Genoa bridge, the San Giorgio open to traffic. Horn concert - Chronicle

Genoa, 4 August 2020 – After yesterday’s inauguration and the latest checks, in the evening – every 22, two hours later than expected – the Genoa-San Giorgio viaduct, on the A10. Before, for everything to be perfect, the workers intervened to redo a small section of asphalt.

Now the west and east of the city are ‘sewn together’ from the 1067 meters of the new bridge that replaced the Morandi, which collapsed on August 14, 2018. To remove the barriers, Francesco and Claudio, auxiliaries to the roads.
And the first cars crossed the bridge in the west direction, honking horns. Someone sketches one “V” of exultation with the hand. And on a scooter the flag of Genoa flies, the same cross of Giorgio, red on a white field, which gives the bridge its name.
The reopening of the bridge is slipped due to two dips provoked in the asphalt by some structures set up yesterday for the inauguration ceremony. But after 10 p.m., in a few minutes, the flow became regular, with traffic flowing in both directions.

Green light

The signal came from the operations center of reels a few seconds before 10pm. At that point two luminous signals located on the arch of the Coronata tunnel, they went from red to green simultaneously, as if it were the starting line of a Grand Prix. That was the signal: Aspi’s staff removed the two barriers that closed the lanes: the stretch of A10 that connects the west and the east of the city, inaugurated yesterday and finally complete, has been reopened.

The tricolor bridge

The Coronata tunnel, illuminated by day, 500 meters of white panels and luminous signs, led the caravan, guided by the Polstrada safety car, to the illuminated bridge with the Tricolor. It was at that moment that the cars began to pass on the two two carriageways, celebrating with horns the newly found bridge that overlooks, like the bridge of a large ship, on the night Genoa and its port, fully illuminated.
The traffic police and Aspi staff traveled the kilometer and a half of the road with a long caravan of journalists to the Genova Ovest toll booth, which seemed to be stormed both at the entrance and the exit. Many Genoese who did not want to miss the moment, as if that rediscovered bridge was a great collective achievement.

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Bruno, queuing for hours

“I come from Bolzaneto, look I have lived the whole history of the bridge, you know? I hope everything is fine, that everything lasts. Pass over it? I think I will get goosebumps. I will be among the first, behind the police “. These are the excited words of Bruno, who on board his street bike was among the first to queue – already in the early afternoon, on the ramp of the A10 heading east to the entrance to the Airport exit to cross the new San Giorgio viaduct upon reopening.

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