All built by the Mafia ?
And to think, we were considering renting a car and driving from Rome to Pompeii.
How can anyone feel safe driving there? ........................... Been there, its 2nd only to Boston.
Actually it kind of screams corruption and mafia based construction firms
Actually it kind of screams corruption and mafia based construction firms
Another socialist Utopia.
The notion that concrete can be corrupted by cutting the cement content is scary. Concrete mix designs are tested. And, in North America anyway, samples of concrete are taken and tested at regular intervals for major concrete projects. The only way to corrupt this system is to get to the technicians taking and managing the samples. I guess that is not hard to imagine in Italy.
Ancient Roman structures still stand. Aqueducts still work. Modern socialists build garbage.
It’s not safe driving there, even without bridges...................
10 in the US since 2013.
I-5 at the Skatit River in Washington State
Highway in Scott City, MO
Overpass over I-75 in Ohio
Pennsy Bridge, Pennsylvania
I-10 Southern California
Bob White Bridge, VA
Pfeiffer Canyon Bride, California
I-85 Atlanta
Florida International Bridge
Of course, a couple of those were during demolition operations when they came down a lot faster than planned.
Italian drivers are a far bigger danger than bridges!
Another reminder that America is the imperfect surrounded by the atrocious.
Worked with a young guy 3 years ago who was doing a rotation here in states from Italy. He said no young person stays there. Corruption, high crime & taxes & no hope for a better life. We talked a lot about his dissapointment in his country. Seems most young Italians are fairly conservative
Italy’s spent their extra money on ‘illegals’... they don’t have cash to keep bridges safe.
We’ve had 9 in the last 5 years too. Bridges collapse, it’s an imperfect world.
There was a thread here last year, I think, about the lowering of standards in engineering schools so they could attract more gays, minorities etc.
I love driving there. I would not want to now.
It’s certainly ridiculous given the number of toll roads!
The Bay Bridge in San Francisco I bet will collapse in the next earthquake.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/30/structural-work-on-bay-bridge-complete-but-questions-remain-about-subpar-steel/
Excerpt: bringing to a close a long saga of construction delays and complications that pushed the opening of the bridge 10 years behind schedule and more than $5 billion over budget.
The $6.5 billion span stretching from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island started carrying passengers in September 2013, a few months after engineers tightened 96 steel bolts intended to stabilize the bridge during an earthquake and found that 32 of those rods were brittle and cracked.
A subsequent investigation revealed that the botched grouting had allowed water to seep into the tower’s foundation, making the more than 400 anchor rods at risk of corrosion. It didn’t help that the threads on a few of the rods were stripped, further weakening them.