the incapables
It’s not a movie. It’s real life.
The titbit of the week is about the first results of the inspection of the works related to the fourth bridge on the Grand Canal. A name for its baptism, that has been postponed sine die so many times, should be the incapables’ bridge. Frankly this appellative, that according to the tradition has to follow the name of the designer, is not as evocative as other bridges’, but that is cruel reality: an endless yard on which citizens have to spend a fortune. With a very Italian word that unfortunately lacks in grace, a true “casino” in which technical, civil, penal and, last but not least, moral responsibilities are involved.
The verification is a sort of triumph for the angry citizens, though they are aware of being the ones and only to pay the price for it with their taxes. This ugly and useless bridge – all began with a draft on a restaurant napkin that rapidly turned into a madness story - is a great shame that, evidently, involve also the people who have neither stopped it nor borne all the well-founded criticisms.
this week’s issue of Buongiorno Venezia talks of:
- Calatrava: the hopeless bridge. Supervisory authority has recently published its observations on it.
- Twenty-two Academy nominations for movies screened at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
- Dads’ attack
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