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June 25, 2005 12:03 AM
Broken: Street planning
Tushar Sonak writes:
Watch out! There is a tree in that lane!
This picture was taken in Nagpur, India. When the city decided to widen the roads, the horticulture department did not allow them to cut trees...
lol lol
LOLZ!!
thats not borken ur broken omg
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A look at the future. This is the most broken thing I have seen on this site.
>don't start this... i would not want to be driving in a car, talking on a cell phone, and see that tree
Oh why not then we would be able to see a pic of your car on this broken.
LOL I was wondering the same thing myself whats in the left turn lane?
throw in a few more peddestrians some oil spills an emergency vehicle or two and you have a real live video game here folks.
One more thing notice the arrow directly before the tree instructing you to go straight? So if you go to the left or to the right will you get a ticket?
What's not broken here are the skills of the pavers. The guys who got it so flat right up to the tree are steamroller gods.
This smells like a fake to me. I'd use Google Maps to check it up but unfortunately Nasgul isn't in high-resolution...
Ciaran: This is not a fake. We have many roads like this in India - only in major cities, because hey, we don't widen roads in small cities. We have one in Bombay too - the largest city in India, on one of the busiest and fastest moving roads. I've personally done about 70Kph around a tree like this (Cadell Road, Bombay), though I'm not the fastest driver around. I've seen bikers do about 100.
Sergey: We don't ride donkeys. We drive cars and ride bikes, though it is not uncommon to see a bullock cart on the road, these are mainly for transport to locations that automatic vehicles cannot reach.
Eee, lookie here, its my home town intersection! im india from, we always not drive donkeys mostly drive, this normal not? Eat a steak lose your life cow holy very! india not broken, america broken very!
PLEASE! It's not a fake. Who would send a fake photo to This Is Broken???
I agree with Jello B. This is the most broken thing I have seen on this site so far! I never knew that the Indians were tree huggers.
What's broken is that you have to preserve a tree in the middle of a highway, and not some other slash 'n' burn rainforest.
Heh...Steamroller gods.
it's these things that make India such a wonderfull place, it's the best thing we Brits left behind... Redtape burocracy, he he he, the most wonderfull thing aout it is they just went ahead with the road marking as if it wasn't there lomfao, classic, i went to Nagpur has a wonderfull fort and lots of oranges this would make it worth visiting again.
_@_v - i wonder if a really heavy truck 'accidentally' rams that tree and knocks it down will they hafta put another tree there...
I see the two little trees on the far left hand side of the road have little cages around them. It is nice to know that a car going 40mph will cause no harm to these little baby trees thanks to these wire cages. Yes, this looks like a video game to me. Do ghosts pop out and run in front of you too? Is there a motorcycle cop on the other side of the tree? And with all the black and yellow striping on the edges of the roads my eyes are attracted there, I'd miss the tree until it was too late.
> It looks to me like Apoo's English is broken.
Looks to me that Apoo not Indian but some scrawny little programmer, trained at community college in Missouri and afraid to loose his job to Indians who are more qualified and less expensive than him.
Racist xenophobes are broken.
-tim
Couldn't the city complain to the government to override the Horticulture Dept.? Is this a major safety issue or just the cause of 3 fenderbenders? If anybody's died from it, they should remove it. A tree is not worth people's lives.
afraid to loose his
My boss does this too. Am I missing something? Isn't it "lose" not "loose?" I am assuming that this isn't a typo, as I have seen it so many times.
Sadly, this is not uncommon in India. The roads make way for recalcitrant banyans, places of worship and shrines to vaguely holy and half-remembered people.
Nice job by the horticulture department... How long is that tree going to survive now that its roots have been paved over?
It would be Just My Luck to Drive into that thing by accident, and have half the town happy cause I killed the Tree and the other side mad cause I killed the Tree, by Accident.
I live in Mexico City and years ago I lived one block away of a street that had a big tree in the middle of it, however, they built a brick protection around it, leaving some dirt between the pavement and the tree, so the roots could get water form the rain. And this "protection" was painted with black and yellow stripes making it clearly visible, even at night. I know having an obstacle, such as a big tree, in the middle of s atreet doesn't make sense for most people, but in a very polluted city such as Mexico City, in need of more trees and green areas, this is NOT BROKEN, on the contrary, the guys that decided to respect the tree's life, are to be commended for their good decision.
In the town where I attended college (Athens, GA, USA) there is the "Tree That Owns Itself" sitting in the middle of a road traveled by car. In the 19th century a fellow willed the land on which the tree stands to the tree itself.
See http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==312
Photo at http://www.athensworld.com/gallery/assorted_scenery/tree
Hi, As someone who lives in Nagpur and travels that road everyday, I can tell you that this is the handiwork of treehuggers who went to court to preserve tress in the middle of roads in the city ;-).
When the guy who was responsible for all the road widening was transferred to another region, assholes took over, things went slow and this is the result.
In any case, the tree is gone now as far as I can remember. But electric poles, telephone poles and electricity junction boxes still exist dangerously in the middle in some places.
Hi, As someone who lives in Nagpur and travels that road everyday, I can tell you that this is the handiwork of treehuggers who went to court to preserve tress in the middle of roads in the city ;-).
When the guy who was responsible for all the road widening was transferred to another region, assholes took over, things went slow and this is the result.
In any case, the tree is gone now as far as I can remember. But electric poles, telephone poles and electricity junction boxes still exist dangerously in the middle in some places.
It would take much more than a really big truck to take down a tree that big. My brother hit a tree 4 years ago, it had a diameter of about 4-6 inches and the car ended up in 2 peices, the tree on the other hand only lost some bark. thankfully he is ok.
About the tree that owns itself, the government can take land to make roads and stuff as long as they pay the owners, in which case they would have to pay the tree...
I used some really good software. the in-lane tree was pasted in there and the bottom of the tree was blurred.
It occurs to me that if you have loads of obstacles in the middle of your newly widened road, perhaps the road widening was a waste of time as the total driveable width didn't really expand.
Definitely the most broken thing I've ever seen on this site.
I'm still wondering how they paved on either side of the tree.
Also, what IS in the middle of the left lane?
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First post!
That said, this is very broken, albeit entertaining.
Posted by: Ilan at June 25, 2005 12:26 AM