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Current Road and Bridge Conditions, Travel Trends and Traffic Congestion
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Thirty-three percent of America’s major roads are in poor or mediocre condition.
• Twenty-six per cent
of America’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
In a a recent study the NHTSB concluded that road and bridge failures would begin to become common place short of a massive reordering of government priorities to address the situation with the billions of dollars in tax money being directed elsewhere. Seventy per cent of the bridges on the interstate system, and this includes on-ramps, off ramps, and overpasses are "structurally deficient or obsolete." Dangerous highway and bridge conditions from a combination of weather deterioration, corrossion, fatigue from constant use require a massive reordeing of financial priorities. What we saw yesterday in Minnesota is merely the tip of the iceberg. Try thinking about this the next time you drive upon or under a freeway overpass. In concert with the deterioration of the urban insrastructure as we witnessed recently with the bursting of ancient pipeline in New York City we certainly are handing our children a wonderful legacy. But hey don't sweat it. Don't beleive your lying eyes. As long as we got billions for the bomb makers who cares about billions for rebuildling?
In a a recent study the NHTSB concluded that road and bridge failures would begin to become common place short of a massive reordering of government priorities to address the situation with the billions of dollars in tax money being directed elsewhere. Seventy per cent of the bridges on the interstate system, and this includes on-ramps, off ramps, and overpasses are "structurally deficient or obsolete." Dangerous highway and bridge conditions from a combination of weather deterioration, corrossion, fatigue from constant use require a massive reordeing of financial priorities. What we saw yesterday in Minnesota is merely the tip of the iceberg. Try thinking about this the next time you drive upon or under a freeway overpass. In concert with the deterioration of the urban insrastructure as we witnessed recently with the bursting of ancient pipeline in New York City we certainly are handing our children a wonderful legacy. But hey don't sweat it. Don't beleive your lying eyes. As long as we got billions for the bomb makers who cares about billions for rebuildling?
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