Talk:Riccardo Morandi/Archive 1

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proposal of editing about Wadi el Kuf Bridge paragraph
Please consider the opportunity to change in the way below, or similar, about the upgrade information/no real information on the bridge status:


 * Morandi's similar but smaller Wadi el Kuf Bridge, in Libya, was reportedly closed for safety reasons after inspections identified potential fractures in the bridge in October 2017, and no news about the bridge follow after this report. At 17 august 2018, anyway, some professional photos on commercial picture site seems to report that bridge is open to vehicle traffic.  At october 2018, with internet search, not further informations seems to be accessible  about the Wadi el Kuf Bridge status (if is open or closed, or about the exactly entities of claimed problems on the structure).

best regards, --31.157.26.73 (talk) 16:03, 28 October 2018 (UTC)


 * See also Talk:Wadi el Kuf Bridge --37.180.117.63 (talk) 08:44, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

on 8 august 2018 alert for danger (?)
there is (virtually?) another info about the bridge status; it seems that on august 8 "...the mayor of Beida in northeastern Libya had reported the danger and imminent risk of collapse of the bridge on Wadi al-Kuf, to the government of Tripoli", by writing a letter of alert to the local government;

Source about this: https://newsbeezer.com/italyeng/ponte-morandi-the-twin-in-libya-closed-in-october-for-imminent-danger-of-collapse/ (this site quote as source the italian website https://www.tpi.it/2018/08/16/ponte-morandi-libia-chiuso/, which it seem to report the same date/hour of pubblication - august 16, 07.23 vs. 07.34 - of another italian website about this "news" https://www.agi.it/estero/ponte_morandi_libia-4272267/news/2018-08-16/ , by the journalist Mr. Brahim Maarad)

Moreover, the day after (17 August) this news - with a video - is quoted by the Italian Rai television, on its website (Italian language) http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/media/Libia-viadotto-Wadi-al-Kuf-ponte-costruito-da-Morandi-a-rischio-crollo-gemello-ponte-crollato-Genova-18a5cc52-a278-40f3-9411-aa86ad326f32.html, but still, no precise source - and consequences - of the letter of the Major of beida is present.

So... can anyone say more about "the letter", and what happened in the bridge-status after this?? They had close it (again), or not?

and now? is open or closed? what exactly about the supposed damages and dangers?

--151.38.142.188 (talk) 20:33, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Bridge was open again (since?) 27 october 2017
A source about bridge open again on 27 october 2017:
 * "Cracked Beida road bridge declared safe" https://www.libyaherald.com/2017/10/27/cracked-beida-road-bridge-declared-safe/

And a recent post, on the same website where information of 25 october 2017 closure was reported, which seem to show pictures of cars running on the (open) bridge on november 2018:
 * "East Libya Landscape" https://www.libyaobserver.ly/life/east-libya-landscape

So.. may be that bridge now is open, and since from 27 october 2017, after 2 days of closure for alert? (Still no info about consequence about the 8 august 2018 security alert.) --151.18.225.82 (talk) 21:59, 10 November 2018 (UTC)