They will be maintained and strengthened for greater road safety. Five bridges in Monza will soon be restyled, as provided for by the recently approved budget variation, with an investment of 1 million and 445 thousand euros (destined for bridges, underpasses and road infrastructures).
The bridges in question all pass over the Lambro and Lambretto. Four of them are in the city center: those of via Visconti (just after the intersection with largo Mazzini), via Aliprandi, via Zanzi and via Annoni. The only one in the suburbs is the one on via Fermi which goes towards via Monte Santo, in an area between the San Donato and San Rocco neighborhoods. The works will consist of ordinary maintenance interventions due to the advancing age and wear of the structures, not their unusability. Among these, the one in a most critical situation is the one on via Visconti, which will therefore be the first in order of the program. The need to intervene on these five bridges arose from the investigations carried out by the municipal offices, which ascertained a wear and tear that they want to prevent from degenerating into situations like the one that affected the Colombo bridge during the Covid pandemic, for which it was necessary to proceed with an immediate closure and emergency interventions that lasted as many as four years.
In this case, work is expected to last a few months for each bridge, one after the other: a short duration prompted by the fact that these are points of passage of intense vehicular traffic, so the aim is to have construction sites with very rapid timing. The council expects that the tender will be put out to tender by the end of this year and that the first works could begin in the first months of 2025. “The resources to finance these maintenance works come partly from the municipal budget and the rest from the Lombardy Region – clarifies the councilor for Heritage Egidio Longoni -. They are the result of those reconnaissances made also following what happened on Italian tragedies years ago. From there all the Municipalities, including ours, have implemented monitoring on the bridges, starting from the Colombo bridge, which was then closed”.
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