Though alternative transportation routes were established, Mr. Bucci said that one study had calculated the additional costs — “due to pollution, time, gasoline consumption, loss of business” — at around €6 million a day.It helped that the reconstruction of the bridge became a national priority, so procedures were streamlined. Mayor of Genoa and Commissioner overseeing the bridge reconstruction Marco Bucci said after the demolition June 28 that until the bridge gets its official name, it will be temporarily referred to during the phase of construction carried out by PERGENOVA as The "Pergenova Bridge." new genoa bridge designed by renzo piano to be completed by april 2020 UPDATE (may 23, 2019): rebuilding the genoa bridge that collapsed and killed 43 …
“No matter how desperate things appear, no matter how sad the future we are facing, it shows that working together we can overcome everything.” Genoa, 1 October 2019 – This morning at 10:10 a.m., two huge cranes, already used to dismantle the Morandi Bridge, lifted on Piers 5 and 6 the first span of the new viaduct, 50 meters long and with a weight of 500 tonnes, about 50 meters above the ground.
This is an example for the city of Genoa, for our history,” said Marco Bucci, the mayor of the city and the government-appointed “extraordinary commissioner of reconstruction” for the bridge, a position that provided the clout to snip through lots of red tape.There was only one case of coronavirus at the bridge site, a worker who operated a modular transporter, originally from Bergamo, Mr. Bono said, and 22 people who had been in contact with him were immediately isolated. (Go Italy! And its completion in record time has become a source of national pride.An investigation into the causes of the collapse revealed shortcomings in the day-to-day maintenance and in public oversight of Italy’s aging infrastructure. Nearly two years after 43 people died when a bridge collapsed, its replacement, built in record time, has become a symbol of Italian can-do.And that was before the coronavirus struck.“Renzo Piano said the bridge should last 1,000 years,” Mr. Bono said. The disaster left Genoa effectively split into two, throwing the lives of its residents into disarray.“As far as we are concerned, the bridge is accessible, albeit only on foot,” said Fincantieri’s chief executive, Giuseppe Bono, during a streamed news conference with Italy’s Foreign Press Association on Monday.When you have power to make things happen, Mr. Bucci said, “you just do it and it works.”Reopening the bridge will have a huge effect on the city, hobbled by the loss of one of its principal connections. Bucci, the mayor, was more pragmatic.“At the start, there was a lot of skepticism,” he conceded. “There’s no reason it shouldn’t.”The previous bridge, designed and built in the 1960s by the man for whom it was named, Riccardo Morandi, “had not taken into account a future increase in traffic,” he said, and the wear and tear on the structure contributed to its collapse.The sensors will allow officials to see how the bridge is responding to traffic flows, and assess what that will mean for the future, said Mr. Bono, and the technology should provide additional security.The new bridge, budgeted at 200 million euros or about $216 million — and presumably the first to be constructed under the constraints of social distancing — will reunite the city and allow many Genoese to go back to living more normal lives. “Fincantieri will have the leadership of the reconstruction, together with a group of companies that will also include Autostrade,” he said.“The port of Genoa generates 1.5 percent of Italy’s gross domestic product ... we have to focus to give the bridge back to Genoa and its citizens,” said Toti, who is a member of the conservative, opposition group Forza Italia! Workers — masked and gloved — were tracked and their contacts monitored, and social distancing was imposed.From Genoa, “a new light shines, giving hope to all of Italy,” said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who traveled to the city for a ceremony as the final, 150-foot section was put in place, setting the stage for the bridge to open to the public sometime in late July.Yet on Tuesday, the last section of the deck that forms the main structure of the new bridge was hoisted into place, completing a 3,500-foot-long spine that remains to be covered in concrete and then finished with a layer of asphalt.“My presence here today shows that the state never abandoned Genoa,” Mr. Conte said at the ceremony.Italy was the site of the first coronavirus outbreak in Europe, and it was initially hit harder than any other country on the Continent, but even that did not halt construction.