Where's the fault, or, Not a Survey Problem!

Looks photo-shopped. The guide rail is blurry on the left hand side and the center line is split almost too perfectly.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html

Photo No. 36

Wow. That's insane. It is split in two directly between what look like double yellows.

Here's one about 60 miles from me:

US Highway 89

My guess would be that's the line between cut & fill.

Vertical curve program gone wrong?

"Tear on the dotted line!"

Yup.
Gotta be the perfect half bench.

I was thinking a utility right on centerline. It would be the sewer main in this area.

I'll be someone finds a way to blame the surveyor

I would guess they built half the road at a time, keeping the other lane open for traffic. We have done that before but with better results.;-)

James

Look at the bottom of the picture, especially along the white line on the bottom left. There is a misaligned portion of another image, which does make me wonder about some sort of image manipulation? Could very well be the road was built in halves and cleaved off at the seam between the two sections though. Bizarre!!

I think that Dave Ingram has it. If you look at the cross slope of the right of way you can see that there is a break at the cut/fill line.

I don't agree that the white stripe in the bottom left corner is another image, I believe it's the fog line of the buckled pavement closer to the camera view point.

Dtp

Where's the fault, - Youtube videos.

> I ran across this photo and would love to know the rest of the story!
>

In todays day and age youtube always has the rest of the story.;-)

Don,

Look all the way across the bottom of the frame and you will see that the open "trench" isn't visible below where the photo seam is apparent. There are images spliced together for sure, and not very well along that seam.

I find it hard to believe that the ground split along the yellow line.

I still believe that is the buckled pavement at, or near the horizon line of the camera.

Dtp

> I find it hard to believe that the ground split along the yellow line.

The ground didn't split along the yellow line; of all the millions of miles of road striping on the earth, these 200 feet were coincidently painted at a place where the ground was likely to split given the proper forces.

No matter how random you think the world is, it's more random than that 😉

I'm just glad they are wearing hardhats, cause you know, lots of overhead issues there..