Showing posts with label More Than 70000 American Bridges Rated "Deficient". Show all posts
Showing posts with label More Than 70000 American Bridges Rated "Deficient". Show all posts

Friday, August 03, 2007

More Than 70000 American Bridges Rated "Deficient"

That's the word on this AP story- and that was the same rating that the ill-fated I-35W bridge in Minneapolis had- deficient.

States and municipalites have had to make do with less and less Federal funding as more of the latter goes elsewhere (Iraq- etc.).

American infrastructure continues to age and fall apart with less money per capita spent year after year. Now citizens like you and I are dying.

Are you just a tad angry? Yet?
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