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The Worst US Bridges are Getting Fixed - by Brian Potter

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It’s become a common assumption that US infrastructure is in a poor state of repair; that our roads, bridges, pipes, and transmission lines are decaying faster than they’re being repaired or replaced. This concern goes back to the early 1980s, when the book "America in Ruins" was published, triggering concern about America's "crumbling infrastructure.” Today, this belief is reinforced by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Report Card, which grades various aspects of US physical infrastructure and invariably finds that massive investment in rehabilitation and repair is needed. One facet of infrastructure that often gets attention is bridges, particularly when one fails catastrophically. Because transportation in the US is so heavily car-based, bridges are a critical part of transportation infrastructure. The US has more than 600,000 bridges that carry on average more than 8000 cars a day1. Bridges are important enough that a collapsed bridge is one of the few

The Worst US Bridges are Getting Fixed Brian Potter Aug 02, 2023 77 11 4 Share It’s become a common assumption that US infrastructure is in a poor state of repair; that our roads, bridges, pipes, and transmission lines are decaying faster than they’re being repaired or replaced. This concern goes back to the early 1980s, when the book " America in Ruins " was published, triggering concern about America's "crumbling infrastructure.” Google n-gram search for “crumbling infrastructure” Today, this belief is reinforced by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Report Card ,

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