Suspension bridge collapses in Italy

Mook

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Fucking insane.

Genova, crolla il ponte Morandi dell'autostrada A10. Decine di vittime

Bridge before -

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Some of those bridges listed as deficient aren't just big bridges, but even simple ones on main arteries. I was reading up on a Kane County project about rehabbing a section of Kirk Road from Cherry Lane (by Elfstrom Stadium), up to 38, which has 2 spans of bridges, one over a couple of businesses, then one over the UP west line. It's amazing how much damage these structures suffer from wear/tear and environmental. They had a whole presentation with every crack detailed.
 

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damn RIP. sounds like the bridge may have been in bad shape though

Antonio Brencich, an engineer and associate professor of reinforced concrete constructions at the University of Genoa, expressed concern about the bridge's safety back in 2016.

In an interview released with La Repubblica after the Morandi Bridge collapsed, he said the bridge was "constantly undergoing maintenance."

"It was affected by serious corrosion problems related to the technology that Morandi himself had patented, which he had not used anymore, and which proved to be disastrous."
 

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I was just talking about this with someone this morning. The infrastructure in this country is a joke and I'm surprised we don't see more incidents like this bridge collapse here in this country.

We have millions of people in our prison system just sitting in rooms doing nothing costing taxpayers on average about 60K a year that could be put to work to build it up.
 

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I was just talking about this with someone this morning. The infrastructure in this country is a joke and I'm surprised we don't see more incidents like this bridge collapse here in this country.

We have millions of people in our prison system just sitting in rooms doing nothing costing taxpayers on average about 60K a year that could be put to work to build it up.

One of the big platforms :trump: ran on, improving our crumbling and outdated infrastructure. So far he hasn’t done shit about it, which isn’t all too surprising.

Also, most prison workers do already work, doing menial jobs. Hard to do work release programs to repair bridges...there has to be some skill level to build them...it’s not like digging ditches on a chain gang
 
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