There Are Bridges In U.S. That Are Scored WORSE Than The I-35 Minneapolis Bridge

[Hissyspit]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com:80/id/20102713

Fallen bridge was rated among nation's worst
More than 70,000 bridges across the country rated ‘structurally deficient’

Fact File: I-35W bridge

Location: East of downtown Minneapolis
Year built: 1967
Bridge design: Deck truss with steel multi-girder approach spans
Length: 1,907 ft.
Width: 108 ft.
Height above water: 64 ft.
Number of lanes: Four in each direction
Average daily traffic: More than 100,000

Sources: University of Minnesota, AP • Print this
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Only 4 percent of the United States' high-traffic bridges scored worse than the steel-deck truss bridge in Minneapolis that collapsed into the Mississippi River on Wednesday, according to an analysis of federal records by MSNBC.com.

The Minneapolis' I-35W bridge was at the bottom of the ratings systems, but it was not alone in being flawed in some way.

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, The Associated Press reports.

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[Jacobin]

1. collapsing infrastructure

New Orleans levees, bridges, the list goes on.

Gotta have those foreign military adventures!!

[rucky]

2. Maybe now we won't have our jobs being sent to the Third World

Since the Third World is being shipped to our doorsteps.

[tom_paine]

3. Something else I have been proved sadly correct about since 2001

when saying such things would trigger a humongous heap of scorn back then and will do the same this very minute (albeit the heap of scorn is only VERY LARGE now).

I used to say "Welcome to Amerika, the richest Third World Country on Earth."

and

"On every level, social, economic, journalistic, our moral standing, our lws, and our very System of Checks and Balances is being transformed into a Third World Totalitarian Nation."

Now, those things which still get me called crazy by a substantial protion of DU (and that number rises to 90% in any mixed crowd of American Imperial Subjects), are all coming true and become so obvious that on DU the level of denial is down from 90% of us to 60% of us.

Of course, as a measure of how bad things are and how obviously shit has to be smashed into people's faces before they conclude the Bushies' lied about force-feeding them delicious chocolate pudding, before they even have the tiniest ability to comprehend history or it's trends or it's "red flags", the level of deniaql, has also gone down...from 99% to 95%.

Sorry, we're fucked, and if we want a true measure of who is responsible for the coming horrors of Third World living, all any of us have to do is look in a mirror.