Truck was 鈥榮ignificantly overloaded鈥
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THE truck which severely damaged a section of the Middle Ring Road yesterday was “significantly overloaded,” said Li Jun, vice chief of Shanghai Road Administration Bureau.
“No truck with a load capacity of over 55 tons is allowed on the city’s elevated roads, not to say the Middle Ring Road was designed to transport only cars and buses,” he told a press conference yesterday.
The truck was loaded with about 100 tons of precast tubular piles, he said.
Li said measures to temporarily shut down parts of the Middle Ring Road and streets underneath were necessary because the damaged section posed “a certain degree of danger” to the traffic below.
A repairs plan has been worked out, he said.
As the vehicle and cargo were cleared from the elevated road, a team embarked on a thorough appraisal of the damage to the section and the columns supporting it while the damaged section was secured with steel cables, pipes and jacks.
The section will be put back in place and rested on new piers to replace those that suffered damage, while the surface of the road will also be repaired.
“Traffic will be reopened only when we confirm that the beam and the piers have no structural problems,” Li said.
The road administration bureau carried out annual technical checks on elevated roads, he added, to make sure that they don’t pose a danger to traffic.
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