[William May]

Originally Posted by carnazza ↗

The bridge was built in 1967, at that time not all the cars and trucks of today passed through...
Unfortunately in Italy we always want to conserve and never rebuild, and i say this as Italian....

They also said it had been carrying 60,000 vehicles every day for the last 50 years, so that is a LOT of wear and tear.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by pervM ↗

Apparently the bridge had maintenance two years ago. This makes you wonder how efficient that maintenance really was or if they cut corners somewhere and therefore are the ones to blame for this.

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I just watched an interview with an Italian woman who watched the bridge collapse, and she said the large support just "disappeared like it was made of flour", which would indicate to me that the concrete was bad. I also saw pics taken a while back, showing deteriorated areas under the bridge. I could not see if it was rust, or just bad concrete, but it obviously attracted attention from the people looking at the bridge, as the damaged areas were circled. I assume the pics were taken during monitoring of the bridge sometime in the past.

It was an expensive bridge when it came to maintenance and also the architect used concrete cabels for the bridge support instead of steel ones that are stronger and last longer.

People already warned the city of the poor state of the bridge. first pic is of two weeks before the accident and the second from February so they did a lousy job on the maintenance. Also the mayor told the bridge was monitored more as other bridges so i guess someone that had to check the bridge was a moron doing his job.

[carnazza]

That when it was done there was the hand of the mafia is obvious...
And now that he was being managed by the Benetton family, we can say that it is the same.....

[SimoneFlen']

2 of the deceased:


Matteo Bertonati





Stella Boccia (aged 23)

[b0g]

I heard several months ago a report was made asking for maintenance soon. btw i did not know the bridge was from 67 ...

[kellyhound]

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