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Italy approves controversial bridge tying Sicily to mainland (www.dw.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This bridge is actually a big deal in terms of economic prosperity for Sicilians. It's also very technically challenging if not necessarily the longest bridge to build. The area is seismically active, regularly battles high winds, and the strait is rather deep for how narrow it is.

So to reach the sea floor you need to submerge your span supports nearly 250 meters in choppy, fast-flowing water while also leaving enough room for regional shipping traffic. If you want to avoid that and build a suspension bridge--then it would surpass the current longest by 4,000 meters and you're then battling the wind and seismic activity.

Then there's the additional logistical issue of making sure corrupt southern italian mafioso don't hoover up construction contracts and bleed the project dry of funding.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The bridge isn't even 4000 meters long, how would it surpass the longest suspension bridge by that amount?

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

Just a typo. 400 meters*

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As the article states, the distance between Italy and Sicily is around 2 miles (3 km), which makes this bridge unimpressive in terms of overall length, as there are hundreds of bridges longer than that. The article claims this would be the world's longest bridge, comparing it to Çanakkale 1915 Bridge, which isn't the world's longest bridge, but rather the bridge with the longest unsupported span at 2 km. There's no artist rendering of the proposed bridge, and no mention of whether Italy was planning to build this bridge in such a way that the main span would be over 2 km. This distinction means the difference between unremarkable, or modern engineering marvel.

[–] elmicha@feddit.org 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This article has more infos. Or this one. It's meant to be the longest suspension bridge.

[–] raef@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I think i figured it out : not the longest, but if they mean that the span is 3.3 km between towers, that would be the longest span, but not total

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Great—now Scylla and Charybdis can join forces.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love the NATO spending angle on this.

Promise to spend more on military. Build bridge. Call the bridge military. Success.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

It's what Rutte negotiated with Trump: yes spending goes up to 5%, but 1.5% is for infrastructure the military could use, and the rest is for defense spending.