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I hate sicilians
Comment by Cultural-Debt11 at 10/03/2025 at 18:09 UTC
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Also geological fault widening the gap by 2-3mm per year.
Comment by tsimen at 10/03/2025 at 18:30 UTC*
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Trust a dutchie to know the depth of the ocean at every coast everywhere
Comment by Elasmobrando at 10/03/2025 at 18:14 UTC
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Messina_earthquake
Comment by cuore_di_fagioli at 10/03/2025 at 22:00 UTC
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The traffic also wouldn't justify the extreme cost of building and maintaining such a huge bridge. Sicilian exports can still be ferried by sea, the only major Sicilian exports are olive oil, wine and maybe lemons, low value goods with a relatively long shelf life.
Basically no industry or resources there. Everything gets shipped to Genova and then continues on rail from there.
Tourists mainly arrive by plane and the bridge would have to be suspended, easily the largest ever built. Ideally also carrying rail traffic.
On top Sicilian infrastructure isn't great, there would have to be huge investments in that area first.
Maybe this will happen someday but it's just not necessary at the moment.
Comment by IAmARobot at 10/03/2025 at 23:26 UTC
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y not called siseriousans?
Comment by fartew at 11/03/2025 at 11:07 UTC
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And yet we've spent money on making a project for it. Peak italian public spending
Comment by mogg1001 at 11/03/2025 at 11:20 UTC*
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Water is very deep so can’t build foundation
The deepest point below the Golden Gate Bridge is 113 meters[1], this bridge would be doable depth-wise.
1: https://bayareatelegraph.com/2023/11/07/how-deep-is-the-water-under-the-golden-gate-bridge/
The sole reason is this.[2] The Strait of Messina is prone to horrible earthquakes. Yet, once again, the Golden Gate Bridge has endured earthquakes of a similar magnitude[3], so I don’t know why they won’t build a bridge.
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Messina_earthquake
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake