Lesson learned: Don’t build public transit on quicksand

Building a metro station under a busy road and on top of an underground quicksand pit turns out to be a bad idea.

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We’re all for expanding public transportation infrastructure. But building a metro station under a busy road and on top of an underground quicksand pit turns out to be a bad idea, as they learned in Nanjing when the station collapsed and a bus fell through the road.

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Watch them take it out:

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According to the Shanghai Daily, no one was hurt.

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