if anyone has collected accident information on this change.
IOWA crane was mis set misused too far from immediate site..and I am a biologist to boot..HOw CAN I know and they knot?
holy sh!t. "were getting a water tower". lol. HIGH SOCIETY!!! lol
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24:20 I was expecting him to say:"this isn't going anywhere".
See 20:13 It appears that the designers of the 1928 build built the apparent backfilled section to what must have been apparently very close to today's standards as stated in the video. See also 24:16 Apparently the new $7,000,000 project will last at least a couple of years longer?
See 15:50
I get having water high gives pressure by gravity but how do they pump it so high in the first place somesort of energy was used so why not just use it to pump water seems like a false economy wat am i missing guys im an aussie we dont use These water towers. We do have Some before evryone jumps me for that we do have them but probs count on a couple of hands max how many we have so yer i dont get it.
ALSO - When you are in the "Smart lane" to continue straight on and come to a slip road in heavy traffic the car on your left has to cross over in front of you to leave the motorway.
wtf... I'm no mechanical engineer but TIMBERS to support a crane? 🤯
bloody hell, is that really common practice?
If you place a crane outrigger on disturbed soil, better have a geotech approve the placement.
36:19 UK - a SMALL COUNTRY??? Literally the biggest empire to have ever existed lol
Fail is not a noun
never get rid of a good thing
you need a anti landslide mesh
I have a hunch the retaining wall in this video I think they're a little bit overconfident. If they get another Year with heavy rainfall they'll find out as everything collapses all around their nice little wall. You gotta be smarter than mother nature and I have a feeling they're not quite there
Why would there be workers climbing down when the crane was moving? OSHA VIOLATION?
Well I suspect they were up there to help position the tank, however they probably saw and possibly felt that the crane was getting unstable so therefore tried to climb down as quick as possible.
@@Dino-1958I agree. They where probably bailing like mice in a sinking ship. No OSHA person is going to fault anyone for scrambling for there life.
@zebjensen4251 op is implying that osha would slap the contractor not the workers for having the workers up there while the crane was moving the load.
Ha! The Bri-ish don't learn safety lessons anymore, the authorities just evaluate financial risk. We are a broken country and if a government (doesn't matter which party) thinks it can save a few quid by not building a proper 4th lane that includes a hard shoulder, it will and a few deaths will not change anything, unless it is a coach party of billionaires, however they use helicopters and planes rather than share road space with the great unwashed!
💐🦕💃⚔️🤔🐈⬛😼♥️☕🥖🧀🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🏳️⚧️💐
Honestly I couldn't tell those roads from American ones there was so much traffic. I felt badly for that woman. I was nearly killed on a highway with no shoulder only cement Jersey walls (Don't know what they might be called in UK). A very supportive police officer said they had been complaining about that stretch of road for years to the highway people, too many accidents. No one listened of course.
Te difference between Mother nature and engineering is the lack of engineers skills to allow for mother nature
In NYC we have a big crane fall about twice a year. I really don't see the point in asking what the "cause" was, because the answer is obvious. People assume risks that they haven't calculated properly. Maybe there's pressure, maybe someone's in a hurry. It's no different if you're planning something permanent and cause a landslide, for instance. We had such an incident along the Metro North Hudson River Line - formerly the four-track New York Central Railroad - recently. Somebody built up this big pile of earth on the edge of a precipice overlooking the river in order to "make more room" ...to built a RATHER OVERSIZED house and a VERY large swimming pool right at the very edge of the new, fake precipice. First big rain the whole mess slid onto the tracks. (well not the pool, though it remained intact in its new location) OH! CLIMATE CHANGE! shitheads. There are a lot of similar actions by engineers in the US now. A certain Interstate junction east of Philadelphia comes to mind, wher up is down an dnown is up. It's a common ploy that got it's start with the railroads. A studied look at the state of our railroads says a lot. It's a racket and that's how! Or see Boeing, for instance. The people in the ascendancy have become (as a rule) so dishonest and corrupt that it's impossible to get anything accomplished. I mean, what's an engineering mistake like that except dishonesty or seen in the proper light, LYING. We have to remove them from every phase of life that matters, before anything can get done.
P.S. The up-down, down-up mistake in S. Jersey will be preserved after the landslide. Which design issue was clearly the cause of the first landslide, before the road even opened. They will add massive unnatural infrastructure there to force their "mistake" to stay in place. Needless to say their reasoning is Way Off. And thus a comparatively simple project gets padded out to the max, and beyond.God, help us.
Its utube
I'm certain a 5th grader would have known better SMH
Damn long commercials 💩💩💩💩 ruin the content. Can't skip them, and this is something that I am not even interested in. 😥
31:22, if this happened in China, you guys would be crying tofu, so what do you cry when it's in your own country
Yes while hard shoulders are vital the General public using these motorways must snap out of there half asleep mindset and start assuming some bloody responsibility for being smart enough NOT TO GET YOURSELF KILLED foolishly . Did they really have to stop in the roadway to exchange information Or could they have driven on with a flat tire for another 1/2 mile or so I say YES YOU COULD HAVE ..
get becky hairdo off screen
This made me giggle, thank you
I have a question in the United States. We have a thing that happens. To be called blowout. Were you tired blow out? I mean, cars break down all the time too, but you know, when it's terrible that you pretty much. Gotta get off the road, especially with the steering tire. You can drive a mile and what must be nice to be a politician. You have another car pick you up
It was.
N't the only place to build the city?It's where you built the city fin and simple.There's other places that could have been built
As a Pittsburgher I wanted to bitchslp that man. Look up the Fern Hollow Bridge, that was when a bridge fell here 2 years ago.