Just two years after part of Genoa's Morandi bridge collapsed killing 43 people, a new structure opens in the port city on Monday, in stark contrast to Italy's stalled infrastructure projects elsewhere.
MILAN - Just two years after part of Genoa’s Morandi bridge collapsed killing 43 people, a new structure opens in the port city on Monday, in stark contrast to Italy’s stalled infrastructure projects elsewhere.
The accident laid bare years of mismanagement and poor maintenance and set off an acrimonious battle between the government and Atlantia’s Autostrade per l’Italia, the private concession holder controlled by the powerful Benetton family which ran the bridge. “There’s a feeling of both regret for what happened and pride in the work that’s been done,” he told Reuters.For years, Italy’s economy has suffocated under a mix of poor governance made worse by corruption and a thicket of vested interests and bureaucracy that have stifled innovation and fostered the kind of neglect that led to the bridge disaster.
As well as the shocking human toll, the collapse of the Morandi bridge dealt a severe economic blow to Genoa, costing the city an estimated 6 million euros a day in lost revenues and additional costs, Bucci said, as it interrupted freight traffic for months.
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