Verona and the Ponte Nuovo closed to traffic, the controversy that divides the city
the bridge of sighs, and will continue to be so until April 2022 (at least: because then the works will go on for a couple of years). The Ponte Nuovo, in Verona, instead of uniting the center with the first suburbs, is dividing the city into two factions. Since last Tuesday closed to car traffic, because it is old, run down and needs to be refurbished. And the Veronese split up. “It was about time – say the people in favor – from 1946 to today nobody put their hand to it, there will be damage, do we want to wait for it to crash? Do you remember the Morandi bridge in Genoa??
The boat trip
The mayor, Federico Sboarina, so he decided to take a… boat trip, or rather on a rubber dinghy, to show journalists, photographers and cameras how bad the arches are. And they are really male: concrete beams are almost completely free of iron covers, impressive corrosion of the longitudinal reinforcement bars, carbonization of the reinforced concrete and corrosion of the steel reinforcement bars. But why intervene right now? Because, explain the mayor and deputy mayor, the waters of the Adige are in a lean period, and when the spring rains begin there is the risk of having to work … the divers. But the traffic? In fact, during rush hour, you have to take a longer tour, passing by the Navi bridge, with clogging z notable sections.
After April
“But if we had worked in the spring, they reply from Palazzo Barbieri – beyond the possible floods of the river, he would have told us that we were ruining the spring Easter”. What about missed warnings? “The first press conferences and newspapers in August, and TV had explained the phases”. And then, of course, there is the electoral campaign. With Tosi shooting at zero elevation (“A crazy construction site, it had to be done during the lockdown and instead it did it now without notifying anyone”) and Sboarina who replicates hard-nosed (“The works postponed for years when he was mayor, we have been studying the intervention for two years and now it must absolutely be done, if we do not want to risk a tragedy”). This phase lasts until April. But then, in fact, the works will continue (but with closures only in certain periods, and significant problems only in the final phase, when the entire bridge will be “raised” for the anti-seismic arrangement, and will be a month of absolute block. But it will happen in 2023. There is time to discuss.
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November 26, 2021 (change November 26, 2021 | 16:36)
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