Oeps, foutje!

Vannacht is de voetgangersbrug die leidt van de parking tot aan het belangrijkste stadion ingestort. Ik bedacht me al eerder dat ik voor het nemen van de metro misschien toch een jaartje zou wachten, zodat alle bruggen en tunnels de nodige 'testen' hebben doorstaan. En voila, het is een feit, er is al een brug ingestort. De spelen starten binnen een dikke 10 dagen. Ze gaan proberen de brug te herstellen. Hopelijk is dit het laatste incident!

Footbridge collapse: Inquiry ordered, firm blacklisted
TNN, Sep 22, 2010, 01.41am IST


NEW DELHI: Preparations for the Commonwealth Games received a jolt on Tuesday when a pedestrian overbridge collapsed near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Eyewitness said the bridge came crashing down with a thunderous thud at 3.05pm as workers were giving it finishing touches and laying concrete layers on the walkway. ''Suddenly, one portion of the FOB on the stadium side collapsed. We saw labourers jumping from the bridge. The entire bridge came down in less than a minute,'' said Mohammad Ayub, a worker. He said no medical help was immediately available and the injured had to be rushed to hospital in private cars.

PWD officials, present at the site when the structure came down, said first two pairs of clamps of structures called the Macalloy bar suspenders, imported from Britain, broke and there was a progressive failure of the remaining 11 pairs resulting in the collapse. ''The arch is still intact. A proper investigation would reveal what went wrong in this project,'' said a senior Delhi government official.

''We are investigating the matter and anyone found responsible for this negligence would be brought to book. However, this will not affect our preparation for the Games,'' Chauhan said.

Late in the evening, Delhi government announced a team of experts led by retired CPWD director-general H S Dogra and an IIT teacher to probe the disaster and report back withing two weeks.

Police registered a case of causing injury due to negligence and authorities blacklisted the contractor.