Posts Tagged ‘bridge collapse. infrastructure spending’

Prediction: Calls to spend billions on crumbling bridges …

May 24, 2013

Six years ago (August 1, 2007), the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis —  an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that handled 140,000 cars daily – collapsed during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.

The NTSB cited a design flaw as the likely cause of the  the catastrophic failure.

Last night, a section of a bridge along Interstate-5 in Washington State collapsed.

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Here’s the good news and the bad news …

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