Humerus posted:

I saw an interview with a rally driver where he basically said he thought of people on the track as any other obstacle. He said if he thought of them as actual people he wouldn't drive as well.

D1Sergo posted:

capitalism.txt

hobbesmaster posted:

capitalism.txt would be running them over

rndmnmbr posted:

If you deliberately stand in the path of a race car and get hit, you deserve what you get.

Scott Forstall posted:

this is supernatural.

Say Nothing posted:

quote:

In December 2012 Giovanni Calvini, president of the local branch of the General Confederation of Italian Industry, Confindustria, gave a prophetic end-of-tenure interview to Genoa’s local newspaper, Il Secolo XIX.

He was generally frustrated with local authorities blocking reform and investment in infrastructure. He had one project on his mind in particular.

“In ten years the Morandi Bridge will collapse, and we will all have to queue for hours, and we will remember the name of whoever said ‘no’ [to the Gronda bypass plan],” he said.

quote:

The day the Calvini interview was published the Genoa council held a debate.

Councillor Paolo Putti was furious.

“I take this opportunity to express my feeling of anger… and I must also say a bit of amazement,” he said.

In 10 years, Putti said, far from ruing a bridge collapse, entrepreneurs would instead wonder why they had squandered €5 billion ($7.8 billion) on the bypass.

He said the bridge could stand for another 100 years.

He pointed out that thousands were opposed to the bypass, and “we are the strong and Calvini and others are the weak”.

Putti was the local leader of the 5-Star Movement, M5S, the coalition partner to Salvini in Italy’s new government.

quote:

M5S in Genoa has consistently pushed back against the Gronda bypass, which it called useless, harmful and unnecessary.

In April 2013 M5S’s ‘No Gronda’ committee posted a statement on the party website saying they had been regularly told a “tale of the imminent collapse of the Morandi Bridge” but it was a “favolette” – a fairy tale. On Tuesday, the statement mysteriously vanished from M5S’s website.

quote:

Italy’s spending on road maintenance fell by 12 per cent in the first five months of the year, according to media reports, and Italy has one of the lowest levels of roadworks in Europe.

But neglect of Italy’s roads began long before the current administration.

By the end of 2017 about 5000 kilometres of provincial roads were closed or unusable, Corriere Della Sera reported, and more than half the network had reduced speed limits due to unsafe road surfaces.

Officials were even unable to close some dangerous roads or reduce the travel speed because they couldn’t afford the road signs.

Memento posted:

Surely the rest of Italy is fine and this was an isolated incident, right?

quote:

Italy’s spending on road maintenance fell by 12 per cent in the first five months of the year, according to media reports, and Italy has one of the lowest levels of roadworks in Europe.

Duke Chin posted:

https://i.imgur.com/BgxxPbV.mp4

Brakes are hard

NBC NEWS posted:

Videos recorded right before a pedestrian bridge collapsed near Florida International University earlier this year show a construction crew using a jack to tighten the rods that ran through a concrete support truss — work that might have caused the walkway to fall down.

Memento posted:

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/R0YGnKf.mp4

TjyvTompa posted:

AvE has a video out on the bridge collapse in Italy, posting it here so Sagebrush doesn't miss it, heard he's a superfan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwf4_bXOc0

Say Nothing posted:

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

group B was nuts and i don't mean that in a good way

schmug posted:

Speaking of bridges.... I can't remember if it was this thread or the CCT thread, but someone mentioned this one might have collapsed during tensioning.

Sorry, can't find a non-embedded video yet so you have to click the link, but keep your eye on the guys standing on the top of the bridge by the crane. OOPS.





Nailed it.

Memento posted:

That bridge in Italy has a pretty damning history.


The new government at the time had a few choice things to day about that


Hmm, I wonder if they're sticking to their guns on this one




Surely the rest of Italy is fine and this was an isolated incident, right?


Well poo poo.

There's some more stuff about how a massive increase in heavy trucks since the EU can also be apportioned some of the blame, and some stuff about how the EU had put off assisting Italy with funding the bypass but when this all comes out in the wash there could be multiple political careers torpedoed.

Mr. Apollo posted:

A photo taken a week before the collapse, after the prefabbed bridge was placed onto the support pillars.

Say Nothing posted:

Coughing Hobo posted:

I'm the guy standing there with no reaction, thinking to myself "good, you deserve this, greg"

Hedenius posted:

Holy poo poo! I'm no bridgeologist but that looks like someone involved should go to prison.

Zil posted:

I think in the GBS thread when it first happened there was a goon posting who worked at that engineering company. Wonder what they are doing now?

Otteration posted:

Stolen from the gif thread in PYF:

https://i.imgur.com/ChcInTp.gifv

Dillbag posted:

https://i.imgur.com/hNeX9RG.mp4

Otteration posted:

Stolen from the gif thread in PYF:

https://i.imgur.com/ChcInTp.gifv

FuturePastNow posted:

Austerity is a crime against civilization.

ncumbered_by_idgits posted:

I love this man.