In Italy, the bridge is, literally, falling down
Thousands of bridges, built decades ago and in dangerous terrain, are starting to feel the pressure, and then there’s all that red tape...
08 March 2020 - 08:24
Milan/Rome — Placido Migliorino has spent the past year on a mission to keep his fellow Italians out of danger.
The engineer’s job at the transport ministry is to roam the country checking highway bridges are as safe as their privately run operators say they are after the collapse of one in Genoa in August 2018 killed 43 people. He’s inspected more than 200, scaling the structures with special ladders and in lifts, and concluded that at least four ought to be closed or banned to heavy trucks...
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