‘Cracks appear in Tehran metro line two’
Published on Aug 15th, 2009 by internetcont in Press with
Reports say cracks have appeared in line two of the Tehran metro, which passes above the Iranian capital’s under-construction Tohid tunnel.
Head of Tehran City Council’s Technical Development Commission Hamzeh Shakib announced the news saying that the cracks are only one meter from the tunnel.
Shakib also referred to the Sunday Tohid tunnel collapse, criticizing Tehran municipality officials for not paying enough attention to the construction project.
A section of Tohid tunnel at the junction of Navvab motorway and Kalhor Street in central Tehran collapsed on Sunday, leaving one person dead and five others injured.
Managing director of Tehran Municipality’s Engineering and Development Organization Mas’ud Nasr-Azadani later announced that the incident was caused by a nearby qanat and was unrelated to the under-construction Tohid tunnel.
“What the municipality officials claim is irritating,” ILNA quoted Shakib as saying.
“Officials should study in detail every project that they undertake.”
“Tehran City Council warned the municipality about the cracks three months ago, but there has not been any response yet,” said Shakib.
“We should have predicted the qanat subsidence in order to protect the workers,” he added criticizing head of the Tohid tunnel project for sacrificing quality for faster construction.
This is while Tehran deputy mayor for technical and constructional affairs and head of Tohid tunnel project Ahmad Donyamali rejects the claims made by Shakib saying that the cracks are unrelated to the tunnel.
“You can see many cracks in even an ordinary building,” he said, adding, “We are measuring the cracks to provide a full report on the issue.”
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