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NINE bridges in Italy have collapsed in five years. How can anyone feel safe driving there?
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 16, 2018 | Tobias Jones

Posted on 08/16/2018 7:10:47 AM PDT by C19fan

Just a few months ago, I was hurrying to a meeting in Genoa. As I came out of Brin metro station and skirted along the footpath overlooking the Polcevera valley, I was suddenly confronted by the Morandi Bridge.

It wasn't just the scale of the concrete monstrosity – almost a mile long – that shocked me, but the setting.

Chaotic urban development covered every inch of the valley – dozens of railway lines, blocks of flats, an endless tangle of warehouses and roads. It was far removed from what the Italians call 'a misura d'uomo' – shaped for mankind. Instead, it screamed hubris.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: infrastructure; italy
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To: C19fan

Italian drivers are a far bigger danger than bridges!


21 posted on 08/16/2018 7:56:00 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: cld51860

And to think, we were considering renting a car and driving from Rome to Pompeii.

Thats an easy short beautiful drive. There are parts that are less beautiful. But I would do it again to see Pompeii. One of the most interesting places I have ever been. Pompeii has real ruins others are often rebuilt.


22 posted on 08/16/2018 7:58:03 AM PDT by poinq
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To: C19fan

Another reminder that America is the imperfect surrounded by the atrocious.


23 posted on 08/16/2018 8:00:45 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Hmmm)
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To: FreedomPoster

There’s no need or want to drive in Rome. A good pair of shoes is all you need. Agree about driving in Tuscany, and add Abruzzo, my favorite provinces.


24 posted on 08/16/2018 8:03:16 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Hmmm)
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To: fella

The union bosses undoubtedly get a cut of the profits that should go to the workers’ pensions, but it is not the union who supplies the shoddy materials. That is the contractors’ responsibility.


25 posted on 08/16/2018 8:05:31 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: from occupied ga
Actually it kind of screams corruption and mafia based construction firms

To me is screams a bloated welfare system where they pay people to do nothing productive and in the process ignore maintenance of infrastructure.

That bridge held together for 50 years and from the looks of it a couple weeks before had not had any maintenance in all of that time.

Any US bridge that had been ignored for 50 years would be dangerous as well.

26 posted on 08/16/2018 8:07:40 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: C19fan

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


27 posted on 08/16/2018 8:07:48 AM PDT by 4everontheRight (And the story began with..."Once there was a great nation......)
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To: PAR35

US probably has many more bridges though,


28 posted on 08/16/2018 8:10:29 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: C19fan

Italy’s spent their extra money on ‘illegals’... they don’t have cash to keep bridges safe.


29 posted on 08/16/2018 8:14:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (August 16 - NATIONAL "CANCEL YOUR NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION" DAY)
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To: C19fan

We’ve had 9 in the last 5 years too. Bridges collapse, it’s an imperfect world.


30 posted on 08/16/2018 8:16:32 AM PDT by discostu (Every gun makes its own tune.)
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To: PAR35
10 in the US since 2013.

A bit of scale difference as well. Italy looks to be not much bigger than Florida:


31 posted on 08/16/2018 8:16:45 AM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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To: Red Badger

There used to be border guards on the German-Czech border. We rented a Beemer and they wouldn’t let us drive it into Czech.


32 posted on 08/16/2018 8:22:03 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: gr8eman

But if you had rented a tank, they would.................


33 posted on 08/16/2018 8:25:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: Bonemaker

[whine] Yeah, but it was all built by slaves...[/whine]


34 posted on 08/16/2018 8:35:39 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: Bonemaker
Ancient Roman structures still stand.

Other than that, what have the Romans ever done for us?

35 posted on 08/16/2018 8:36:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

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.


36 posted on 08/16/2018 8:38:02 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: FreedomPoster
That said, I rather enjoyed driving in rural Tuscany. It was fine.

I'm envious, Tuscany and a few other Italian wine regions are on my bucket list.

37 posted on 08/16/2018 8:41:49 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: gr8eman
"C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again."


38 posted on 08/16/2018 8:43:21 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: from occupied ga

“Instead, it screamed hubris.”

“Actually it kind of screams corruption and mafia based construction firms “

I would say it screamed, “Aaaaaaahhh *crunch*”


39 posted on 08/16/2018 8:46:58 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: poinq
Pompeii has real ruins others are often rebuilt.

Detroit has real ruins, too, but I have no desire to see them...lol.

One of my favorite places to visit when I was stationed in Germany was Trier, which was about a 30 minute drive from my apartment. I'd sit at one of the open air cafes near the Porta Nigra, sipping a glass of wine, just letting the stress evaporate.

At least one Sunday a month, I went the other direction, driving an hour to Koblenz, where I'd have lunch at the Konigsbacher Brewery. Food was great, bock beer was served year round, and you had a great view of the Rhine River.


40 posted on 08/16/2018 8:51:58 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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