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Polcevera Viaduct
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demolished highway bridge in Genoa, Italy
Key facts
- Carried
- Four lanes of roadway
- Crossed
- Polcevera Turin–Genoa railway Milan–Genoa railway
- Locale
- Genoa , Liguria , Italy
- Official name
- Viadotto Polcevera
- Design
- Cable-stayed bridge
- Total length
- 1,182 metres (3,878 ft)
- Height
- Piers 90.5 metres (297 ft), Road Deck 45 metres (148 ft)
- Longest span
- 210 metres (690 ft)
- Clearance above
- 40 metres (130 ft)
- Designer
- Riccardo Morandi
- Opened
- 4 September 1967 ( 1967-09-04 )
- Collapsed
- 14 August 2018 ( 2018-08-14 )
- Destroyed
- 28 June 2019 ( 2019-06-28 )
- Replaced by
- Genoa-Saint George Bridge
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Genoa
- Material used
- prestressed concrete
- Image
- Polcevera da Coronata2.jpg
- Height
- 90
- Length
- 1102
- Significant event
- building implosion
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- Commons category
- Viadotto Polcevera
- crosses
- Val Polcevera
- carries thoroughfare
- European route E80
- inception
- 1963-00-00
- longest span
- 208
- date of official opening
- 1967-09-04
- clearance
- 45
- maintained by
- Autostrade per l'Italia
- located in/on physical feature
- Val Polcevera
- terminus
- Cornigliano
- end time
- 2019-06-28
- architect
- Riccardo Morandi
- number of spans
- 11
- structural engineer
- Riccardo Morandi
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-06-28
- capital cost
- 3800000000
- different from
- Ponte Morandi
- structure replaced by
- Genoa-Saint George viaduct
- native label
- Ponte Morandi
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Encyclopedic overview
Ponte Morandi (English: Morandi Bridge), officially Viadotto Polcevera (English: Polcevera Viaduct) , was a road viaduct in Genoa, Liguria, Italy, constructed between 1963 and 1967 along the A10 motorway over the Polcevera River, from which it derived its official name. It connected Genoa's Sampierdarena and Cornigliano districts across the Polcevera Valley. The bridge was widely called "Ponte Morandi" after its structural designer, engineer Riccardo Morandi.
On 14 August 2018, a 210-metre (690 ft) section of the viaduct collapsed during a rainstorm, resulting in the deaths of 43 people. The collapse led to a year-long state of emergency in the Liguria region, extensive analysis of the structural failure, and widely varying assignment of responsibility.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polcevera Viaduct” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.