There is a Democrat named Hughes who says it's Bushs' fault, but no matter! Congress is the one who sets up funding for this stuff, and from what I've heard today...they are much more interested in building new than reparing old bridges. As Danzig said...that bridge is 40yrs old and was never meant to hold all the traffic it did yesterday. The new catchword is "redundancy" which means more than 1 beam supporting a truss. Redundancy allows support to bridge in case 1 beam stresse out, the others can bear up! 80-100,000 bridges in US need to be checked....problem is Fed guidelines and state guidelines are used. Feds will build a bridge for you and pay 80% of cost but they insist on being indemnified...so no lawsuits on Feds!
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