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It's a bit long to translate while typing on a phone, but the main takeaway is that it was build in the sixties with then-novel and not fully understood materia
by frostburg 8y ago
It's a bit long to translate while typing on a phone, but the main takeaway is that it was build in the sixties with then-novel and not fully understood material engineering practices which then forced frequent and expensive extraordinary repairs, to the point that it would soon have been economical to just demolish and rebuild it.
As for people asking why the highway needs to go through Genova instead of around, it's probably the same kind of reasoning that leads to using nuclear bombs to build harbors and the like.
- 24gttghh 8y ago>As for people asking why the highway needs to go through Genova instead of around, Mountains. And a few of the major highways actually go under Genoa, via tunnels.
- rullopat 8y agoA very small piece of land on the sea with a very steep 1000 meters tall mountain next to it, that's why.
- frostburg 8y agoI know, but are you familiar with how terrible it looks, even when it doesn't collapse? Genova hasn't ever been the prettiest city, but still.
- donkeyd 8y agoPeople tend to pick an ugly city over hours of traffic jams in a pretty city.
- toyg 8y agoIt's more that people in Italy like to live and die close to where they were born. Genoa also was a very busy port until relatively recently, which is a natural population magnet.
- sabas_ge 8y agoIt's the biggest port in Italy, and 63rd worldwide. The population increased when the big public industrial complexes were active, now it's declined.