World event (hasty) road construction

[Alps]

World Cup woes: http://news.yahoo.com/overpass-collapses-world-cup-city-crushes-vehicles-000155920--sow.html


Makes me wonder about places like Sochi in the future. How are the roads faring in other countries that had to rapidly bulk up infrastructure to host a World Cup or Olympics-scale event?

[english si]

Sochi will be alright - Putin, if he's gonna throw billions at the oligarch's playground, doesn't want a shoddy job.

http://mapq.st/1rsQZPm
There wasn't much transport infrastructure needed - a new road and rail route from the coast to the venues at Krasnaya Polyana in the mountains, an upgrade of the E97 between Sochi city and the border, a rail link to the Airport from the city, and a new station at the Olympic Park and possibly some other places (Adler town) to make a metro service. It looks little different to a lot of poorer-eastern European countries' new roads and railways, only unlike the Athens Olympics (note a lack of problems here), its funded with billionaire's oil money, rather than debt...

China is China - I believe Beijing 08-specific infrastructure is fine, but obviously they do get shoddy stuff where roads, or rail fails with disastrous consequences. They tend to be in poorer, more rural, areas though.

[vdeane]

Aren't some of the Sochi roads already decaying?