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…So Autostrade changed to soli 2 years the judgment in the official reports
In the 2009 Motorways for Italy “has repeatedly provided guarantees” about the “presumed old age” of the structure, That “it just needs, like all works of a certain importance, of constant ordinary maintenance”. In the 2011 the work is described, Instead, come “subjected to enormous stress” and for this reason “subject to continuous maintenance for years”. The evolution in two subsequent reports from the company that has the concession for the viaduct
Of Marco Pasciuti
An infrastructure characterized in 2009 and "absolute safetye stability“, on which the company "has repeatedly provided guarantees". That's just two years later, In the 2011, is described as being afflicted with “intense degradation” and has therefore been “the subject of a for years continuous maintenance“. It's the way in alone 24 months the judgment of Motorways for Italy on the Morandi bridge, collapsed yesterday in Genoa causing the death of at least 37 people.
The theme is that of the construction of Western Gronda, new motorway section capable of guaranteeing the doubling of the existing A10 in the section crossing the municipality of Genoa, from Val Polcevera to the town of Vesima. A link road that is part of the project to improve the traffic of the capital, intended for projects Apsi – which has the A10 motorway under concession, she takes care of its maintenance and has come under fire in the hours following the tragedy – to “improve traffic conditions on the existing network”, “support economic growth”, “improve the road safety” and “offer an alternative to the only Ligurian motorway axis”. A topic that triggers a bitter political confrontation, which merged nine years ago into a participatory democracy project: il public debate held in the capital between February 1st and 30 April 2009.
In the "declaration” official with whom he contributed to the dated trial 29 maggio 2009, Motorways for Italy states that the work does not present structural problems: “On several occasions during the debate the topic of presumed old age of the Morandi viaduct – we read in the point 2.1.2.5, in the second part of the final report – Aspi several times provided guarantees on the absolute safety and stability of the work, which, after having undergone major extraordinary maintenance in the 1990s, it just needs, like all works of a certain importance, of constant ordinary maintenance with standard costs (circa 250.000 euros per year)”. And in support of the thesis the compilers attached an investigation by the following page of the report 19th century, in which an interviewee – a certain “engineer Meta” – reports that “the viaduct it's not dangerous. After the interventions of the nineties, my opinion is that it could work on others one hundred years“.
Just two years later the optimistic tone dissolves into the gloomy picture drawn in the General Synoptic Report of the Environmental Impact Study of the Genoa Road and Motorway Junction, dated maggio 2011. In which, among the various possibilities, the company is also taking into consideration the demolition of the bridge: “The volume reached by traffic causes a intense deterioration of the structure, as subjected to enormous stresses. The viaduct has therefore been the subject of a controversy for years continuous maintenance“. Topics raised by various parliamentary questions. What is the “achieved volume of traffic” that causes these problems? “The Polcevera viaduct (Morandi Bridge)”, “the stretch busier” of the local motorway network “with 25,5 million transits per year” is “characterized by a quadrupling of traffic in the last few 30 years and destined to grow, even in the absence of intervention, of a further one 30% in the next ones 30 years".
Source: The Daily Fact