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?
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.
Aren't some of the Sochi roads already decaying?