Sopraelevata Aldo Moro
The Sopraelevata Aldo Moro is about five kilometers long, in high position guided city highway along the harbor in Genoa . Their urban sense has been hotly debated for decades.
History and problems
Opened on August 25, 1965 after only one and a half years of construction, the 16-meter-wide elevated road, which is stilted on 210 pillars , connects the Genoese districts of Foce and Sampierdarena . It created a solution, in keeping with the spirit of the 1960s, for the problem of people crossing the old town, but from the 1970s onwards met with a great deal of opposition from cityscape protectors and is often cited as a negative prime example of car- friendly urban planning . It separates the Genoese old town from the historic port.
As a technical problem, signs of fatigue in the steel structure appeared as early as 1977. As part of the upgrading efforts for the Genoese waterfront in connection with the Columbus anniversary in 1992, an access ramp to the Sopraelevata was removed; but leave them intact because of their extremely important traffic function.
Critics continue to call for the elevated road, named after the Italian politician Aldo Moro a few years ago, to be replaced by either a tunnel or a bridge . Since 2003, a tunnel solution has been the most promising. However, for cost reasons, such a redesign is not very likely in the short term.
Web links
- Information about the tunnel (Italian)
Coordinates: 44 ° 24 '27.1 " N , 8 ° 55' 40.2" E