General view of the partially completed new Genoa bridge, also known as the Polcevera viaduct, in Genoa, Italy, February 5, 2020. Picture taken February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
GENOA, Italy (Reuters) - Day and night for months on end hundreds of workers have been toiling with cranes, pipes, concrete blocks and steel rods to complete a new bridge in the northern Italian port city of Genoa by a summer deadline.
Forty three people were killed on Aug. 14, 2018, when the old bridge collapsed, hurling cars and trucks to the ground below and prompting national outrage, especially against infrastructure group Atlantia which had operated it.
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