1200 workers in Japan finished in a few hours the Toyoko Line Shibuya Station | Tokyo
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1,200 Japanese workers convert above-ground train to subway line in a matter of hours On March 15, 2013, the Shibuya Station Toyoko Line above-ground train quietly shut down for good, to be replaced with a new section of subway track connecting Shibuya Station and the nearby Daikanyama Station. Converting the line from above-ground to underground was a massive operation, requiring a grand total of 1,200 engineers and countless man-hours. But, even if you’d been living in Tokyo at the time, you probably wouldn’t have noticed the construction, because it all occurred during the train line’s off-hours… over the course of one single night. In just one night, Tokyu Railways put their proprietary, somewhat clunkily named STRUM (Shifting Track Right Under Method) tech to the test, mobilizing all 1,200 engineers at once to slowly lower the existing tracks along a pre-built incline to connect it with the subway tracks below. Building the incline required holding the tracks up on temporary scaffolding as the company dug out the earth below, which kind of makes us doubly glad the method held up. In all, with the Tokyu railway’s last train arriving at the Shibuya Station at 1:00 am, and the first train the following morning departing at around 5:00 am, the army of engineers had a vanishingly short four hours to put everything in place and send a few trains on a test run before morning commuters arrived. It’s almost a miracle that everything went smoothly, as with so many boots on the ground and such a short time to accomplish the task, it must have been a logistical nightmare; each engineer required to know exactly which bolt they were in charge of turning. Thanks to Tokyu’s incredible organization and the commendable teamwork of the engineers, the new section of track from Shibuya to Daikanyama was ready to roll overnight, giving us a renewed respect for Japanese engineering.
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We in the US (and Canada, as well as Australia) work best in groups with less than a hundred or so workers. If we organize ourselves as a series of small teams that compete with one another while keeping the groups separate, we are as proficient as anyone. We also work best when we are not working for the government (outside of combat soldiers). And, yes, cultures are different whether we like it or not, and work differently. Go to various nations and watch construction work to see how true this actually is.
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Righteous.
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Imagine if we had this stronghold in London for a month, what could they fix, haha :) Thinking about it just makes me wander
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JAPAN STRONG
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the human ants
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Holy shit
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This is what a homogeneous and nationalistic society can achieve.
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you should see & admire japanese, korean, taiwanese, chinese & singaporean work ethics.
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They are perfect in doing something
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In Slovakia it takes 12 years and 5 miliard Euros to build 1 kilometer of motherfucking higway
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暇は 劇薬から来ました
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they got time to do testing! holly shit
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i swear you could sign up for this and get away with doing nothing for a a paycheck, im sure someone does it
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in the States it takes.......0 why? cause we dont ride no stinkin train what are we peasants? murica we all have cars fuck yeah suck ma american balls world we will take your oil n give u freedom!! murica fuck yeah.....and so on.....seriously we do not have efficient nor reliable public transportation, hence our freeways are crowded yay.....
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do Japanese communicate like ants using telepathy
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meanwhile in indonesia from the independence day till now,its still not done yet
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コメント欄に日本人があまりいないのね。
日本人こそ彼らを称えるべきなのに。いつもすばらしい技術をありがとう。 -
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Please Japan.
Do not attack Pearl Harbor again.
The shambolic Americans are not well prepared for Japanese efficiency.
The Japs missed a few ships that time.
The well-organized Japanese might well sink ALL the American ships this time. -
They planned this project for 8 years and did it for a few hours.