China: Authorities expand road, fail to remove pole

[Scott5114]

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/140194/Driven-up-the-pole!/

The site I found this article on had a comment which said "So they have PennDOT over there too, huh?"

[algorerhythms]

Heh. When I saw that, I thought maybe ODOT would like to try that on the I-35 widening project.

[Chris]

You see this kind of stuff sometimes too in the "new world" in central/Eastern Europe, like Poland, Russia or Romania. Not like this though, but stuff like a telephone tower in the middle of a parking lot or cycling paths that end at a fence.

[City]

Too expensive!? Sorry, that excuse doesn't work. That power company shouldn't care about the price of removing the pole; just remove it! Sheesh, do they even care about the people who ram into it? The victims can sue them. And why in the world would a DOT make the markings on the road say to go dead on towards the pole at 50 MPH!?!? 

Now if that was in the US, well, the DOT that screwed up would surely get sued up to its gills.

[agentsteel53]

The victims can sue them.

China has not yet reached the "lawsuit-happy" stage of capitalism.