Genoa, A26 section closed for checks on two viaducts. Collapse viaduct A6, no victims

• De Micheli collapse viaduct on the A6: "Extraordinary plan for Liguria"
• Savona, the witness Daniele Cassol: I was overtaking at 30 meters from the collapse on the A6
• Piedmont, river Po in full. Water reaches the homes
• Bad weather Piedmont: Po above guard threshold, flooded Murazzi. Cardè underwater. Bormida, a missing person
• Bad weather: difficult night in the Savona area, Basque river flood. Still displaced
• Pavia, flood Ticino into a district of the city

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Autostrade per l'Italia announces that starting from 21:30 today, Monday 25 November, the A26 motorway section between the connection with the A10 motorway and the Masone junction will be closed to traffic in both directions. . This measure is taken to allow the execution of technical checks on the Fado Nord and Pecetti Sud viaducts, present in this section. The Management of Tronco will share the results of these checks with the competent bodies. As a result of this closure alternative routes are recommended.

Here is the detail of the measurements. Light vehicles and trucks up to 7.5 tons (excluding buses): for the A26 from the A10 exit at Prà and continue to Masone via the SP 456 of the Turchino. For the A10 from the A26 take the reverse route. Heavy vehicles over 7.5 tons and buses: for the A26 from the A10 use the A7. For the A10 from the A26 diversion obligation on the branch Predosa Bettole, from which, with temporary and progressive outflow, it will be possible to proceed towards Genoa along the A7. Only heavy vehicles with unloading or loading destination in the area connected to this junction may continue to Masone. Long-distance itineraries: for the connections between the A4, A26 and A21 towards Tuscany, use the A21 until the connection with the A1 and from this reach Florence or take the Tyrrhenian motorway via the A15.

The Ligurian governor, Giovanni Toti, and the mayor of Genoa, Marco Bucci, were summoned this evening to the Prefecture of Cov, the operational committee for the provincial road system. For this reason, the press conference announced for 9:30 pm on Aspi's decision to close a section of the A26 for checks on the Fado Nord and Pecetti Sud viaducts was canceled.

Collapse A6, no casualties
"No victims for the collapse of the viaduct on the A6 motorway, swept away by the landslide. The serenity is back in Liguria, now let's roll up our sleeves". The president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, already writes this on his own social profiles. We have worked incessantly on the landslide site to look for feedback on the reporting of a car that could have crashed following yesterday afternoon's crash. Once the checks were completed, the fire brigade officially closed the research confirming that fortunately there are neither cars nor people involved in the collapse. "Surveys and core samples of the deck were carried out by penetrations and research cameras - says the general command of the Corps - And all the mud accumulation zones were probed, as well as the riverbed downstream of the collapse. No vehicle involved" . The brigade, with Usar team, inspected the Snam methane pipeline that passes under the viaduct, verifying "functional integrity". Once the research is completed, the operations for the safety of the riverbed are now underway, given the worsening of the weather conditions expected for tomorrow.

In the morning in Savona, the meeting with the local authorities, the governor Toti himself and the Minister of Infrastructures and Transport, Paola De Micheli. "The state of emergency will intervene as soon as possible," said Ligurian governor Giovanni Toti, after the prefecture meeting in Savona with Infrastructure Minister Paola De Micheli.

"The Liguria Region reiterated the need to extend the state of emergency as soon as possible to the new territories affected by bad weather, including the collapse of the viaduct, but not only because many roads have been interrupted", stressed the president of the Region Toti. "I imagine that all this will be dealt with in the next Council of Ministers - continues Toti - From the first inspections the section of the A6 would be intact in the south direction, the one not affected by the collapse of the viaduct: as soon as all the sensors were installed and the total safety was verified, the motorway will be able to reopen with a single alternating sense ". Toti announced among other things the reopening of the Cadibona provincial road that "by tonight or at the latest tomorrow, going beyond the isolation of the Val Bormida."

De Micheli: "Viaduct reopens only if there is maximum security"
"The technicians are checking for any new landslides and the effects on the other viaduct, which will naturally be re-opened only with maximum safety". Infrastructure minister Paola De Micheli said this after a summit in the Prefecture in Savona with governor Giovanni Toti after the collapse of the motorway viaduct. "A minute after getting out of this emergency, we must give Liguria the utmost willingness for an extraordinary plan for infrastructure safety, because the events of the last few years speak of known but also unknown fragility," the minister added.

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Highway Flowers did not reveal expenditure to Anac
Despite the request of the Anac, the Autostrada dei Fiori - which manages the A6 Turin-Savona section of which a section collapsed yesterday after a landslide due to bad weather - did not reveal the cost of maintenance. This is what emerges from the Anac fact-finding survey of last July concerning the maintenance costs of motorway concessionaires.

Autofiori: new bridge will be built in 4 months
"The Autostrada dei Fiori concessionaire has already started the design and construction process for the new collapsed bridge, with in-situ surveys, the development of engineering activities and the assignment of the works. The timing of construction of the new bridge, single span so as to completely bypass the area subject to the landslide and therefore to disengage from any future movements of the landslide, are estimated at 3, maximum 4 months, once the availability of the areas and all authorizations have been obtained ". This was stated in a note by the Autostrada dei Fiori company, talking about the times of reconstruction of the collapsed viaduct on the A6 Torino-Savona.

Ponte Morandi Victims Committee: "The government protects Italy"
"By pure chance and by immense fortune no other innocent people have died, and there are no other relatives sunk in grief; citizens must be protected. We want a serious commitment from our Government and Parliament so that our country is secured and every trip does not become a Russian roulette ". He asked the Egle Possetti government, president of the Committee, remember victims of the Moranti bridge. "For us yesterday it was like going back 15 months and left us once again breathless," he adds.

Prime Minister Conte: "We monitor all delicate situations"
"There are delicate situations everywhere and we are monitoring, however it seems that the already dangerous situations are thinning out but we must remain vigilant, I am in constant contact with Borrelli, the head of Civil Protection". The President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, said this at the FCA factory in San Nicola di Melfi (Pz). "11 billion euros have been allocated on a multi-year basis, but now we have to spend it, accelerate with the works and construction sites that allow us to counter this hydrogeological instability. We cannot realize today that there is a problem of securing the territory and of hydrogeological instability, that's why already in 2018 I tried to push a lot to adopt the Protect Italy plan at the beginning of this year ". On the situation of bad weather in Piedmont and Liguria, the premier is "in close contact with the Minister De Micheli who is in Liguria". There are "delicate situations in Piedmont, in Liguria. There have been in Calabria, in Campania, everywhere. We are monitoring everything and I - he concluded - I go where absolutely necessary".

Costa: we open construction sites no one is safe
"It is time to open the thousand sites for the safety of the territory, Parliament quickly approves the plan". To say it is the Environment Minister Sergio Costa, in an interview with "Il Messaggero", in which he returns to highlight "the endemic fragility of Italy: 79% of the territory is at risk for hydrogeological instability. None, unfortunately, it can be said to be safe in our country, for this we must do soon. We have worked on a bill, approved by the Council of Ministers and by the Conference of the regions unanimously and scheduled in the Senate: with 'Cantiere Ambiente' we further reduce the times for the opening of construction sites, we support the municipalities with a task force of technicians, we anticipate the expenditure for the design ", underlines Costa. "Parliament, however, must hurry up to approve it, it is important".

"With Germany in difficulty, the economy of the North slowing down and the South in recession, we are asking for an anti-cyclical infrastructure operation that is worth over 60 billion resources, all already allocated. We need to start works, create jobs, connect territories, include people. It is the great priority of the country to be faced with a clear schedule and streamlining procedures. Enough with biblical times to open construction sites ". Thus, in an interview with Repubblica, the president of Confindustria Vincenzo Boccia, according to which with those resources it is possible to "restore the territory".

Cirio: "Government to start construction sites"
Piedmont needs the government, instead of making articles in the newspapers, to start building sites for real. It is not a problem of money, but of bureaucracy, which primarily involves the Ministry of the Environment. The main tragedy is that today we have mayors who cannot even clean the rivers ". This is how the president of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio.

The video of the Fire Department with aerial images




Pavia, flood Ticino into a district of the city
He criticizes the situation of the rivers in the province of Pavia following the wave of bad weather in recent days. During the last night Ticino is flooded in the Borgo Basso district, in Pavia: the water has risen for a few centimeters in via Milazzo, the road that overlooks the river. This morning, civil protection workers and city officials helped residents of the area to leave their homes.

Discomforts everywhere
A thousand isolated people in the Aosta Valley because of the avalanches that led to the closure of some roads; special observed rivers in Piedmont while the Po floods the Murazzi in Turin; still inconveniences in the Savona area, but also problems in Rome, with various floods also on the coast, and in Calabria. Bad weather still rages on different regions and causes numerous problems and inconveniences .

The flood of the Po exceeds the high criticality threshold
The flood of the Po river has exceeded the threshold of high criticality in Valle di Torino. This was announced by the AIPO, the Interregional Agency for the Po river, according to which the ridge will pass through the Piedmontese section to reach Ponte Becca, in the Pavia area , within the next 24 hours. Levels of growth across the entire river. Aipo recommends the utmost caution near the areas facing the rivers and flood plains, which may flood.



Avalanches in Valle D'Aosta, isolated centers
There are about a thousand people isolated in the Valle d'Aosta due to the avalanches that led to the closure of some regional roads. The most critical situations in the Lys valley, where Gressoney-La-Trinité is isolated due to the landslides that loom over the region. In the whole Region, the weather alert is orange.

Sardinia: road closed, railway flooded, schools evacuated
Still alarm and inconvenience in the Sassarese due to the heavy rains. The 131 at the height of the Chiguzzu tunnels was also closed due to flooding, with car traffic diverted to secondary roads. In the hamlet of Caniga the two buildings of the kindergarten and primary school, completely flooded, were evacuated. Stationary trains for the flooding of the Rio Calamasciualle gates of Sassari. The circulation between Sassari and Scala di Giocca, in the Porto Torres - Chilivani section, has been suspended: water, in fact, has completely flooded the tracks making it impossible for trains to pass.