LOLZ

The latest funny planning revelation to be reported on in China is this housing block in to the middle of a 8 lane highway.

Some how officials were forced to cut a motorway in half to go around a block of flats after they accidentally erected the building in its proposed path then realised it would cost too much to relocate the tenants. Oops.

The block of residents in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, were uprooted to make room for a soon-to-be-constructed Daming National Heritage Park. In exchange for the inconvenience, tenants were promised a brand new, block of modern apartments. Just too bad city planners forgot about that little eight-lane superhighway they were going to build in the exact same place. Eh, okay then... It appears that they had misjudged exactly how many apartments they would need and crammed as many in the vacant black as possible.

In spite of the weird looking positioning the residents got on well for a few months until council came round again and asked them to move out their new homes with no compensation. So the tenant refused to move and now they are in the middle of a super highway. (Actually, I'm using the word 'super' incorrectly here, no amount of road construction can counter the retarded traffic in China.)

I sometimes like reading snippets of blunders like this, there is no end of stories about things being built around gravestones because or people living in half demolished houses. It all goes a way to make the notion of China taking over the world even more surprising when it happens.