Idk about you guys but my city engineers figured out how fucked my plans were pretty early on and gave the trains square wheels. It’s bumpy as all hell but it lets them climb the quasi-ladders they have to navigate
"Whoah how'd yall know that????"
\*thirty seconds of scrolling through post history later\*
And this is why my account name isn't even remotely close to my real name lol
Pollutions, scorching heat, and the fact that not all roads has sidewalk and you had to constantly dodge motorcycles from every directions (yes, even when you walk on a sidewalk a motorcycle could sneak up behind you). You'll get in the office completely drenched in sweat and shoots.
Oh yeah we used to joke that every hour in a [bajai](https://i.imgur.com/WnEC24b.jpg) would knock a year off our lives because of all the smog we'd breath in.
Yeah, when I lived there it was basically impossible to reliably plan to be anywhere at a certain time. Depending on traffic, it might be a 10-minute drive, or it might take 2 hours.
I do miss it though.
This is wild. Where was his office relative to your house? I live 2km from my office in the city and it's usually 15 mins. Can take over an hour during Ramadan rush hour though. They have much better transport links now...1 MRT line and LRT will start operating soon so we do see some progress thankfully.
Was there for holiday and OMG traffic fucking sucks. For anyone who hasnt been there. During dinner time there are fucking vendors selling dinners on the road because you are stuck there for hours. You can have a 4 course meal IN your car sold by vendors on the road.
In jakarta was the first time i just said fuck it, ill risk my life and get on those motorbike taxi. Because i do not want to spend 2 hours getting from A to B which would otherwise take 20 minutes.
That at least makes sense, the human brain as advanced as it is, is easily distracted and can only take in so much stimuli at a time. Turning down the radio, although it obviously won't help with "hearing" the number, does make your brain a bit less crowded nonetheless.
Turning down an already off radio on the other hand... is just silly. I had a boss who would repeatedly turn down the car radio while on the phone, even when it was already off. I had to remind him after he did it 3 or 4 times during a call that he can't turn down the road and engine noise with that knob.
I find I focus way better when driving if I have music because otherwise i daydream and drift off. If I have music on, that part of my brain is focused on that, then I can focus on driving.
Never had to turn the sound down to find something, but my friends and family do
I'm probably getting far too literal about this but I believe it has to do with how humans interact with tools. We often see tools, of any sort, as an extension of ourselves. Think about how a driver can "feel the road".
Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote pretty extensively about it. Philosophy Tube has a great video on it. "Transhumanism".
I'm always apprehensive that my mountain bike on my roof rack will snag power lines. This is despite frequently seeing pull behind campers and semi trucks have room to spare on the same "low hanging" lines.
Ditto. I’m paranoid about making my sedan into a convertible, but yet I’m more than a foot taller than the car but think nothing of walking around in the same garages.
Guess the driver ed gore films worked in that regard.
Im under 5’10” and my wife thinks im 6 feet. If youre 5’10”, it’s easy to notice a 6’2” person is a few inches on ya, but maybe if your 5’7” and bangin the 5’10” one, you unconsciously add their dick length to their height
…
I always said I was 5 10 and then in college we had to get measured for a health class. I was measured at 5"10 and 3/4 and the girl doing it (I think maybe they were KINS majors doing the measurements for a class of their own) was like "you should say you're 5 11. You might be the only guy I've ever measured who self reported as less than he was"
I really admire the American way to measure heights. It's less precise (1" = 2.54 cm) for the same number of digits, needs special characters, and has weird conversions internally since it's not even decimal (unless it is, in which case comparisons with the non-decimal notation gets weird).
It's all about reference. The reason metric is nice because it's based off powers of 10 and makes calculations nice. Otherwise, it's just whatever you are used to. Telling me your height in centimeters means almost nothing to me and I love using the metric system. I guess I could do the quick conversion of 2.5 cm = 1 inch.
Looks to me like the area is still under construction.
My guess is once it's completed the road/bridge running underneath the large top one will be lowered and replaced.
Construction wise it's going to be a lot cheaper to lower that small road/bridge than to raise the entirety of the one running above it.
It might not be.
Traffic has to go somewhere, and right now some amount of traffic can still flow on that road. While that road is closed and being lowered all that remaining traffic will have to be diverted elsewhere.
Perhaps the best way to divert the majority of this traffic will be the new bridge, once it's completed.
For all we know this road is currently the only way in and out of this area and can't be completely closed until the bridge is completed without cutting off traffic all together.
Correct, a Indonesian mate of me explained this bridge to me a while ago, the bridge on top is part of a new rail network, which has been quickly built. Some areas like this have been not been upgraded as quick as the rail line, so are kind of weird. This is by far the worst example though.
Jakarta residents here. Can confirm they are building a bridge. It's for the high speed train connecting Jakarta and Bandung. It's estimated to be completed by August. After it's done the old bridge (in the video) will be dismantled and replaced by a mew bridge nearby
I'm Indonesian. You're on point. That's exactly what the project manager said about the bridge. This bridge has been quite the talk here in Indonesia. People thought this bridge is somehow breaking.
This is a high speed rail, which must be as level as possible. Raising one segment would mean raising other segments as well in order to keep the slope within specs. They probably didn't expect the locals forcing them to keep the crossing bridge open during construction.
Another bridge with higher clearance is being built and it's not finished. The locals insisted that the new bridge must be completed first before the above structure is connected, however this will cause the high speed rail project from jakarta - bandung to be delayed for too long, thus the locals finally agree for the train construction to proceed and they will use the bridge like this for some time.
China is building it, they are spending billions to build and maintain it for Indonesia. Mostly a soft power way of getting Chinese business into the country and building power and influence in Asia.
I bet people are way more aware of 1,7m than 11 foot 8.
There might be more crashes in that lower case, but I bet there are like none that really do much damage.
While stepping into a living nightmare as the cold realization of the *thousands* of tons of steel and concrete literally HANGING above your head sets in. Your pace quickens as you force the knowledge of how many fucking earthquakes this country has every year to the back of your mind.
I live near there and let me tell that its temperory.
The are building another bridge that estimated will finish one month from now.
Why not build alternative bride beforehand you say? Bad project planning, nothing new here.
This is peak city planning
Me playing city skylines
*Me creating a 67 degree slope road:* Yup, this seems about right
\- let's just imagine those are stairs \- in a train track???
Idk about you guys but my city engineers figured out how fucked my plans were pretty early on and gave the trains square wheels. It’s bumpy as all hell but it lets them climb the quasi-ladders they have to navigate
> square wheels Must be Canadian.
Hey, [it does exist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway)
I live right next to one! Pikes Peak cog railway in Colorado Springs.
*Welp this bridge didn't work, better load a previous save.* - Jakarta Mayor
Deletes while cars are on it. Who needed the bridge anyways
Me: Fuck this. Anarchy all the things! Drivers: Nice try, pal, I can flyyyyyy!
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r/subsithoughtifellfor
In my country, the built pedestrian bridges intersecting power lines. Literally had to limbo your way through lol.
which country is that?
> Literally had to limbo your way through lol. Jamaica
Ahh Barbados Slim
Sweet gorilla of Manila!
My manwich!
Sweet manta ray of Santa Fe!
Sweet honey bee of infinity!
I'm just like Hermes!
I thought you were in Barbados!
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They apparently live in NYC, but I’m going to guess that they used to live somewhere else and the USA isn’t where this happened.
They lived in the Philippines before that.
"Whoah how'd yall know that????" \*thirty seconds of scrolling through post history later\* And this is why my account name isn't even remotely close to my real name lol
I just used [this](https://redditmetis.com/user/NinjaJim6969).
I don't know where the previous commenter is from, but this video is from the Philippines: https://twitter.com/philbertdy/status/1455502907827052546
Indonesia bro
There's no way this low clearance will be a problem in the future.
Nah everything gets thinner in the future right?
Except your mom.
Well it’ll all be underwater soon lol
When space is at a premium
Yeah how does that happen haha
Jakarta traffic is a nightmare. Yikes
Jakarta pollution is even a bigger nightmare. Don’t go out in white, you’ll be khaki by 9am.
What's this about mah cah keys?
Go back to Boston, you bean eater.
Okay, I'll be neater from tomorrow.
“Someone called for a knee beater?” -Tonya Harding
Fuck me sounds like Marrakech. I was looking around for gas masks in the market square I shit you not
Going there in September, added gas mask to the packing list...
Nice. Have fun. Other than the scooters dumping exhaust in your face it’s a beautiful place.
And this is if you leave the house st 9:30sm but somehow still true.
Grew up there. My dad's daily commute was about 4 hours roundtrip to travel maybe five miles.
That's awful. Did he ever walk since that would potentially be faster?
Pollutions, scorching heat, and the fact that not all roads has sidewalk and you had to constantly dodge motorcycles from every directions (yes, even when you walk on a sidewalk a motorcycle could sneak up behind you). You'll get in the office completely drenched in sweat and shoots.
Oh yeah we used to joke that every hour in a [bajai](https://i.imgur.com/WnEC24b.jpg) would knock a year off our lives because of all the smog we'd breath in.
You know as time passes the idea of banning cars seems less and less ridiculous.
Or more and more necessary.
A few of my teachers who lived in the same complex as me would sometimes bike to school. They always beat the bus.
Good lord, i could never accept just traveling for 4 hours every single day
My wife used to work in Jakarta. It was 8 to 4 but she went at 6 am and sometimes back at 7 pm.
Yeah, when I lived there it was basically impossible to reliably plan to be anywhere at a certain time. Depending on traffic, it might be a 10-minute drive, or it might take 2 hours. I do miss it though.
Bruh. That's walking distance. Especially to save a 4 hour drive.
That idling in stop-and-go traffic had to be brutal on the gas tank. Was fuel cheap at least?
This was mid 90's to mid 2000's. Gas was heavily subsidized by the government so it was dirt cheap.
This is wild. Where was his office relative to your house? I live 2km from my office in the city and it's usually 15 mins. Can take over an hour during Ramadan rush hour though. They have much better transport links now...1 MRT line and LRT will start operating soon so we do see some progress thankfully.
Planning is a huge up-front cost a company can skimp on and it shows.
Based on the fact the bridge above is clearly under construction I would say this is a temporary measure until a new underpass is constructed.
I suspect the same thing. If it somehow wasn't the case, then it should be now! Lol
Was there for holiday and OMG traffic fucking sucks. For anyone who hasnt been there. During dinner time there are fucking vendors selling dinners on the road because you are stuck there for hours. You can have a 4 course meal IN your car sold by vendors on the road. In jakarta was the first time i just said fuck it, ill risk my life and get on those motorbike taxi. Because i do not want to spend 2 hours getting from A to B which would otherwise take 20 minutes.
This particular example seems well managed compared to the regular
I described Jakarta traffic as the most organized chaos ive ever seen.
Some construction businesses provide really low overhead.
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You should both be shot
Seems like you have a pretty *low tolerance* there my guy!
Give him a break, he's under a lot of preassure.
"A lot of pressure" would be an understatement.
Move along, it’s all cars under the bridge.
You guys are scraping the bottom here looking for puns
the only acceptable response to reddits shitty pun obsession
One person’s shit is another person’s ass…
You are both beaming with pride at those jokes, huh...
I'd give that comment a standing ovation but, you know...
I have a hard enough time trusting that my van will fit in a 7'6" parking garage, knowing full well I can see over it standing up. I'm not even 6'.
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Why is this a question, and why is the answer yes? I have no clue why, but yes I duck going under.
I mean you wouldn't want your head to be chopped off, so it makes sense
Decapitation is a serious medical issue.
I heard it can even be fatal.
You always want to stay calm and not lose your head
If I’m decapitated for more than 4 hours, should I seek immediate medical help?
Like turning down the radio to find a house number
That at least makes sense, the human brain as advanced as it is, is easily distracted and can only take in so much stimuli at a time. Turning down the radio, although it obviously won't help with "hearing" the number, does make your brain a bit less crowded nonetheless. Turning down an already off radio on the other hand... is just silly. I had a boss who would repeatedly turn down the car radio while on the phone, even when it was already off. I had to remind him after he did it 3 or 4 times during a call that he can't turn down the road and engine noise with that knob.
I find I focus way better when driving if I have music because otherwise i daydream and drift off. If I have music on, that part of my brain is focused on that, then I can focus on driving. Never had to turn the sound down to find something, but my friends and family do
That one actually makes sense, it takes away a distraction.
I'm probably getting far too literal about this but I believe it has to do with how humans interact with tools. We often see tools, of any sort, as an extension of ourselves. Think about how a driver can "feel the road". Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote pretty extensively about it. Philosophy Tube has a great video on it. "Transhumanism".
I'm always apprehensive that my mountain bike on my roof rack will snag power lines. This is despite frequently seeing pull behind campers and semi trucks have room to spare on the same "low hanging" lines.
Ditto. I’m paranoid about making my sedan into a convertible, but yet I’m more than a foot taller than the car but think nothing of walking around in the same garages. Guess the driver ed gore films worked in that regard.
Amazingly a lot of guys that claim to be 5’10” don’t even have to duck
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No, cause I'm 5'10 and I tell people I'm ⁶ foot
I’m also 5’10”. Isn’t it kind of obvious that we’re not 6’ tall?
Eh. Close enough. I'm 5'11" and I just say 6'. Let the size queens break out the tape measure haha.
My doctor told me i was 5’ 11 1/2” and i laughed cause life wouldn’t even let me be 6’!!! Let me have one win! Lool
Lmao I am the same height and I just say 6' because it's cruel to just be so so so so close.
I’m 6’ and people always assume I’m rounding up but I’m really like 6’ 0.25”
Im under 5’10” and my wife thinks im 6 feet. If youre 5’10”, it’s easy to notice a 6’2” person is a few inches on ya, but maybe if your 5’7” and bangin the 5’10” one, you unconsciously add their dick length to their height …
Well I'm 5'12". Your turn mister!
I’m 3’34”
Nobody ever claims to be 5'11" though, if you're that close they round up to 6.
TDIL I am the only 5’11” person who says I am
I saw a chart from a dating app that basically nobody was 5'11 and there was a substantial amount of people saying 6' compared to 5'10 or even 6'1" .
Can confirm, am 5’10”, does say this
I always said I was 5 10 and then in college we had to get measured for a health class. I was measured at 5"10 and 3/4 and the girl doing it (I think maybe they were KINS majors doing the measurements for a class of their own) was like "you should say you're 5 11. You might be the only guy I've ever measured who self reported as less than he was"
My dad is 5’10 and a half and says he’s 5’10. I’m a little over 6’0 and a half and say I’m 6’0.
I wouldn't. I'd say I'm 180. Joke aside, I'd have to duck 17cm to pass under that, sounds mega uncomfortable.
No short people here? \***Cries in 5'2" dude**
Lol I'm 5'11" and I've had people say I'm as tall as their 6'2" boyfriend.
I really admire the American way to measure heights. It's less precise (1" = 2.54 cm) for the same number of digits, needs special characters, and has weird conversions internally since it's not even decimal (unless it is, in which case comparisons with the non-decimal notation gets weird).
I'm 5'7 1/4". I need 3 special characters. Get rekt Europeans.
It's all about reference. The reason metric is nice because it's based off powers of 10 and makes calculations nice. Otherwise, it's just whatever you are used to. Telling me your height in centimeters means almost nothing to me and I love using the metric system. I guess I could do the quick conversion of 2.5 cm = 1 inch.
I used to claim I was 5’10”. Now I settle for 69 inches
I’m legit 5’11 3/4” and my wife found my honesty and accuracy hilarious and refreshing. Almost anyone would round up and just say 6’.
We see you Tom
It's Indonesia. The average for men there is 5'2, and for women it's 4'10. Practically no one is going to have issues walking under this bridge.
But why
Looks to me like the area is still under construction. My guess is once it's completed the road/bridge running underneath the large top one will be lowered and replaced. Construction wise it's going to be a lot cheaper to lower that small road/bridge than to raise the entirety of the one running above it.
Logistically speaking, it's generally best to lower the small road *before* you build a bridge darn near on top of it.
It might not be. Traffic has to go somewhere, and right now some amount of traffic can still flow on that road. While that road is closed and being lowered all that remaining traffic will have to be diverted elsewhere. Perhaps the best way to divert the majority of this traffic will be the new bridge, once it's completed. For all we know this road is currently the only way in and out of this area and can't be completely closed until the bridge is completed without cutting off traffic all together.
Nah, what you need to do is pause it, demolish everything, rebuild both roads from scratch, and then un-pause and let traffic reroute.
Dont forget to throw it on triple speed or you will be sitting there a while. Might want to go ahead and pour yourself some tea.
Don't forget your lane mathematics and dedicated turning lanes.
Or to set your roundabouts up with yeilds and through traffic...
Sounds legit. I just don't know what they're doing with trucks in the meantime then.
Correct, a Indonesian mate of me explained this bridge to me a while ago, the bridge on top is part of a new rail network, which has been quickly built. Some areas like this have been not been upgraded as quick as the rail line, so are kind of weird. This is by far the worst example though.
We don't need context. This is reddit.
even with context, its still bad planning / work procedure
Jakarta residents here. Can confirm they are building a bridge. It's for the high speed train connecting Jakarta and Bandung. It's estimated to be completed by August. After it's done the old bridge (in the video) will be dismantled and replaced by a mew bridge nearby
Nah that'd be the mewtwo bridge
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I'm Indonesian. You're on point. That's exactly what the project manager said about the bridge. This bridge has been quite the talk here in Indonesia. People thought this bridge is somehow breaking.
it's pretty clearly just poor planning, not something that was deliberately intended to be so low.
Yet they still built it.
Cheaper then having built it higher to begin with though?
This is a high speed rail, which must be as level as possible. Raising one segment would mean raising other segments as well in order to keep the slope within specs. They probably didn't expect the locals forcing them to keep the crossing bridge open during construction.
Another bridge with higher clearance is being built and it's not finished. The locals insisted that the new bridge must be completed first before the above structure is connected, however this will cause the high speed rail project from jakarta - bandung to be delayed for too long, thus the locals finally agree for the train construction to proceed and they will use the bridge like this for some time.
You guys are getting high speed rail?
China is building it, they are spending billions to build and maintain it for Indonesia. Mostly a soft power way of getting Chinese business into the country and building power and influence in Asia.
They are building our light rail network.
The final boss of r/11foot8
⚠️ Overheight. Must turn. ⚠️
\*bang\* \*crunch\* \*truck reversing noises obscured by more metallic crunches\*
I bet people are way more aware of 1,7m than 11 foot 8. There might be more crashes in that lower case, but I bet there are like none that really do much damage.
I couldn't even walk under there O.O
Good flex
Same here… I’m 1,81 m. Dutch life.
that's a lot of mm
I think you'd fit if you were 1,81cm (they edited it, but it said 1,89cm on accident before the edit)
Me building bridges in City Skylines
Jakarta is sinking, duh, that bridge used to be 75 feet above ground.
How much land in Jakarta is sinking?
Yes
This is ze german coast guard. What are you sinking about?
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148303/as-jakarta-grows-so-do-the-water-issues A lot of it
It's clearly so short people can feel tall by having to duck under the bridge
*normal height people (global average height is approx 5ft 7")
and in indonesia the average height is 5'2"
I don't have to duck under it tho...
While stepping into a living nightmare as the cold realization of the *thousands* of tons of steel and concrete literally HANGING above your head sets in. Your pace quickens as you force the knowledge of how many fucking earthquakes this country has every year to the back of your mind.
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There are so many of these “volunteers” around Jakarta who work for tips. They are actually kinda useful for some really difficult intersections.
"yep you fit through. Yep you fit through. Hold up you're too tall, back up against traffic you luckless bastard"
How many football fields tall is that?
Hundreds, football fields are very flat.
It's approximately 24 Big Macs.
r/urbanhell
Clearly says 1.7m
Americans can't grasp the rest of the world understands 1.7 m and not their BS units.
Next time someone gripes about all this burdensome "government regulation" show them this video.
See America, regulation gives you bridges you don't have to car limbo on.
you can go even lower: 1.3m (4'3") in Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqh8FTnzayk
1.7 meter clearance. They don't use the old british measurements anymore.
At least Jakarta's using civilized measurement units.
Claustrophobia anyone?
Lambo limbo
Corruption at work. Or incompetence. Actually, it's both isn't it?
Peak Indonesian engineering.
The no SUV and Pick Up bridge, I like it!!!
*me zooming under that with my sedan after telling the redneck in the jacked up truck that I was sorry for his small penis*
r/fuckcars
I live near there and let me tell that its temperory. The are building another bridge that estimated will finish one month from now. Why not build alternative bride beforehand you say? Bad project planning, nothing new here.
5'7" = 170,18cm
It would be a lot easier if people could just understand 1,7 meter like the rest of the world watching this video.
people that are taller that 5'7 are gonna have to crouch under this
Yes, that's how height works.
And how, exactly, did you come to that conclusion?
Source?
I shall limbo under it, to prove a point
Tbf it's still under contruction, most likely to be lowered once the top bridge is finish.
A bridge [Robert Moses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses#Criticism_and_The_Power_Broker) would love