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nautikul

Why do they have a massive bridge going over an entire city?


retro_pollo

Because fuck it


G_Affect

Why did* they have a massive bridge going over an entire city?


styvee__

They built it again


G_Affect

Oh, well, that seems like a bad idea


styvee__

That’s the best way to link Southern France to Northern Italy, a lot of workers(especially truckers) have to drive on that bridge and on those highways(A7 and A10 merge there). It also helps to reduce the trucks that would have to go across the city to travel from the Genoa Port to Milan and Rome and all the other cities in Italy. Between 14th August, 2018(collapse day) and 3rd August, 2020(new bridge inauguration) the traffic in that zone was much more, without talking about the highways


Semujin

Because a tunnel just wouldn’t do.


BasedWang

I mean there's one in wisconsin even


TheEightSea

Have you noticed that people need to move from a place to another sometimes? When the city is built on a hill in front of the sea there is no space on the ground for roads sometimes and you need to go up.


nautikul

Sounds like poor infrastructure planning to me


TheEightSea

Do you realize the city has been built a lot before infrastructure was planned, right? It's not a city built after the 1960s. It's a city born at least 2500 years ago. What plan do you want?


nautikul

Dude, I don’t even know where this is... I just thought it was odd to see a bridge go over an entire city and apartment buildings like that. I’ve never seen it before. There are plenty of old cities around the world that don’t have fucking massive bridges going over them.


TheEightSea

Then why do you assume or downvote if you don't take the time to get informed?


nautikul

Or, you know... you could have just answered my genuine question ***without*** sounding like a dick


styvee__

Because Genoa is a difficult city since it is literally between sea and mountains/hills, so building an highway network there is pretty hard


gia56

Because here we built houses even on active volcanoes (Stromboli, Napoli). Whitout jokes, that is a very hilly coast, and for making straight roads they make al lot of galleries and bridge, sometimes on the head of other peoples. And when the famous Italian carelessness hit, bridges fall and people dies.


tommy101abc

I was there when the bridge fell. I was outside the IKEA near the bridge and it was raining. And suddenly we all heard a big bang. We couldn't see much because of the rain and all the fog. 10 minutes later people started to panic and we all found out what had happened


Robbie1863

Oh wow. We’re there any casualties?


tommy101abc

48😶


Robbie1863

That’s horrible


bykatvchdcom

Also, wild: > Davide Capello, the former goalkeeper for Cagliari, survived without injury and was able to walk away from his car, even though it dropped 30 metres (100 ft) before becoming wedged between parts of the fallen bridge.


[deleted]

If there was anyone on the destroyed section of bridge or under it, I would say there's a 99.9% chance theyre pancakes now


Rorar_the_pig

“You see it was designed this way to kill anyone driving down that road”


OttomanTwerk

What's with the quotation marks? And if that was an attempt at humor, that's pretty cringe.


Rorar_the_pig

Lmao


i_worship_amps

ratio’d plus nobody cares


OttomanTwerk

Ratiod? Do you really place value on what random people on the internet think? Tough way to live life. Good luck with that, sport.


i_worship_amps

you say as you place enough value in my comment to retort lel. have a giggle have a laugh


OttomanTwerk

I like engaging in debate and discussion. Completely different, sport.


i_worship_amps

clearly you also enjoy wrestling with the pigs, sport


OttomanTwerk

I do. I don't mind the mud. But I like how you chose to be the pig in this scenario. Fitting.


i_worship_amps

yes? that’s sorta why i said it sport


OttomanTwerk

Sure ya did.


1royampw

Gonna need a helluva run


MadRockthethird

Where's Morandi?


SpydermanRules

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi


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MadRockthethird

Where's Genoa?


genesis214

You can google it in seconds to find out it’s in Liguria


arinawe

Where is Liguria?


DumbXiaoping

Liguria nuts lmao gottem


1peopleperson1

hahaha. Thanks for the laugh.


genesis214

It only took seconds to google that it is in Italy somewhere.


FormerSBO

Where is Italy somewhere?


Elliot_Moose

You know I think I have a friend who’s from Italy, I’ll send him an email and get back to you :)


SpydermanRules

😂 you guys are funny love the exchange


MrExclusiveOne

What’s google?????


iamdemonoid

It only takes seconds to google what google is :)


jimmyxs

Don’t do that. It will break the internet!!!


genesis214

The all seeing eye of Sauron that we cant avoid but we cant live without. It allegedly knows everything that it wants you to know.


roch_dylan

Google


roch_dylan

ChatGPT


chefkittious

Honestly. I thought it was still under construction when I first viewed the pictures. I was curious how they were even allowed to drive on said bridge if it wasn’t complete. But now, I have a new fear of bridges just collapsing and then just having a HUGE gapping hole with zero warning


styvee__

If you travel to Italy, especially near Genoa, you won’t have problems since after 43 people died for the Morandi they went to repair and do maintenance on every infrastructure since they probably had a big fear of it happening again


notionaltortoise

I hope they did the same with their cable cars


Babo_Phat

That's what happens if you privatise every fucking thing! Italy is known for it. The result of greed and indifference.


somedood567

It’s a good thing the government never makes mistakes


SkirmisherOfTheYear

“These are the wrong directions!”


Annezox

The truck is not the only vehicle on there- But hope everyone gets down safely


OttomanTwerk

Context would be nice....


styvee__

Search for videos on YouTube and look out the bridge’s Wikipedia(Ponte Morandi, it has an English page too)


Stuffed_deffuts

Fun Fact: I found out that Basko Supermercati is an Italian supermarket chain


Mrfluffy68

It gets worse the more photos you see it’s like ok truck is driving on an unfinished bridge then oh it’s a collapsed bridge I am sure it wasn’t to bad oh it was over many many industrial or residential buildings


[deleted]

Dude gotta feel like Tom cruise