More than 70,000 bridges rated deficient

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More than 70,000 bridges rated deficient


By H. JOSEF HEBERT and SHARON THEIMER Associated Press Writers
© 2007 The Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.

That works out to at least $9.4 billion a year over 20 years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The bridges carry an average of more than 300 million vehicles a day.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/5023330.html

[Joanne98]

1. K&R! But but the media would rather talk about it.... Than get anything done.

[niyad]

2. most of us have known for years that our infrastructure--ALL of it-- is in drastic need of repair--

but, instead, we are spending billions and billions in foreign interventions. one question-who was governor in 2005 when the MN DOT said the bridge had defects, but didn't actually need repairing?

[Psyop Samurai]

3. My, that inspires confidence, doesn't it?

More than 70,000 bridges rated structurally deficient. And we just find out about this today?

I wonder what the number is for dams. Maybe we'll be lucky, and won't have to find out.

[RL3AO]

4. Its not as bad as it sounds.

Its like yellow on the homeland security...kind of a keep your eye open but no immediate threat.

[Bjorn Against]

5. yeah, there did not seem to be an immediate threat here either

But as we learned the hard way, when there is an immediate threat it truly is immediate.

[TahitiNut]

7. Uh-huh. We save "pre-emptive" actions for invasions of other countries.

Makes sense. :eyes:

[Occulus]

6. We have spent a trillion dollars in Iraq.

Just for comparison.

[23_amai]

8. This story has been white-washed for your safety

If you google the story title, most sites now take you to this sanitized, more bush-friendly story:

US official: Bridge failure 'anomaly'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_re_us/bridge_safety;_ylt=ApsM7uOCa4.yQmaXqH49meBI2ocA