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Just got news that the renown Ponte Morandi bridge (also known as the Polcevera viaduct) at the shore of Genova (crossing a railroad and and industrial park) collapsed at noon during a thunderstorm. There are reports of many deaths, it was a pretty frequented road, a four lane highway towards France. The bridge was constructed in 1968 from reinforced and pre-stressed concrete.
I hope nobody here got hurt or lost someone close.
The bridge is already removed in Openstreetmap, very fast editing.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.42626/8.88811
When I first saw the pictures of the collapsed bridge, I remembered driving over its virtual counterpart in ETS2.
There is also an identical bridge by the same engineer Riccardo Morandi in Venezuela, so investigating the cause of the collapse could really save lives in the future.
A bridge made during the same decade from prestressed concrete collapsed in my hometown a few years ago. The constructions of that period have the tendency to a very bad case of corrosion now, the technology of pre-stressed concrete was still new and people learned a lot about its long-term behavior later.
I hope nobody here got hurt or lost someone close.
The bridge is already removed in Openstreetmap, very fast editing.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.42626/8.88811
When I first saw the pictures of the collapsed bridge, I remembered driving over its virtual counterpart in ETS2.
There is also an identical bridge by the same engineer Riccardo Morandi in Venezuela, so investigating the cause of the collapse could really save lives in the future.
A bridge made during the same decade from prestressed concrete collapsed in my hometown a few years ago. The constructions of that period have the tendency to a very bad case of corrosion now, the technology of pre-stressed concrete was still new and people learned a lot about its long-term behavior later.