According to a meeting protocol
reported on by L'Espresso, the poor state of the Morandi bridge has been known at least since February.
A meeting has taken place February 1, 2018, with the Italian ministry on infrastructure in Rome, the regional ministry in Liguria, and representatives of Autostrade per L'Italia present, plus 7 experts. The topic was the state of the bridge, and planning service works. Everybody present had been informed that the steel ropes' diameter for pilons 9 and 10 had been reduced by up to 10-20% by corrosion, and that their anchoring(?) in the concrete was insufficient.
Despite these deficiencies no action was taken. No reduction of traffic, no limit on the weight per vehicle, no reduction of amount of vehicles, let alone a repair of the above mentioned deficiencies.
Now, from what I understand, Roberto Ferrazza is the head of the national ministry that supervises the roads and their maintenance. He was presiding that meeting, the protocol bears his signature.
Drumrolls please ....
The very same Ferrazza is to head the committee that inspects the collapse and is to determine its cause(s).
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
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| "tuttavia i risultati delle prove riflettometriche hanno evidenziato un lento trend di degrado dei cavi constituenti gli stralli (riduzione d'area totale del cavi dal 10 al 20%)"
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