17 punished for faults in costly new highway
By Leeann Li |
August 15, 2012, Wednesday
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SEVENTEEN people responsible for an expensive but problem-prone highway in the northwestern Gansu Province have been punished, Gansu Provincial Transportation Bureau said yesterday.
Officials said on Monday that Tianding Highway, built at a cost of 8.75 billion yuan (US$1.38 billion), has shown signs of cracks and subsiding again, one year after a major overhaul.
The bureau, heavily criticized on the Internet, yesterday published how those responsible were punished.
Five employees of the project's contractor, Xi'an Mengxing Co; five from the project's supervisor, the Gansu Transportation Research Institute Co Ltd, and seven officials with Gansu Provincial Transportation Bureau were demoted or sacked, according to the bureau's announcement.
Xi'an Mengxing Co was banned from bidding on highway projects in the province for three years and the Gansu Transportation Research Institute Co Ltd was fined 1 million yuan (US$157,300).
Ai Yude, Party discipline official with the bureau, said a 31-kilometer-section of the total 235-kilometer highway had problems last year, including cracks and potholes in the pavement, Xinhua news agency reported.
Authorities found the damage in late June in 2011, less than one month after it opened to the public and ordered the contractor to pay for the 120-million-yuan overhaul, Ai added.
Tan Yingpeng, an official with the bureau, earlier had blamed the problem on lax quality control during construction and bad weather.
Officials said on Monday that Tianding Highway, built at a cost of 8.75 billion yuan (US$1.38 billion), has shown signs of cracks and subsiding again, one year after a major overhaul.
The bureau, heavily criticized on the Internet, yesterday published how those responsible were punished.
Five employees of the project's contractor, Xi'an Mengxing Co; five from the project's supervisor, the Gansu Transportation Research Institute Co Ltd, and seven officials with Gansu Provincial Transportation Bureau were demoted or sacked, according to the bureau's announcement.
Xi'an Mengxing Co was banned from bidding on highway projects in the province for three years and the Gansu Transportation Research Institute Co Ltd was fined 1 million yuan (US$157,300).
Ai Yude, Party discipline official with the bureau, said a 31-kilometer-section of the total 235-kilometer highway had problems last year, including cracks and potholes in the pavement, Xinhua news agency reported.
Authorities found the damage in late June in 2011, less than one month after it opened to the public and ordered the contractor to pay for the 120-million-yuan overhaul, Ai added.
Tan Yingpeng, an official with the bureau, earlier had blamed the problem on lax quality control during construction and bad weather.
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