Mountains sliced in half for Chinese highway - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

Mountains sliced in half for Chinese highway.




Previously:

Rocky Mountains toposcope - photos
Shanghai apartment complex surrounded by mountains - GIF
1951 highway construction - GIF
Bamboo for highway construction - GIF

[Saltfever]

Typically, a cut has a fill-area near by. There is no area along the entire highway that shows any earth fill!

[ductape]

China has been building islands south of the mainland for quite a while. It's possible that the spoil was used for that operation.

[Saltfever]

China has been building islands south of the mainland for quite a while. It's possible that the spoil was used for that operation.

That would be the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. I believe that work is done by local dredging. Dirt transportation costs would be prohibitive...even for China! :-)

[Duke_of_URL]

It looks like an Engineering School "concept" for road construction, rendered using A.I.
I suspect tunnels to be cheaper, material removal less burdensome, and in the long run cheaper to maintain over time. But hey, what do I know?

[Hoosiersmoker]

Why is there no advertising plastered all along those faces?