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Q: Why do they have to replace the road/sidewalk when its not even old?

I think we all know the answer to this, but what I mean is "Why do they have to?"

 

There's so much more to invest in rather than the same tired things, and if you can't make it better, it can still be better designed instead of road and sidewalks and stairs that lead to nowhere.

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Busy work. It's a throw-back to the "Iron Rice Bowl" days where everybody had a job (regardless if they were over/under qualified for it). What makes me laugh is the lack of inter-departmental communication: rip up sidewalk, replace. Rip up sidewalk again, add new sewer pipes, replace. Rip up sidewalk again, add new gas pipes, replace. Rip up sidewalk again, add new communications cables, replace. Ad infinitum.

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It happened near my house last year. They replaced the pavement three times in 10 months. O, last time was this year's spring. And the result? I guess a fourth time would be justified. What annoyed me the most is they placed these little concrete pillars to prevent cars from parking on the sidewalk and whoever it was has bluntly dug them out again as to accomodate themselves/their suppliers. Leaving a hole and the bricks sliding into it slowly. It seems, indeed, to be a way to keep the economy running. And it's not only pavement. They do it with whole buildings, whole cities. When you tell the average Chinese he will spend his life in an eternal construction site, he'll laugh. No no no, it's just a passing phase. And there's no connection to the pollution or the traffic jams either.

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The road in front of our building is less than two years old. The sidewalks have been ripped up three times already. The brilliant thing is that they have even, on both sides of the road, established crawlspace underneath the sidewalk for cabling. I have no clue why they do it, but each time, the newly put down tiles gets a little less even.

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When I lived in Kunming the sidewalks of the entire city got torn up. Turns out the new mayor was 'making his mark' on the urban landscape. His 'mark' involved construction dust and sidewalks that looked exactly the same as before. He did paint the bridges some interesting colours though. 

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busy work to keep an entire population working, they make bad quality so someone can fix the item, if they do everything right, then they will have to take the foreign capital reserves and create a liberal welfare state for the idle workers, oh no , the horror.

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