Venice: When tourists roam clearly on the bridge glass floor, the locals continue carefully.
Venice made sure walking on a narrow stone strip in the middle.
“It’s not a bridge,” said Angelo Xalle, 71, a retired port worker who remembers helping people with a damaged chin or the forehead gets up from the slim floor.
“This is a trap.” The bridge, Ponte della Costituzione, by the Star Architect Santiago Calatrava, is the work of the multimillion-dollars of glass and steel which opened in 2008.
The smooth curve above the Grand Canal, close to the Venetian train station, was intended to symbolize the arms of modernity, but had Being better known as the stage to annoy puinous and dangerous slip.
Globally recognized to work including the World Trade Center transportation center in New York, he was assigned to design a bridge in 1999.
When opened nine years later after many delays, complaints about Falls began quickly.
Now, after years of protest and problems, the city has decided to replace transparent glass with less slippery stones – and less glamorous – trachytes.
“People hurt themselves, and they demanded the government,” said a Public Works official of Venice.
“We have to intervene.” City’s decision to allocate ₹ 500,000, or around $ 565,000, to replace the bridge glass section comes after several attempts fail to limit the slip with resin stickers and nonslip.
Venice is not the first city to experience problems with the Calatrava project.
In 2011, Bilbao, Spain, put a large black rubber carpet on a paved Calatrava bridge with glass tiles because so many pedestrians had slipped and fell.
Calatrava faces lawsuits and fine for problems related to bridges but has defended themselves.
“The bridge was examined by a sophisticated method,” he said in 2008, “which determines that it has a solid structure”.
The Calatrava office did not respond to a comment request.
Venice to replace the glass on the Slippery Architect Star bridge
