In reply to 1a1nC:
> Thanks for the info guys,
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> " I don't think Monte Albano is closed,
> Lots of notices now - on the sign posts in the town, on the notice board in the picnic / bouldering area and then someone has taken all the signposts off the path to so you have to blunder about in overgrown scrub and bushes to try find the start,
It's a combination of arguing over who pays for repairs and the issue that as soon as someone reports a fault to the people who commissioned its construction then if they do not "react" to check that safety is still OK, then they become criminally liable in the case that any subsequent accident can be attributed to the unsafe state of the ferrata. Their only option other than repair is to "close" it. So then anybody who does go up is taking their own chances.
Very stupid and typically modern. In the future there will be no ferratas or climbing, just TV.