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oc1 ◴[] No.44522688[source]
<< According to official records, the design for the bridge shifted multiple times over the past seven years, largely due to conflicts between the Public Works Department (PWD) and the Railways. The two agencies couldn’t agree on how to share land, and in trying to work around both railway property and the new Metro line, they ended up producing a final layout with an abrupt 90-degree angle.

I love that mindset. Europeans would have simply refused and 100 years later it would have probably been build after all legal has been cleared. Indians instead never say no. That's how you build software, so why not bridges.

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sidewndr46 ◴[] No.44523198[source]
The only way it could get funnier is if the roadway had to be inverted 180 degrees like a roller coaster at some point.
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1. smitty1e ◴[] No.44525748[source]
Or a large pole with seven cables from its tip were installed at the vertex, making the project a literal suspension bridge.