Didn’t they spend hundreds of millions on some sort of floating water abatement system that was supposed to stop this? I guess it didn’t work too well.
No, it was never started/never finished/perpetually in the process of being funded etc.. Then the mafia ahem, uh, appropriated some of the funding. It ain’t happening.
I was there 3 months ago.
The only thing which looked new were gondola-boat docks.
Some of the smaller bridges looked newer probably because the bridge was no longer high enough.
Rialto Bridge definitely looked newer but probably just repairs