工程師錯將橋面安反 智利首個吊橋不得不推遲交付
Chilean engineers have been left red faced by a delay in the grand opening of the country's first-ever drawbridge - after they discovered a major part was installed upside down.
The $30million Cau Cau bridge was supposed to open this month as an instant landmark connecting Valdivia, a coastal city in the south of Chile, with the adjacent Teja Island.
But no one will be travelling across for a while, after builders realised at least one traffic deck had been installed upside down.
It's a national embarrassment for the prosperous South American country.
But its president, Sebastián Piñera, is blaming Spanish developers for the mistake.
'It can be fixed, ... and it will be fixed by the company that made the mistake,' fumed President Piñera.
Public Works Minister Loreto Silva added: 'The only responsible party is the builder. We are going to make them answer for this'
The bridge has ended up a laughing stock among Chilean social media users, who are wondering how construction workers managed to mess up something as seemingly clear as up and down.
One wag tweeted a scrawly child's picture of a bridge, rendered in coloured pencil, with the quip: 'Leak of the installation plans for the Cau Cau bridge in Valdivia.'
The mistake emerged when inspectors getting ready for opening day found that either one or two of the traffic decks were installed backwards, authorities said.
Azvi, the Spanish infrastructure company behind the bridge development, did not immediately comment. A new opening date has not been announced.
Valdivia, which is 520 miles south of Chile's sprawling capital Santiago, is home to about 125,000 people.據英國《每日郵報》網站1月9日報道，智利工程師發現即將啓用的該國首座吊橋的一邊橋面居然是上下顛倒的，由此引發的推遲交付讓他們感到非常尷尬。
這座價值3000萬美金的吊橋原計劃本月作爲連接智利南部海濱城市瓦爾迪維亞的地標建築正式啓用。但是建築師們發現至少其中一邊橋面的安裝完全上下顛倒後，於是大橋在短期內無法向公衆開放。
這場事故讓智利這個正在蓬勃發展的南美國家蒙羞。智利總統塞巴斯蒂安·皮涅拉將這個錯誤歸咎於西班牙開發商， 他憤怒的說：“這個問題可以被修補……而且它將被犯了這個錯誤的公司實施修補。”
智利公共作業部長Loreto Silva說：“唯一應該對此事負責的人就是建橋的人。我們將確保他們會給出合適的答案。”
這座吊橋也成爲了智利社交網站用戶們的笑料。他們說無法理解這些建築工人們到底是出了什麼亂子，以至於橋明顯安裝反了，而這些施工的人卻沒有察覺到。一個網友很幽默的將一個小朋友的鉛筆畫放在自己的推特賬戶中並且說：“吊橋的安裝計劃就是這麼泄露的”。另外一張貼圖是一座小橋在一個度假村的水池的上面，評論說“把吊橋做反了的人成爲了這個項目的中標人。”
作爲工程的開發商，西班牙建築公司Azvi並沒有第一時間對這個問題進行回覆，也沒有公佈新的大橋開通日期。
