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Infraestructures - China - Overloaded trucks force tunnel repairs
Shanghai,China -The Shanghai Daily, by Zhang Jun -25 July 2006: -- The city's Outer Ring Road Tunnel will undergo a complete renovation only three years after it opens as many of its roads have been ruined by overloaded trucks, officials said yesterday... Tunnel managers complained the city lacks any system to control the number of vehicles that use the tunnel every day, or keep overloaded trucks out of it. "The tunnel is free and we don't have a regular team to check its users," said Dong Hui, an official with the Shanghai Engineering Administrative Bureau... She said the city does have a law covering overloaded trucks - which forces drivers to unload cargo immediately and could see vehicle owners fined up to 30,000 yuan (US$3,750)... There is no permanent system in place to check on trucks before they enter the tunnel, however. Currently, more than 80,000 vehicles use the tunnel every day, about four times more than three years ago when it was put into use...
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