This bridge has been brought up a a few times in the news, so I'm going to have to start a rant about it.

This is a pedestrian-only bridge. And people slip on it almost every day. Every. Day.

The city of Venice is set to replace the glass floor of Santiago Calatrava's Ponte della Costituzione bridge over the Grand Canal with stone due to the high numbers of pedestrians slipping and falling.

The Spanish architect's 94-metre Ponte della Costituzione – Constitution Bridge in English – opened in 2008 and is made from steel and glass.

Who builds a pedestrian bridge that people slip on? People slip on it on an "almost daily" basis. I mean, bridge, you had one job!

Venice's municipal authority has now decided to allocate €500,000 to replace the bridge's tempered-glass treads with trachyte stone in order to make it safer for pedestrians, as reported by the New York Times.

Francesca Zaccariotto, a councillor with responsibility for public works, told the newspaper that the action is intended to prevent "almost daily" falls.

So they're now replacing glass with trachyte.

"Mr Calatrava would be more than happy to work out a proposal pro bono should you be considering this appropriate."

Yeah. Like, I bet, after he had said

the bridge's original glass paving "consisted of an anti-slippery upper surface that complied with all local regulations."

shouldn't the pro bono proposal come with an apology too!?

“The bridge was checked with sophisticated methods” he said in 2008, “which determined that it has a solid structure which is behaving better than expected.”

Well, this does not address the fact that people are slipping on it on an almost daily basis.