[timmac]

Here is a pic of a famous photo on the news just hours after quake in Japan, but now its been rebuilt and looks as if nothing has happened and they did it in 6 days..

With all that they got hit with [mega quake, tsunami, nuke plant melt down] and they are already on the road to being rebuilt, why can't we have this here in America, New Orleans is still without neighborhoods and infrastructure in certain areas.

Maybe we need to outsource our gobberment to Japan so things can get done without millions of $$ of overcost and a faster efficient speed.. What has happened to this once great nation.. [America]

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[Lore]

This was on NBC nightly news tonight. In the US that would have been a project taking 3 months. Although such a time frame is about the usual for us as far back as I can remember.

Those thinking that Japan was going to have a time out and wouldn't be utilizing fossil fuels for a while are in for a surprise.

[americandream]

Dunno bout the road building, but they finally have deployed radiation robots in Fukushima. Lets hope they get it sorted out soon. The roads can wait. They wont be much use if everyone is glowing green. Priorities:

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[PrestonSturges]

After 10 years, Ground Zero is still a hole in the ground. The mosque probably would not have attracted so much attention if the WTC had been rebuilt.

[americandream]

After 10 years, Ground Zero is still a hole in the ground. The mosque probably would not have attracted so much attention if the WTC had been rebuilt.

Theres big money to be made in Japan. In fact, it's an investors wet dream. Most investor financing is in Asia in any event. Private money tends to get a better speculator hit over there. There just isn't the money around in the West for many projects as hefty Western tax coffers render private funding unnecessary and better used elsewhere.

[dolanbaker]

That particular section of road looks like it had a simple bit of subsidance, no big deal, if a similar thing had happened in many other advanced countries it would have been fixed just as quickly.

The only real difference here is the fact that the Japanese had many similar incidents to deal with at the same time.

[nobodypanic]

how do i know someone just didn't get a before/after pic confused w/respect to the sequence of the photos?

[dolanbaker]

how do i know someone just didn't get a before/after pic confused w/respect to the sequence of the photos?

Simple, you can see the reinstated embankment on the right and the whole road surface is brandnew and of a slightly different construction of the original, the kerb was concrete in the before picture and tarmac in the second.

[AgentR11]

With all that they got hit with [mega quake, tsunami, nuke plant melt down] and they are already on the road to being rebuilt, why can't we have this here in America, New Orleans is still without neighborhoods and infrastructure in certain areas.

1st off; New Orleans should have just been abandoned. Nature wants it back, and will get it back soon enough no matter what we do. Rebuilding it makes as much sense as standing in the ocean and demanding the tide to stop.

The locations in Japan that were destroyed are the appropriate places for people to live; and its not like Japan is just overflowing with massive amounts of flat, town-sized areas to put houses and businesses in (unlike the US.) Wherever nature put the flat spots in Japan; thats where the people have to build their farms and towns; that many of those spots are subject to earthquake, tsunami, and/or typhoon its just what you have to accept to live in Japan. When a country finds it economically viable to build a giant flat spot in the middle of a bay, you know you're dealing with a different kettle of fish altogether.

So the town locations are good (if not poisoned), and certainly no one is going to get in the way of private money building stuff; so the situation in general is just very different, and proceeding as you might expect. I recall a really mangled, but important highway in CA that got hosed by an earthquake; the government yelled "EMERGENCY", removed all its slowdown processes, and it got put back in service FAST. Maybe it wasn't the best fix possible; maybe it did more environmental damage that really necessary; but we can do stuff fast here too, when we find it really worthwhile.